Our Team
Artistic Director: Jenny C Jones
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Classic Carolers Musical Director: Chris Ring
An experienced professional singer, pianist, director, and teacher in Los Angeles and Orange County, Chris Ring joins Classic Carolers this season as music director, coaching us to be high-quality and entertaining performers, and helping with creation and adjustment of the arrangements we sing. He loves good vocal harmony, and his favorite music of all is Christmas music! In addition to his work with Classic Carolers, Chris serves as the director of local community chorale, the Voices of Tustin. Also, he serves as the staff pianist at Granada Heights Friends Church, in La Mirada. Yet another hat he wears is as the staff accompanist for the seven choirs and vocal jazz groups at Millikin High School, in Long Beach. Chris thanks God for this opportunity, and thanks his wife and family for their blessing and support as he works and serves in the joy-filled world of music!
Classic Scarolers Musical Director: Ariel Pisturino
Hailed as “simply exquisite,” (Fanfare Magazine), soprano Ariel Pisturino is an alumna of the University of Southern California, Northern Arizona University, OperaWorks and the Russian Opera Workshop. She made her professional debut in 2010 with Long Beach Opera as Nancy T’ang in Adam’s Nixon in China. She has performed roles such as: Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Micaëla (Carmen), Despina (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Leonora (Il Trovatore) and Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte). Pisturino created the role of Laurie on Delos Records’ recording of “Home is a Harbor,” a new opera by Mark Abel, released in 2016. Also with Delos Records, she recorded a song cycle on the album “Terrain of the Heart.” She performed in The Industry’s critically-acclaimed production of HOPSCOTCH, deemed a “mobile opera” by the Los Angeles and New York Times. She has performed with Los Angeles Opera, Pacific Opera Project, Long Beach Opera, The Industry, Martinez Opera, Redlands Opera Theater and the Southern Illinois Music Festival. She made her Kennedy Center debut in November 2019 singing a new opera, Three Paderewskis by composer Jenni Brandon. She recently sang the role of Despina with Pacific Opera Project in November of 2020 in one of the first drive-in operas, and reprised the role in July 2021 for the Southern Illinois Music Festival. www.arielpisturino.com. MIA Artists Management.