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TODD WEDGE, tenor, is a native of Port Huron, Michigan, and graduated from the Northwestern University School of Music in 2005 after completing his undergraduate training at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Prior to joining Chanticleer last year, Mr. Wedge was an active soloist whose concert and operatic repertoire stretched from Monteverdi to Britten. In 2006 Mr. Wedge completed a full season as a young artist with Chicago Opera Theater, was featured with the Chicago Handel Week Festival, and was a soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Dixit Dominus, Solomon, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Mendelssohn’s Lobesgang, Mozart’s Requiem and several works of Bach. He has received awards from the American Opera Society, The Bel Canto Foundation, American Friends of Austria Lieder Compeition, and the Loretta Kearns Award for Music Education. In addition to his performing career, Mr. Wedge is a passionate educator who has held positions at the University of Notre Dame & St. Xavier University, where he taught studio voice and vocal pedagogy.