Tenor David Simmons-Duffin graduated with an AB/AM in physics from Harvard, and subsequently spent a year at Cambridge University (UK) studying maths and singing with the Choir of Clare College, under Tim Brown. He is currently in his final year of a PhD in theoretical high energy physics at Harvard. In addition to Clare Choir and Quire Cleveland, David has sung with the Harvard Collegium Musicum, Harvard University Choir, Apollo’s Fire, and Blue Heron. He also enjoys playing Baroque violin, and bungling through The Well-Tempered Clavier.

Sandra Simon is at home performing opera, oratorio, and musical theater. She has performed in the US and abroad with such ensembles as Tafelmusik, Handel & Haydn Society, Memphis Symphony, Red {an Orchestra}, Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, and the King’s Noyse, as well as Opera Atelier Toronto, Cleveland Opera, Singapore Arts Festival, and the Chautauqua Institution. A frequent guest of the Cleveland Composers Guild, she is a core member of Panoramicos, and also a longstanding member of Actor’s Equity. She has recorded for Telarc, Koch International Classics, New World Records, Eclectra, and NPR labels.

Daniel Singer is Director of Choir and Orchestra at University School in Hunting Valley, Ohio. He is also an active arranger and composer, having written for choral and instrumental ensembles throughout the United States. From 2003 to 2009, Daniel worked as a performer, music director, and teacher in the Chicago area. He sang with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and was a vocalist and arranger with the Lakeside Singers. Daniel has a BM in Music Education from Northwestern University and an MM in Choral Conducting from Michigan State University, where he studied with David Rayl, Jonathan Reed, and Sandra Snow.

Tyler Skidmore, tenor, is an active music educator and performer. Teaching now at the same high school he attended, Tyler attempts to share the joys and challenges of choral music with the students at Medina High School. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Mount Vernon Nazarene University and a master’s in voice performance from Kent State University. Tyler has performed with other area choral ensembles, including Opera Cleveland, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus, and Apollo’s Singers of Apollo’s Fire.

Soprano Gail West has worked with such eminent artists as Julianne Baird, Emma Kirkby, Suzie LeBlanc, Paul Hillier, and Benjamin Bagby. Currently a voice student of Ellen Hargis, she has been a member of Apollo’s Fire since its founding. Gail has been a member of CWRU’s Early Music Singers for over 20 years and is a soprano soloist at Church of the Good Shepherd. She lives in Cleveland Heights with her husband and three children.