CATHLEEN ELLIS STADECKER (soprano), a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, recently moved back after spending several years in Boston and New York City. She loves singing early music and has performed with numerous ensembles, including Pomerium, New York Collegium, Vox Vocal Ensemble, Tiffany Consort, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Boston Bach Ensemble, Choir of the Church of the Advent, Philharmonia Baroque Chorale, San Francisco Bach Choir, and Musica Angelica. She has appeared as a soloist in Monteverdi's Vespers, Carissimi's Jephte, Schütz's Musikalische Exequien and Psalms of David, J.S. Bach's St. John Passion and Mass in B Minor, Handel's Israel in Egypt and Messiah, and Haydn's Creation. Cathleen received her BA degree cum laude from Columbia University in 1996 with a double major in English and Music. She also completed an M.Phil degree in Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, where she was awarded a choral scholarship with the Trinity College Chapel Choir. Cathleen has a JD from Columbia Law School and is currently practicing litigation with Morrison & Foerster, LLP.