Please welcome two new members, Mark T. Ketterson and Jennifer Goltz-Taylor.

Mark has been the Chicago correspondent for Opera News magazine for 20 years. He is active with Arts ATL, which shares content with the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and has written in the past for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago magazine. He also writes program notes for various companies across the country.

Jennifer has reviewed Michigan Opera Theater/Detroit Opera on behalf of Opera News for the last decade.  She is a professional vocalist and music theorist with a Master’s in Voice and a PhD in Music Theory, both from the University of Michigan. She teaches at the UM Residential College, where she offers courses in voice, writing about music, race/gender/class in American Musical Theater, and, as of Winter 2024, music theory, as well as Arts and Humanities in the 20th century.