Cantiamo Sonoma -
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Published on: 9/6/2006
Last Visited: 3/31/2009
Shafiq Spanos, Bass II
Shafiq is a graduate of Brown University in music history, where he also studied Voice and Flute.
Following his high school choral activities, he sang with the Brown Chamber Choir and University Chorus with which he toured Eastern Europe.
Later he sang with the Providence Singers and in Gilbert and Sullivan productions.
Shafiq came to Sonoma County in 1993 to study massage and hypnotherapy and has sung locally with the Festival Singers of Sebastopol, the New Sufi Choir, and the Monteverdi Choir at Sonoma State University.
He joined The Schola Gregoriana in 1999 and has happily continued with the group in its transformation to Cantiamo.
An amateur composer, he is Cantiamo's composer-in-residence, with his works appearing occasionally on our programs.
You may recognize Shafiq as the host of "Out of the Box" and of "Sunday Classics" on KRCB-FM here in the county.
He also works at KRCB and has a small, private massage practice in Santa Rosa.