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Amplifying Voices
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The Fortissima Collective is dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices by creating and curating artist driven performances and opportunities.
Our Core Values
Our VisionThe Fortissima Collective's vision is to create safe, inclusive, and supportive spaces for high quality artist driven performances while amplifying underrepresented voices, establishing community collaborations, and providing accessible educational experiences.
Our BoardCarr Martin, President
Danielle Perrault, Vice President Anna Binder, Treasurer Elly Roseberry, Secretary Evangelina Woo Jordan Kuspa Alan Hicks |
Upcoming Concerts
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Leadership
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Tasha Koontz
General Director and Co-Founder Native Hawaiian soprano Tasha Koontz has been recognized by Parterre Box for her “sumptuous, gleaming lyric instrument” and by Opera Wire for her “secure silvery high notes”. An artist garnering attention from coast to coast, she lends her unique combination of nuanced and vocally exciting performances to a gallery of leading ladies in the operatic repertoire.
In San Diego Opera’s 2021 concert One Amazing Night “Soprano Tasha Koontz wowed with a knockout performance of “Dieu quel frisson” from Gounod’s opera, “Romeo et Juliette,” (San Diego Union Tribune) and performed the soprano solos in Bach Cantata 106 with the La Jolla Symphony. Ms. Koontz was also a featured soloist in the Del Mar International Composer’s Symposium where she performed new and recent works by up and coming composers like Nicolas Lell Benavides, Polina Nazaykinskaya, and Jordan Kuspa. In the 2019/20 season, engagements included the soprano solos in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the San Diego Symphony, the role of the High Priestess in Verdi's Aïda with the San Diego Opera, the soprano soloist in Vivaldi's Gloria with the San Diego Festival Chorus & Orchestra, and Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the California Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Koontz was also heard on the WFMT radio broadcast of the 2019 performance of Aïda with Chicago Symphony Orchestra in which she sang High Priestess. in In October 2020 she had the pleasure of covering Ana Maria Martinez in the role of Mimì in La Boheme in a groundbreaking drive in opera production by San Diego Opera. Ms. Koontz recently performed as the soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the historic Spreckels Organ Pavilion with the San Diego Master Chorale, Spreckels Organ Society, and San Diego Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez. She will next appear with San Diego Opera in the 2021 and 2023 seasons. www.tashakoontz.com IG: @TishTashKoontz |
Sarah-Nicole Carter
Artistic Director and Co-Founder Mezzo-Soprano Sarah-Nicole Carter has been hailed by the L.A. Times as "simply wonderful", by San Diego Story as a “fiery mezzo-soprano who added verve and vibrant color”, The Salt Lake Tribune as having a "velvety alto", and by critics as conveying a "sharp wit and wistfulness." She will next be seen as Third Lady in The Magic Flute, Ma Moss in The Tender Land, and the Housekeeper in Man of La Mancha with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater and as the alto soloist in the Mozart Requiem with Escondido Choral Arts Society.
Sarah-Nicole recently took part in a special performance in support of Peace, Dignity, and Democracy at the historic Spreckels Organ Pavilion in San Diego. Over $15,000 in donations were received to provide humanitarian relief for Ukrainian refugees in partnership with San Diego Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez, the Spreckels Organ Society, the San Diego Diplomacy Council, and Forever Balboa Park. She was also featured in an interview with KPBS discussing the impact of the Pandemic on performing artists. A frequent collaborator with San Diego Opera, Sarah-Nicole has sung Giovanna in Rigoletto, Kate in Pirates of Penzance, and the role of 2nd Frida in 2019 workshop performance of El último sueño de Frida y Diego, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz and Latin GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank, in addition to multiple concerts. Sarah-Nicole has performed in concert with Opera Saratoga, Bach Collegium San Diego, Eureka Symphony, La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, The Spreckels Organ Society, Musica Vitale, the Los Angeles Conducting Institute, San Diego Master Chorale, San Diego Festival Chorus, Loveland Opera, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater, Center Chorale & Escondido Choral Arts, and Grossmont Symphony Orchestra. She is a staff singer at The Mission Basilica in San Juan Capistrano, a Co-Founder of the FF Collective, and has continued her education during the pandemic studying improvisation at the UCB Training Center and The Groundlings Theater & School. Visit her website at www.snrcarter.com or find her on Instagram @mobcapmezzo. |
Board of Directors
Carr Martin
President 
Jordan Kuspa
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Danielle Perrault
Vice President 
Evangelina Woo
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Anna Binder
Treasurer 
Alan Hicks
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Elly Roseberry
Secretary |
Amplifying Voices Through Live Events The Fortissima Collective is a women led and founded performing arts and music collective in San Diego, Orange County, and Los Angeles providing choral, opera, pop, jazz, caroling and solo concerts. We build concerts for your event, and promote artist led projects.
Our Mission: The Fortissima Collective is dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices by creating and curating artist driven performances and opportunities. |
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