Megan Friar, mezzo-soprano, is familiar to audiences as a soloist in opera, oratorio and musical theater. She has performed with the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera and has appeared with Sarasota Opera, Connecticut Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera, New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (NYGASP), Virginia Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, American Opera Projects and Dicapo Opera. Recent performances include her New York City Center debut with NYGASP performing the role of Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance, as well as the role of Verena in Stephen Paulus' opera, Summer at the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York City.

As a concert soloist, Ms. Friar recently performed with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and Musica Sacra at Carnegie Hall, as well as being a soloist in Mozart's Requiem at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. She is a soloist with various New York City ensembles including AmorArtis, Virgin Consort, BachWorks, Vox Vocal Ensemble, New York Virtuoso Singers and Musica Sacra. Other concert appearances have been with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Cape May Festival Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, Fairfield County Chorale and the Fairfield Orchestra.

Ms. Friar has been a featured soloist on many recordings, including Stravinsky's Russian Peasant Songs with Robert Craft; and has appeared on the Garrison Keillor Radio Show, The David Letterman Show, and The Guiding Light. She performs in concert with her husband, jazz pianist Ron Drotos, singing classic songs of the American musical theater. Ms. Friar is on the faculty of the Fairbanks (Alaska) Summer Arts Festival, performing and teaching classes in musical theater and vocal technique.

Ron Drotos is equally active as a composer/arranger/pianist in jazz, pop, gospel, classical and musical theater. After graduating from The University of Connecticut with a degree in Music Composition, Mr. Drotos studied with such notable jazz pianists as Billy Taylor, Harold Danko and Andy LaVerne.

In 1995 Mr. Drotos was the Associate Musical Director/Conductor for the Tony-nominated Broadway musical, Swinging on a Star for which he also contributed arrangements and orchestrations. His other Broadway credits include Smokey Joe's Cafe and The Life. Mr. Drotos has been featured as musical director on the 92nd Street Y's famed Lyrics and Lyricists series and is in demand as a pianist, collaborating with many top cabaret and jazz singers and has performed at the Blue Note jazz club in New York City with jazz vocalist, Giacomo Gates.

Mr. Drotos is internationally known as a composer of choral music which is distributed by his own publishing company, Rondeau Press. He has received a Meet the Composer grant for his work with The Gregg Smith Singers and his choral arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner was performed at the 1994 U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.

Mr. Drotos has composed the underscoring and incidental music for ten childrenšs musicals produced by the theater company, ArtsPower. Television appearances include New York at Night, The Joan Lunden Show and The Joe Franklin Show. He has composed and performed industrials and jingles for many companies, including Macy's and DuPont. Each summer, Mr. Drotos travels to Alaska where he teaches Cabaret Performance and Music Theory classes at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.