Jennifer Ashworth, soprano, is thrilled to be returning to Clerestory. A California native, Jennifer moved to the Bay Area from the mountains east of L.A. in 1992 to attend UC Berkeley (BA) and Holy NamesUniversity (MM). Jennifer sings regularly with Favolare, Cantata Collective, Pocket Opera, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale, and can be heard on the Lamplighters Music Theater’s recordings of HMS Pinafore, The Grand Duke, and Princess Ida. Jennifer is celebrating 20 years as a teaching artist for the San Francisco Opera Guild and is co-creator of the Guild’s program Sing a Story. She is also the co-founder of Presto! Interactive Opera, which performs children°s Christmas shows for sold-out crowds every year at Grace Cathedral. Most days Jennifer conducts the MAD Band, the middle-school instrumental program she founded in 1998. Jennifer sends love and peace to her family, and all families dealing with trauma.

Von Bringhurst (he/they) is a countertenor and sopranist who moved to the Bay Area in 2018. He holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance degree from the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA, and a Bachelor of Science in Voice from Idaho State University in Pocatello, ID. He enjoys a varied career as a soloist and ensemble member, including Clerestory, Força Chorus, Harvard Early Music Society, the Video Game Orchestra, and Xerces Blue Ensemble, and can be heard on a number of video game titles, including Ace Combat, Final Fantasy XV, and Code Vein. Von has been Music Director for the Opera House Theater Company in Philipsburg, MT; The Virginia City Players of Virginia City, MT; and WholeTone Opera of Somerville, MA.

Von is currently soprano section leader at Christ Church Portola Valley and Woodside in Portola Valley, CA. He also directs the Community School of Music and Arts Community Choir in Mountain View, as well as the Peak Performers Choir at Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Fremont. He maintains an active teaching studio based in the Bay Area, as well as working with students virtually across time zones.

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Dan Cromeenes, countertenor, is a versatile musician who has performed professionally as a countertenor soloist, choral singer, and collaborative pianist. A native of southern California, he moved to San Francisco to perform with the ensemble Chanticleer, and has since flourished in the Bay Area’s music scene. He has sung with American Bach, Philharmonia Baroque, Cantata Collective, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Oregon Bach Festival. He serves as staff accompanist at Santa Clara University and Sonoma State University. In addition to his playing and singing, Dan has written multiple choral arrangements that have been performed by Clerestory. When not onstage or behind a piano, Dan can usually be found either on a hike in the mountains or at home baking gourmet goodies.

Anmol Gupta, tenor (he/him), is a Wisconsin-based musician with extensive experience in opera, choral, and chamber singing. Before moving to the Bay Area, Anmol lived and worked in Boston upon graduating from Lawrence University and the Lawrence Conservatory of Music in Appleton, WI. He currently serves as the tenor section leader at St. Paul’s Episcopal in Burlingame and is excited to be joining Clerestory for this program. Outside of singing, Anmol is a PhD student in social psychology at Stanford, where he studies how people think about racism and racial inequality. Anmol lives in Palo Alto with his partner and their dog.

Chris Lewis, bass-baritone, is the founding musical director of the Fog City Singers, a tenor-bass chorus in San Francisco that aims to revolutionize the way barbershop music is performed and appreciated. In childhood, he experimented on the piano, on the risers, and on the stage; yet he first learned to truly appreciate music after multiple years under acclaimed conductors in Texas all-state choirs. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2008, he has performed with a variety of music organizations including choral ensembles (Clerestory, Volti, Stanford Chamber Chorale, Convivium), barbershop groups (Brannigan, Voices in Harmony, Elephants Gerald), contemporary a cappella groups (Stanford Mixed Company, Beyond Zebra), and theater companies (SF Lamplighters, Broadway by the Bay). In Fog City’s first three years, Chris directed them to 9th- and 7th-place finishes in the International Barbershop Chorus Contest and in 2019 directed them as the featured ensemble at the California Choral Directors Association state conference. Chris is also an arranger and composer, and during the pandemic he authored a media-rich “Barbershop Arranging: A Modern Guide” on Medium.com. Chris holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University and by day directs frontend engineering at a supply-chain startup.

Elizabeth Kimble (she/they) is a soprano, composer, conductor, and psychotherapist whose music explores the sacred and psychological aspects of the human experience. A versatile vocalist, Elizabeth has performed as both a soloist and ensemble member with many distinguished choral groups, including the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Cappella SF, Gaude, Volti, and the California Bach Society. Currently the Artistic Director of Musae, a San Francisco-based treble vocal ensemble, Elizabeth has also served as the Music Director of Tactus SF and Assistant Conductor of the International Orange Chorale of San Francisco. She holds a MM in Music Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, dual BMs in Music Composition and Vocal Performance from Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, and an MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. In addition to her musical endeavors, Elizabeth practices as an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and an Associate Professional Clinical Counselor.

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Nathan Stroud, countertenor, is a multi-faceted musician with a passion for early music consort singing. He currently sings with the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys and the Philharmonia Baroque Chorale, and has been performing around the Bay Area as a singer and French horn player since moving to San Francisco in 2014. With a background in architectural acoustics, Nathan loves to bring his expertise in architecture, acoustical fundamentals, and psychoacoustics to tailor his performance technique to the built environment and human auditory response. His Master’s thesis research was on “optimization of orchestral layouts based on instrument directivity patterns” in which he studied the acoustically ideal arrangements of Romantic period orchestras on stage. Outside of performing Nathan stays busy working full time as an Acoustics & Audiovisual Consultant at Arup, a global engineering and design firm, where he leads a broad portfolio of regional and international projects.

Tenor Kevin Baum relocated to San Francisco from Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987 to join the ensemble Chanticleer; he toured with them for sixteen years.  Just a few of the highlights from those years include the role of the Madwoman in performances of Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River, the role of Joseph of Aramethea in the world premier of Sir John Tavener’s Lamentations and Praises, the role of John Q. Public in the West Coast premier of Go for Baroque, a madrigal comedy by Peter Schickele and over twenty recordings, including two that received Grammy Awards.

Kevin is currently a member of the Choir of Men and Boys at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.  He sings many solo and small ensemble concerts throughout the Bay Area.  Ensembles Kevin has sung with include In Other Words, Cappella SF, Endersnight, Philharmonia Baroque Chorale, San Francisco Bach Chorus, San Francisco Lyric Chorus, Marin Baroque, Marin Symphony Chorus and San Francisco Symphony Chorus.  This December Kevin will again perform the role of St. Nicholas in Presto Opera’s annual “Sing You a Merry Christmas!” at Grace.

Kevin is a tatting instructor at Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles in Berkeley.  He has also taught tatting at the San Francisco School of Needlework and Design.

Bass-baritone, Phil Browne, recently relocated to the Bay Area from Washington, D.C., and is delighted to join Clerestory for their November 2025 concert. A native of Columbia, Maryland, Phil currently serves as bass section leader at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco and has appeared as a guest singer with Grace Cathedral, St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Burlingame. Before moving west, he held staff singer positions throughout the Baltimore–Washington area and performed at Washington National Cathedral, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Baltimore Basilica of the Assumption, and the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, among others.

Beyond his vocal work, Phil is also an active freelance French horn player, having performed with the Baltimore Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Virginia Symphony, New World Symphony, New Haven Symphony, and National Philharmonic. He earned multiple performance degrees from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and pursued advanced studies at the Yale School of Music. In addition to his musical pursuits, Phil works as a software engineer at Megaport, a leader in network infrastructure and automation.

Native-American bass-baritone Daniel Yoder is honored to be singing in concert with the Diablo Symphony! A resident of the Sacramento area, he has been privileged to have performed with such groups as the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra, Sacramento Opera, Pocket Opera of San Francisco, Fresno Grand, Opera Academy of California, Schola Cantorum of Sacred Heart Church, the UCDavis Early Music Ensemble, Capella Antiqua, as well as seemingly countless solo and choral engagements throughout the region.

Hailed by the San Francisco Classical Voice for his “powerful” and “accurate” performances, as well as by the Sacramento Press in his ability to deliver “gorgeous solos”, Mr. Yoder has performed the roles of Zurga in Bizet’s Pearl Fishers, Claudius in Handel’s Agrippina, Leporello and Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Betto in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Seneca in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea, Gugliermo in Mozart’s Cosí Fan Tutte, and Schaunard in Leoncavallo’s La Boheme. He has recently added the role of Omar in Weber’s Abu Hassan to his repertoire, as well as the roles of Silvio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, the Sheriff in Flotow’s Martha, Achilla in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, and as Mr. Fogg in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.

In concert, Mr. Yoder has performed the bass solos in the Requiems of Mozart, Duruflé, Fauré, and Malcolm Archer. He has also delighted audiences in singing the bass solos in the venerable Messiah of Handel, the Coronation Mass, Great Mass in C Minor, and the Missa Brevis in F of Mozart, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, and The Seven Last Words of Christ by Theodore Dubois. A lifetime fan of Bach, he has had the pleasure of performing Bach’s Durchlauchster Leopold (BWV 173a) and Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir (BWV 73) cantatas. He has also prepared the Five Mystical Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast for rehearsal with the Sacramento Choral Society.

He has been blessed to have participated in masterclasses with Yefim Maizel while at the Opera Academy of California, as well as with Dr. Joseph Wiggett while he studied voice at California State University, Sacramento while under the tutelage of Dr. Robin Fisher. In demand for both early music and oratorio, Mr. Yoder frequently collaborates with churches, colleges, and his musical colleagues in the musical community to bring beauty and solace to a world so hungry for it.