Tenor I

Dave Bailey became interested in choral music in high school where he was a member of the High Chicago Chorale and two other groups. Locally, Dave has sung with the Los Alamos Choral Society, the Los Alamos Chamber Ensemble, Quintessence, and Quodlibet, and in choirs at Immanual, St. Andrew, and Shepard of the Valley Presbyterian churches and at St. Paul Lutheran. He recently retired from the Sangre de Cristo Chorale after singing with that group for 18 years.

Greg Haschke has been with the group since its second season. He
discovered the joy of choral music at the ripe age of 24 and has participated in church and community choirs ever since. His other passions include gardening, winemaking, cycling, and Scouting. Professionally, Greg is an electrical engineer at Sandia Labs.

Ken Lienemann started singing at his mother's knee, continued through
high school and college, and is determined to get it right someday. He has sung with a variety of groups across several states, most recently with the Sangre de Cristo Chorale in Santa Fe. Ken has degrees in Engineering and Remote Sensing and worked on the International Space Station for 12 years. Most of his interests take on lives of their own and become avocations. He reads extensively and likes woodworking, gardening, hiking and camping, and makes a mean jar of apricot jam.

Tenor II

John Berry has a rich musical history, beginning with piano and moving on to voice. No stranger to male vocal singing, he sang in a 100-voice chorus at The Citadel and barbershop groups from time to time. Recently he continues as a "rabid" church choir member and has held roles in the Albuquerque Academy's Gilbert and Sullivan productions. John works as an Operations Research Analyst, specializing in test and evaluation for the Defense Department.

Omar Durant has sung locally with many groups, including Opera Southwest, Quintessence, Masterchorale, the NMSO Chorus, and the St. Paul Lutheran Church Choir. Omar works as Library Services Manager for the Albuquerque Public Schools. In his spare time he enjoys photography, backpacking and camping, and writing. 

William (Bill) Foote grew up in a gospel tradition. He sang with the UNM A Cappella Choir and has been a member of the St Paul Lutheran Church Choir for about 30 years. He is a forensic psychologist, and has been quite active in the field, serving on a number of national boards and publishing in journals, and in a book.

Edward Seymour has sung with groups in Ohio, including the Oberlin Musical Union, the Oberlin Chamber singers, and the Oberlin Musical Theatre. He has performed throughout New England as a member of the Dissipated Eight, a male octet, and, in Michigan, was cast in Musket Theatre Productions' production of Cabaret. Holder of a Masters in music from the University of Michigan, Ed is currently employed in Reservations at the Hotel Santa Fe in Santa Fe. 

Bass I

Michael Finnegan is a retired physician and is delighted to be singing with de Profundis. His musical experience includes Men's Chorus at Loyola University of Los Angeles and many leading roles with Musical Theater Southwest and Albuquerque Little Theater. His love of music is exceeded only by his love for his wife, Laurie, and his son, Colin.

Dominic Kollasch received his Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Oklahoma City U. Margaret E. Petree School of Music and Performing Arts. He is an alum of the Boston U. Tanglewood Institute and has performed with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Pops Orchestra under John Williams. He has toured the eastern U.S., Europe, Malaysia, and Singapore. He has soloed in Notre-Dame de Paris and been a guest music minister at Il Sacro Convento in Assisi, Italy. Now with his MA in Counseling Psychology, he loves his work as a Counselor at St. Pius X High School in Albuquerque.

Bass II

Jon M. Aase started singing as a boy soprano at the age of eight and has had the bug ever since. He has sung with the Pomona College Glee Club, the Yale Russian Chorus, the Anchorage Civic Chorus and Opera, Opera Southwest, the New Mexico Symphony Chorus, and Quintessence. Dr. Jon is a University Hospital pediatrician specializing in dysmorphology (genetics and birth defects). 

Ed Fancovic first began singing in medical school, when his class formed a chorus. He has sung with a number of church and secular groups since then, and currently sings with the Cathedral Choir at St. John's Episcopal Church. He works as an internal medicine/primary care physician at UNM.

Roy Morgan is Office Manager at Immanuel Presbyterian Church. He is formerly Executive Director of the National Information Center for Educational Media, and has worked at the Agency for Instructional Technology, Indiana University, and e-psyche. He has sung in or directed church choirs and handbell choirs. Roy is a native New Mexican whose hobbies are weaving, papermaking, bookbinding, and letterpress printing.

Director

David Poole holds an M.M. in Choral Conducting and in Vocal Performance and a B.A. in English Literature. He has studied at Indiana University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of New Mexico, and Westminster Choir College. David is presently the Director of Music at La Mesa Presbyterian Church and a private voice teacher. He is also a published author and composer, who can often be found seeking inspiration along the trout streams of northern New Mexico. 

Visit David Poole's web site at www.davidepoole.com