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Page 4 of 4 MARK RUSSOM, bass, is pleased to return for his fifth season with the Exultate family. Mark is no stranger to the choral music scene, having been a member of several area chamber choirs. He is also currently singing (as a tenor!) with Tafelmusik. Mark’s vocal talents were honed at a “late age”, starting with the John Laing Singers in the late 80’s, but his instrumental skills began much earlier with piano and ‘cello studies. Mark is a founding member of the Serenata String Quartet, and is in his 20th season as a resident cellist with the Niagara Symphony Orchestra. He also enjoys an active freelance career, performing both as a vocalist and instrumentalist. Away from his music, Mark is an avid curler, cyclist, and golfer, on those rare occasions when spare time avails itself. DUNCAN STUART, tenor, received his choral education as a boy treble at Church of the Epiphany under organist and music director Joan Waters. After a long hiatus from music to pursue professional athletics (as a professional squash player), he was encouraged to begin singing once again, this time under Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill at St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Scarborough. The wheel had come full circle as St. Andrew's was, at that time, the parish of the same Joan Waters, now rector. With his brief time in York University's jazz program comprising his formal musical education, his choral development has been "in situ", including StudioSixteen, Toronto Amadeus Choir, Christ Church Deer Park, and the Nathaniel Dett Ensemble. PETER TIEFENBACH is delighted to be back in the ranks of the Exultate bass section after a season's hiatus. He enjoys a busy and varied career as pianist, vocal coach, composer and, occasionally, broadcaster. He is a member of the voice faculty of the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, where he also teaches a course in orchestral literature, and he serves as Director of Sunday Music for Toronto's First Unitarian Congregation. JAMES TUTTLE, tenor, started singing as a boy chorister under the helm of Dr. Derek Holman at the church of St. Simon-the-Apostle, Toronto, while studying with Anthony St. Pierre. In his adolescent years, he began his Tenor career at All Saints’ Kingsway in Etobicoke with Clement Carelse, giving him solo opportunities in Bach’s St. John Passion and Handel’s Messiah. He later joined the Men and Boys of Toronto’s Cathedral church of St. James, under the direction of Chris Dawes. James is now currently singing in the CBC award-winning choir of St. Thomas’s Anglican church, also under the direction of Dr. John Tuttle. He is a founding member of a Male quintet called Les Cinq. Since 2004, Jamie has been coaching with Lenard Whiting, which has enabled him to perform, with Tryptych, his first operatic role ever in Andrew Ager’s 'Frankenstein'. Other roles include Don José in Bizet's 'Carmen', and had appeared in Leronard Bernstein’s 'Trouble in Tahiti. STEVE WADHAMS, tenor, spent most of his early life as a brass player, starting at the age of nine in the brass band of a small English seaside town and moving on to be principal horn in Britain's National Youth Brass Band. For many years after that, he was a keen French horn player. Singing began as a sideline but gradually became a passion. Six years ago, after a long stint with the Orpheus Choir of Toronto, Steve decided to specialize in chamber choir singing and was thrilled to be invited to join Exultate. He also sings in the professional gallery choirs of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church and the Toronto Oratory and is a member of the Marion Singers, a 16 voice a cappella ensemble which performs free of charge for charitable groups in and around the GTA. When he's not singing, Steve can be found making documentaries at CBC Radio. He has won many Canadian and international awards for his work and is in demand as a mentor and teacher of radio storytelling.
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