angelique zuluaga
recording secretary
Soprano Angelique Zuluaga has performed opera, oratorio, and chamber music throughout the U.S. and South America and can be found frequently collaborating with composers in new works. Her voice has been described as “free-floating and unfettered” (Bloomington Herald Times), “dark and delicate” (Indy Star), and “exquisite and expressive voice, capable of a wide dynamic range from the most delicate sotto voce pianissimos to full-voiced fortissimo coloratura passages” (Monterey Herald Times). In 2012 she was hailed by Fanfare magazine as a performer of “gusto and finesse”.
Winner of Indiana University's 2006 Latin American Fellowship, she also holds awards, grants and scholarships for her performance, research and concert programming from the Early Music Institute of Indiana University, The Latin American Music Center of Indiana University, Metropolitan Opera Council, Universidad Del Valle National Art Prizes, and the Embassy of Spain.
Ms. Zuluaga began her singing career in Cali, Colombia, South America where she received her Licenciatura en Músicawith Emperatriz Figueroa as her major professor in voice at the Universidad del Valle . Further studies in music led her to the Jacobs School of Music and Early Music Institute at Indiana University where she completed two master degrees in voice performance and early music.
Jacque Wilson Scharlach
treasurer
Jacque Wilson Scharlach is hailed as a "passionate singer with beautiful warm tones." She has more than fifteen years of teaching experience including three years spent as a musical theater voice faculty at the University of Southern Maine. She is currently on the voice faculty of San José State University and also maintains an active private vocal studio.
Jacque holds a Master's degree in opera performance from The Boston Conservatory and a Bachelor's degree from California State University, Northridge. She has appeared with numerous orchestras and choruses across the country including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Opera and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. She has performed to great renowned on both coasts in opera and musical theatre. Some of her favorite roles include: Meg Page (Falstaff), Meg (Little Women), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Julie Jordan (Carousel), Sarah Brown (Guys and Dolls), and Pitti Sing (The Mikado). She is currently a full time chorister with San Francisco Opera. She believes in teaching a bel canto technique to all her students whether they are singing classical, musical theatre or jazz.
alina ilchuk
newsletter editor
Alina Ilchuk is a Ukrainian-American singer, vocal teacher, and volunteer. She has performed throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada. She has been teaching voice both privately and at the collegiate level since 1995 and is an avid supporter of the development of art education in the world. In the early 2000s, she was one of the initiators and instructors for the Sacramento-based Slavic educational branch of Patten University, which helped immigrants from post-Soviet republics obtain higher education in the USA. She is the founder of the Sacramento Academy of Musical Arts, an award-winning school in the region. Many of her students have become professional musicians and graduates of some of the most reputable universities, conservatories, and music programs; numerous students have become winners of respected voice competitions. Alina Ilchuk serves as a jury member for the innovative art platform "Music" in Kyiv, Ukraine, enjoys academic research, and is a regular presenter at scientific conferences and artistic forums. She volunteers for Ukrainian war-orphan children throughout the San Francisco Charity Foundation “Anhelyk" and advocates for the American-Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation and the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine.
Since 2020, she has been a board member of the SFBAC NATS. Alina Ilchuk received her higher education at the Mykola Lysenko National Academy of Music in Lviv, Ukraine, and the California State University, Sacramento, USA.
SOLMAAZ ADELI
WEBMASTER
Mezzo-soprano Solmaaz Adeli gave her debut at the Vienna Chamber Opera in Albinoni’s baroque opera Il Nascimento dell’Aurora and performs baroque to contemporary opera, concert, and chamber music.
Ms. Adeli received a scholarship to attend the Opera School at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria, and studied privately in Vienna and as an apprentice under Italy’s esteemed director Davide Livermore in Turin.
Voice Academy SOL, founded by Solmaaz Adeli hosts a musical and cultural program Vienna Intensive, voice lessons/masterclasses Sing with SOL, and concerts featuring collaborative performers and the music of living composers Solmaaz Adeli & Friends.