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Tenor Daniel J. Doty has appeared throughout the Midwest with
orchestras and opera companies. A participant of the Opera and Music
Theatre Festival of Lucca, Daniel spent six weeks in the Tuscan village
of Lucca Italy singing operatic arias at various venues associated with
Lucca’s most famous son Giacomo Puccini. Daniel is a frequent soloist
with the Akron Symphony Orchestra and has also appeared with symphonies
in Muncie, IN, Urbana, IL, Marion, OH and community bands in Medina and Wadsworth. Mr. Doty holds a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Bowling Green State University. He has taught music in the public school systems of Ohio and Illinois.
He also an ordained minister and holds a Master of Divinity degree from
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL. Currently
Daniel serves as the Senior Minister of Trinity United Church of Christ
in Wadsworth, Ohio.
 Denise Milner Howell,
mezzo-soprano, is equally at home on the opera, musical theatre or
concert stage. Her solo engagements include performances with Opera
Cleveland, Chautauqua Opera, Red {an orchestra}, Akron Lyric Opera
Theatre, Tanglewood Festival, Akron Symphony Orchestra, Carousel Dinner
Theatre, Sounds of Sousa Band, and Buffalo Philharmonic. Additionally,
Ms. Howell is a founding member of the vocal chamber music ensemble “Red
Campion”, performing concerts throughout Ohio and offering outreach
into area schools. She can be heard in a CD release on the North/South
recording label singing “Sappho Songs”, composed by Ira-Paul Schwarz.
In addition to performing, Ms. Howell is an active voice teacher. She
currently teaches at Ashland University, and has served on the voice
faculties of the University of Akron School of Music, and the State
University of New York College at Fredonia. Ms. Howell earned a Bachelor
of Fine Arts in music education from Long Island University/CW Post
College, and a Master of Music degree in vocal performance from New
England Conservatory of Music. She lives in Sharon Township, Ohio with
her husband, Gregg, and their two sons, Miles and Wesley.
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