Tina Paradiso, Music Director
As owner and co-founder of Vivace Voices, Ltd. (a professional entertainment company in Portland), Ms. Paradiso conducts their premier, a cappella holiday ensemble, The Fireside Carolers. Her local performing credits include: “Sunday Night at the Bus Stop Café” musical revue at My. Hood Repertory Theatre; “Menopause, the Musical” at Portland Center for the Performing Arts; and “Sylvia”, a staged-reading at the Old Church for the Portland Civic Theatre Guild. In addition, she has toured nationally in “Les Miserables” and “Fiddler on the Roof”, and has sung in concert in Australia, Canada and throughout the west coast, from southern California to Seattle. Ms. Paradiso received her Bachelor degree in both vocal performance and education from California State University at Chico.
Antonia Amodeo, Assistant Music Director
Ms. Amodeo, an accomplished Mezzo-Soprano, has over thirty years experience as a choir director, cantor and choral section leader. In addition to co-founding Vivace Voices, she was instrumental in establishing both the Spanish choir at Ascension Parish in Portland and the choir at the Center for Spiritual Living in Astoria. Ms. Amodeo received her Bachelor of Music in Opera degree from the University of Southern California.
