Elias debuted with the Pacific Lyric Association as both Eisenstein and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus and returned to Guild Opera for role debuts as Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte and Borsa in Rigoletto. An active proponent of new music, Berezin created two leading roles as Autumn in Joseph-Nathaniel Cuenca's SCHISM in conjunction with UCR Arts, and The Inventor in Ian Dicke's ROMAN with Synchromy at Pasadena's Boston Court Theater. Upcoming performances include a role debut as Cavaradossi in Guild Opera's production of Tosca. Recent concert performances saw recorded recital appearances with the Verdi Chorus filmed during the pandemic and the tenor solos in Mozart's Coronation Mass and Haydn's The Creation with the Palisades Symphony. Berezin has appeared as a young artist with Source Song Festival, Songfest, and the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and was a recent finalist in auditions for the GRAMMY-award winning group Chanticleer. He holds an M.M. from the University of Redlands and maintains an active studio.

Emerson Boatwright is an actor, singer, and voiceover actor, and teaching artist living in Los           Angeles. He was trained at Columbia College in Chicago in Vocal Performance and Music Composition. He moved to New York and eventually trained with Ryan Scott Oliver and Lindsay Mendez in Musical Theatre Performance. He has also found success in regional theatres in Los Angeles such as The Rockwell, Candlelight Pavilion, Musical Theatre West and others. Some favorite credits include UMPO: A League of their Own, Spamalot, The Producers, and Young Frankenstein. He has also sung with the California Philharmonic Chorale and The Donald Brinegar Singers. He is thrilled to be joining the WPC Choir as Tenor Section leader!

American soprano Christina Borgioli earned a BM and MM in vocal performance from the prestigious vocal music program at UCLA. In 2009, she earned her Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes College of Music at The New School in New York. During her time in New York, Ms. Borgioli had the privilege to participate in a special student-mentor program with acclaimed soprano Deborah Voigt. As an esteemed soloist for the “Music at Westwood” Concert Series at Westwood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, Ms. Borgioli’s resonant, pure solo lyric soprano voice has been featured in Vivaldi’s Gloria, Schubert’s Mass in G, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Handel’s Messiah, and many cantatas of J.S. Bach. Her oratorio repertoire also includes the soprano soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria, Rutter Requiem, and Rossini Stabat Mater. A favorite collaborator amongst her colleagues in the world of opera, Ms. Borgioli has performed the lead roles of Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites (Poulenc), Violetta in La Traviata (Verdi), and Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring (Britten), among many others. Ms. Borgioli is a long standing member of the Los Angeles Opera Chorus. 

Devon is honored to be joining this wonderfully talented choir at WPC!  Devon is both a full-time mom and a full-time singer.  She currently sings soprano with the Metropolitan Mater Chorale, and she can be seen singing at Disneyland with the Goodetime Carolers, The Sweethearts and The Skeletones. Devon also sings with the renowned jazz band Sascha’s Bloc, and she recently had the privilege of being featured in the Sascha’s Bloc album Club Rendezvous, with Matthew Morrison and Nikki Lorenzo. Recent musical theatre credits include Beauty and the Beast – “Babette”  Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – “Wailing Wife”  The Marvelous Wonderettes – “Cindy Lou”  Company – “Jenny”  It’s Only Life – “Woman 2”  Sweeney Todd – “Johanna”  Snow White, an Enchanted Musical – “Snow White”  Oklahoma! – “Laurie”  Reading Together with Belle – “Belle”.   Twitter

Emily Kerrigan is a versatile operatic and vocal chamber performer noted for "the strength and cutting edge of her mezzo-soprano" (South Florida Classical Review).  Emily has sung with companies such as Pacific Opera Project, UCLA Opera, UCR Arts, Mission Opera, and Vox Viceralis Opera. Ms. Kerrigan made her Mozart Requiem debut in the Alto Soloist at the University of La-Crosse, and is an auxiliary member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Tonality. She has been a studio artist at the Aspen   Music Festival Opera Theater Center, the Miami Music Festival, and has  performed alongside “Seraphic Fire” in the AMF's Professional Choral Institute. Ms. Kerrigan holds her Bachelor of Arts in Music from the Herb Alpert School of Music (UCLA). 

Matthew graduated from California State University of Northridge in 2017 with a BM in vocal performance. There he studied classical voice under Dr. David Sannerud. He has performed in multiple operas and sung roles such as “Seneca” in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, “Zuniga” in Bizet’s Carmen, “Mr. Gobineau” in Menotti’s The Medium, and the “Commendatore” in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. He also was given scholarship to participate in a two and a half week vocal program in Trossingen, Germany, that took place during the summer of 2015 and focused primarily on the study and performance of the German Art Song repertoire. Matthew has performed in multiple oratorio settings such as the Mozart Requiem, the Faure Requiem, and Handel’s Messiah.  He writes original music to sing and play on the banjo and even instructs his own banjo students from time to time. He looks forward to learning new music as well as old music in the years to come.