A fifth-generation San Franciscan, Cole Thomason-Redus was born into a musical family. He is currently in his eleventh year as an Artist-In-Residence at School of the Arts, a San Francisco public alternative high school, where he acts as Assistant Conductor to the Vocal Department and Music Director of Musical Theater Productions. Cole worked for three years on the Music Genome Project at Pandora.com. 

Cole has sung professionally everywhere from concert halls to piano bars, and has performed and conducted throughout the U.S. and 12 countries in Europe.  He has extensive experience with choral, operatic, and musical theater literature and has studied at the Conservatories of Oberlin and San Francisco.  His original compositions have been performed by SF Symphony Chorus (among others), can be heard on several on-line music sites, and have been broadcast on NPR stations nation wide. Cole joined the Schola in September of 2000 and has served as Composer-In-Residence since 2004.

A native of Abilene, Texas, Kristen is a Master’s student in Vocal Performance at the San Francisco Conservatory and a recent graduate of Hofstra University in New York.  After credits such as the title role in Carmen, Dialogues of the Carmelites (Mother Marie), and Falstaff (Mistress Quickly), Kristen is now excited to be exploring soprano repertoire from Mozart and Weber to Rachmaninoff and Menotti.  A recent winner of the East Bay Opera League Competition, Kristen can be heard on various opera and recital stages around the Bay Area.   In addition to her position as Chorus Manager with the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco, Kristen sings with Volti, San Francisco’s new-music chamber choir, and is a Choral Scholar in the Choeur Paroissial at Notre Dame des Victoires, as well as Administrator for the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute.