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Buddy James, Director
East Bay Singers

Buddy James is Professor of Music at California State University, East Bay, where he serves as Chair of the Department of Music. At CSUEB he was the Founding Director of the School of Arts and Media, was the 2015-16 George and Miriam Phillips CSUEB Outstanding Professor, and was the 2022-2023 recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award in the College of Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences. He previously taught at Millersville University of Pennsylvania where he was named Professor of the Year in 2004. He was named the Outstanding Doctoral Graduate in Choral Music at the University of Southern California and was a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California Irvine. He has held leadership positions in ACDA, CCDA, NAfME, and IMC and was a Founding Officer and Past-President of the National Collegiate Choral Organization. His teachers included William Dehning, Joseph Huszti, Edward Maclary, Morten Lauridsen, and Robert Page and he is currently the Artistic Director of Schola Cantorum Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area Chamber Choir. 


The East Bay Singers

Comprised of some of Cal State East Bay’s finest students, each singer must pass a vocal and musical audition to earn a roster position in The East Bay Singers. Performing widely on campus, in the community, on annual tours of California, and internationally as ambassadors of CSUEB, the East Bay Singers have been acclaimed for their sensitive and exciting performances of varied and demanding repertoire. Music critics have rated them among the finest choirs in the San Francisco Bay Area and they have performed with the San Francisco and Oakland Symphony Orchestras, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Composers Inc, and have appeared in conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and California Choral Directors Association. Recent tours have taken them to Mexico, Lithuania, Japan, and New York, including a performance at Carnegie Hall in Spring 2023. The East Bay Singers have also performed several world premieres of major choral works composed specifically for them, including P.D.Q. Bach’s Liebeslieder Polkas, which Peter Schickele “discovered” in 1979 and Libby Larsen’s If I Begin to Sing, commissioned in honor of CSUEB’s 40th Anniversary, as well as works by CSUEB faculty and student composers. The choir has been led by Buddy James since 2006.

SOPRANOS
Brenna Borgstede
Lauren Cadotte
Jingwei Cai
Anisa De Ramos
Tani Nagaoka
Suyeon Shin
Paige Swarts
Yaqing Wang
Tianyue Zhang


ALTOS
Natalie Briseño
Emily Greco
Tia Pitman
Eesha Rege
Miranda Rocco
Josie Ramirez
Mei Chuen Wan
Lingfei Zhao

 

TENORS
Weiyu Deng
Antonio Grant
Vinh Phan
Seth Mijares
Jacob Swift
Paco Wong


BASSES
Andrew Davis
Dorian Ellison
Adrian Gallegos
Jose Avalos Gutierrez
Andrew Kessler
Justin Kwan
Evann Lano-Nutter
Ninoangelo Lastimosa
Peter Lodman-Slater
Zeshan Ma
Jared Moore