Studio Spotlight & Scenes in the Wittcoff Concerts

Orchestras
A Concertmaster of the Arizona Opera. A contracted member of the Phoenix Symphony for 2018-19 season. She was a member of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra (1997-2011), the Santa Fe Symphony (2000-2011), the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque (1997-2003), and the Tucson Symphony (2010-2011). Also played with the Musica de Camera Orchestra for the Santa Fe Concert Association (1998-2010), and the Colorado Music Festival (2004). She has been playing Violin and Viola for the Figueroa Project (NM), Violin and Assistant Principal Viola for the Santa Fe Pro Musica and Principal Viola for the Santa Fe Ballet Festival. She was a substitute Violinist with the Shinsei Nihon Symphony and Gunma Symphony Orchestras (1990-1994), Cheyenne Symphony (1995 -1997). Concertmaster for the Saitama Chorus Festival Orchestra (1993), principal second violin for Toshiya Eto Violin Competition Orchestra (1993).

Chamber Music
The NMSO String Quartet and Quintet and had many educational concerts for 2nd and 3rd graders. She was a founding member of the Bella Cosi String Quartet which had many concerts in Albuquerque, was featured on “Lullaby, and Good Night” CD produced by KHFM, and was on Education and Outreach program for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Chamber Music Albuquerque. Ikuko has played Violin and Viola with many other chamber music groups such as Noisy Neighbors, Placitas Artists Series, Albuquerque Chamber Soloists, Church of Beethoven, Sunday Chatter, Chatter A Chamber music series, and Santa Fe New Music.

Teaching
A faculty member of the Playweek West from 2008 to 2010 and Sandia Music Festival in 2012. She has coached orchestra students at the Albuquerque Youth Symphony, Hummingbird music camp, many middle schools and high schools in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, other towns in NM and Phoenix Area.

Education
Born in Saitama, Japan. She began taking private violin lessons at age of four with Tetsu Ikeda, concertmaster of the Shinsei Nihon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. From age six to ten she studied with Angela Eto and Toshiya Eto from six to twenty-two. Mr. Eto was the first Japanese violinist to perform internationally and was a former faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music.

Ikuko holds a Bachelor’s degree in violin performance from the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo and Performers Certificate from the University of Wyoming. She started playing Viola in orchestra and chamber music classes at Toho Gakuen School and later studied at UW with James Przygocki, principal violist of the Cheyenne Symphony.

Studied chamber music with Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, a concertmaster of the NHK Symphony, Mazumi Tanamura, principal violist of the NHK Symphony, Keiko Matsunami, principal cellist of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, and Kazuoki Fujii, a pianist. She also took master classes with Pinchas Zucherman, Gil Shaham, members of the Emerson String Quartet and the Borodin String Quartet.

Auditions and competitions
When Ikuko was thirteen, she won the Saitama Prefecture New Figure Concert audition, performing the first movement of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnore. In the first year at the University of Wyoming she won their concerto competition and performed Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the UW Symphony. While she was at the UW, she also won the third place at the national division of the MTNA competition.

Electric Instruments
A member of the Urban Electra 2013 to 2019. uE is an electric string quartet playing rock and pop music.

American soprano and Phoenix resident Kaitlyn Sabrowsky (nee Johnson) is at home in operatic repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary. Sabrowsky completed two seasons as a Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio Artist from 2018-20, highlighted by back-to-back main stage leading roles as Musetta in La Bohème and Jane Withersteen in Riders of the Purple Sage in the company’s 2020 season. Her Jane garnered praise for her “strong dramatic voice and the kind of acting skills that showed her character’s growth from one scene to the next” (Operawire). Other Arizona Opera role highlights include Miss Lightfoot in Fellow Travelers and Doris Parker in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird. Additional notable engagements include her debut with The Phoenix Symphony and as Frasquita in the Atlanta Opera’s Carmen. Often celebrated on the operatic stage for her "powerful and dramatic soprano," (The Bloomington Herald-Times), Sabrowsky has appeared in such roles as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and the title role in Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas. Kaitlyn Sabrowsky is the recipient of awards from the Orpheus Vocal Competition, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Georgina Joshi International Fellowship from Indiana University and the Farb Family Outstanding Graduate Award from Rice University. She is a graduate of Indiana University (MM) and Rice University (BM, cum laude), and is an alumnus of the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, Aspen Opera Center and Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy. Sabrowsky is currently completing her doctoral degree at Arizona State and is an active voice teacher throughout the Valley, teaching students at Grand Canyon University and privately through the Sabrowsky Song Studio.

"Gotimer is a force of nature on stage… Her soaring vocal range and the depth of her acting establish Juliette as the driving force of the affair." — Broadway World

This summer, Gotimer makes her European debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Deutsche Oper Berlin. She also makes her debut as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro as a Renée Fleming Artist at the Aspen Music Festival, and she covers Musetta in La Bohème with the Bravo Vail Music Festival. Later, in the 2024/25 Season, Gotimer debuts in Pagliacci (Nedda) with Pittsburgh Opera; La fiamma (Silvana cover and La Voce) with Deutsche Oper Berlin; and La Bohème (Mimi) with Arizona Opera.

In the 2023/24 Season, Gotimer made her debut as Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo & Juliette with Arizona Opera, her Palm Beach Opera and Dayton Opera debuts as Tosca, and her Santa Fe Symphony debut as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah. In the 2022/23 Season, Gotimer debuted as Tosca with Arizona Opera, made her Dallas Opera debut as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and joined The Santa Fe Opera's Apprentice Program, where she covered Tosca.

In her residency with the Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio, Gotimer made main stage debuts in Carmen (Micaëla), Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), and A Little Night Music (Mrs. Anderssen). During her tenure as a resident artist with Pittsburgh Opera, she appeared as the title role in Handel’s Alcina, Elettra in a reimagining of Mozart’s Idomeneo, and covered Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème. With Crested Butte Opera Studio, Gotimer performed as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Musetta in La Bohème. Other roles in Gotimer’s repertoire include the title role in Suor Angelica and Magda in La Rondine. In concert, Gotimer was a soloist in Mozart’s Requiem in D minor at the Festival Songe d’été en musique in Québec and Bach’s Missa Brevis in F with Binghamton University.

Gotimer won two top awards in the YPO/Florida Grand Opera Voice Competition and was the district winner of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition. She was a semifinalist in both the 2022 Vincerò Competition and the 2020 Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, a finalist in the 2020 Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s Mildred Miller Competition, the Second Prize and Audience Favorite Award winner at the 2017 Opera Guild of Dayton Competition, the recipient of the Italo Tajo Award in CCM’s 2017 Corbett Competition, and the winner of the 2015 National Biennial Collegiate Voice Competition hosted by NFMC.

Gotimer holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and she received her Bachelor of Music in Voice from Binghamton University.

Recognized for his “impressive singing … well-supported tone and supple phrasing,” (Baltimore Sun) baritone Rob McGinness‘ recent venue debuts include Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. This season Rob joins Arizona Opera as a member of the Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio, performing multiple roles including Schaunard in La Bohème, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos and the lead role in Shining Brow, Darren Hagen’s opera about Frank Lloyd Wright. Other highlights this season include Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra.

Often featured portraying opera’s “bad boy,” Rob’s operatic credits include the title roles in Eugene Onegin and Don Giovanni, as well as Marcello in La Bohème. Rob has made a specialty in Russian repertoire, performing leading roles in Rimski-Krosakov’s Tsar’s Bride, Mozart and Salieri, Snow Maiden, Sadko as well as Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. Other famous roles include Enrico in Lucia, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, a performance lauded for a “bright baritone and winning jitteriness” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

As a featured soloist, Rob performed Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, the Duruflé Requiem with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, and the Brahms Requiem with Portsmouth Pro Musica. Other concert credits include Carmina Burana with Columbia Pro Cantare and Brahms’s Requiem with The Washington Chorus, where Rob’s performance was lauded by the Washington Post for his “warm baritone.”

Committed to promoting and performing new works, Rob regularly premieres new roles, including Ed Wall in Frances Pollock’s award-winning opera Stinney, and Saul Hodkin/Price in The Ghost Train by Paul Crabtree. Rob’s own compositions include vocal, theatrical and orchestral pieces premiered at IngenuityFest, Andy’s Summer Playhouse, and by the Windham Orchestra in Vermont.

Rob holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the Peabody Institute, and was a young artist with Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Teatro Nuovo, and Bel Canto at Caramoor. His awards include first place in the Sylvia Greene Vocal Competition, second place in the Piccola Opera Competition, and the Patricia A. Edwards Award in the Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition. 

American tenor Terrence Chin-Loy, whom Opera News described as having a "beautiful lyric tenor voice” pairs passionate performance with a full, sweet sound. In the 2022/23 Season, Chin-Loy will perform Tamino in The Magic Flute with the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan as well as at Arizona Opera, Don José in Carmen with MasterVoices at Lincoln Center, Old Head 2 and Charlie in the world premiere of Factotum with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Acis in Acis and Galatea with Eugene Opera, and join the roster of The Metropolitan Opera to cover the role of Arbace in Idomeneo. In concert, Chin-Loy joins the North Carolina Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem, and the Boise Philharmonic for a performance of Hailstork’s I Will Life Mine Eyes as well as a residency with the College of Idaho.

Chin-Loy opened the 2021/22 Season in his solo debut at The Metropolitan Opera in Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up In My Bones. Chin-Loy returned to Arizona Opera for his second and final season as a Marion Roose Pullin Resident Artist where he performed Henrik Egerman in A Little Night Music and Ferrando in Così fan tutte and Benny Paret Jr. in Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Champion. In concert, Chin-Loy performed and recorded Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm with the American Symphony Orchestra and Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall.

In the 2020/21 Season, Chin-Loy sang a series of concerts with Arizona Opera as a member of the Studio, and joined the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Twin Stars, a piece by Daniel Bernard Roumain about the shooting of Philando Castile. Chin-Loy also appeared in William Grant Still's Highway 1 as a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre Saint Louis. In the 2019/20 Season, Chin-Loy joined the roster of The Metropolitan Opera as Mingo (Cover) in Porgy and Bess and the New York Festival of Song as a part of the Vocal Rising Stars series at Caramoor.

Chin-Loy 's favorite roles include Idomeneo in Idomeneo: afterWARds (Pittsburgh Opera), director David Paul's retelling of Mozart's masterpiece with the composer's original music, Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (Indiana University), and Younger Thompson in Tom Cipullo's Glory Denied (Pittsburgh Opera, Penn Square Music Festival). Chin-Loy was happy to make his Carnegie Hall debut in Handel's Messiah in the 2018/19 Season.

Chin-Loy is a graduate of Indiana University, where he received a Performer Diploma, and holds degrees from Mannes College and Yale University. At Mannes, Chin-Loy performed the roles of Laurie in Mark Adamo's Little Women and Bill in the New York premiere of Jonathan Dove's Flight with Mannes Opera, and received the Michael Sisca Opera Award, the school's top prize for an opera singer. Chin-Loy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Yale University, where his studies concentrated on Music Theory and Musicology. While at Yale, Chin-Loy was also a frequent performer with the Yale Baroque Opera Project, with which he performed major roles in La Calisto, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and Scipione affricano. Chin-Loy is a 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions National Semifinalist.

Maris Bosworth is a pianist and vocal coach from Owensboro, Kentucky. She enjoys coaching and performing both opera and art song, and she recently performed in the Phoenix area as an Education Teaching Artist for Arizona Opera. Before moving to Arizona, Maris regularly worked with students at the University of Utah and was on staff at Utah Valley University as a pianist and coach for the voice and opera departments. She performed a variety of recital repertoire in the Salt Lake City area and also prepared productions of Roméo et Juliette, Die Fledermaus, and Die Zauberflöte. In 2018, she was a collaborative pianist intern at the Druid City Opera Workshop and a young artist at the Crested Butte Music Festival. Maris has a strong background in promoting arts education and working with young singers. She was a vocal coach for Westminster College’s SummerSong Music Festival for pre-college singers and also worked with high school students at the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. In addition to her outreach work at Arizona Opera, she also performed in Kentucky with the Schmidt Opera Outreach Program as accompanist and assistant musical director for The Adventures of Alice in Operaland. Maris is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received her master’s degree in Vocal Coaching and Accompanying under Dr. Julie Gunn. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from the University of Kentucky.