Lon Ellenberger
Countertenor
Upcoming performances include: "Mummer's Play" at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, November 7, 2009.
"Live at the Chazen" with the Sotto Voce Tuba Quartet to be broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio, November 22, 2009
Recent performances include "Praying by Number" with the Schola Antiqua of Chicago featuring music of Obrecht, Dunstaple, and Josquin; Bach St Matthew Passion with the Madison Bach Musicians, Handel Messiah at Rockefeller Chapel, Vivaldi Gloria with Stephen Alltop, the Lord Hayes Masque at the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Carmina Burana of Carl Orff with the West Suburban Symphony.
Also Bach B-minor Mass with the Madison Bach Musicians which received broad acclaim, Handel Dettinger Te Deum at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel with the RMC Choir and Baroque Band. (rockefeller.uchicago.edu).
Lon Ellenberger appeared in the role of the "Spirit" in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Chicago Opera Theater's 2006 season, garnering great reviews from the Chicago Tribune, Opera News and other publications.
Additional solo credits include Bach's Johannes-Passion and Handel's Messiah at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. “Live from Studio One” on WFMT in Monteverdi’s Scherzi Musicali, Bernstein’s Missa Brevis with the Chicago Choral Artists, a recital performance of Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus (a solo-cantata setting of Psalm 126), Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus at Northwestern’s Dunbar Early Music Festival which garnered glowing reviews, a recital of seventeenth century consort works by Heinrich Bach, Franz Tunder, Heinrich Schütz, and Dietrich Buxtehude in Vail Chapel, Purcell’s Bell Anthem with the Mozart Sinfonia, and additional doctoral recital work featuring Ich habe genug - Schlummert ein (BWV 82), arias from Bach’s B-minor Mass, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Glass’s Akhnaten, Handel's Partenope, and the premier of Five Romantic Songs by Chicago composer Michael Gustav Miller.
Dr. Ellenberger began voice training in the boys choir school tradition with the Kantorei of Rockford under Linden Lundstrom, singing soprano solos in the Bach Magnificat and Vivaldi Gloria. He earned a B.A. in German Language and Literature from Beloit College, and an M.A. in Vocal Pedagogy from Northeastern Illinois University with a baritone recital of Schubert, Wolf, Strauss, Berg, Weill, and Chicago composer John Giles. He sang baritone and tenor with the Grant Park Symphony Chorus, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Light Opera Works, and in recital in Hungary. Lon earned his Doctor of Music in Voice and Opera in the countertenor Fach from Northwestern University.