Ms. Maurita Phillips-Thornburgh This is Me

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1. 1. Bunny

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   Published on: 3/7/2008   Last Visited: 3/7/2008

   Maurita Phillips-Thornburgh ("Bunny"), Founder and Artistic Director
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   MAURITA PHILLIPS-THORNBURGH ("Bunny"), founder and artistic director, has an extraordinary record of repertoire and performance. She enjoys an international reputation with an active career in both concert and recording venues, having performed as soloist with conductors Zubin Mehta, George Solti, Eric Leinsdorf, William Steinberg, Herbert Blomstedt, Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Stein, and Gerard Schwarz in repertoire ranging from the early music to the masterworks from the Baroque through twentieth century. Trained at La Sierra University and California Institute of the Arts, she was awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts honoris causa from Andrews University in Summer 2000. She graces the concert stage not only as performer but also as conductor. Entering its fourteenth concert season, she has led CANTORI DOMINO, as founder and artistic director, through a wide range of works, numerous concerts, tours of Spain, Portugal and Eastern Europe, choral workshops and multicultural events. Under Ms. Phillips-Thornburgh, CANTORI DOMINO has been invited to a week-long residency at York Minster in England in late summer 2004. She has conducted a variety of choral ensembles since age sixteen, including choirs at First Congregational Church and Bel Air Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, and currently, at the Vallejo Drive Seventh Day Adventist Church and St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica.
   
   Off the concert stage, she can be heard in recordings for Capitol, Angel, Chapel, ABC and Orion labels, including a premiere recording of Gerhard Samuel's Sunlike. She is also very active in sound-track recordings for television and film, including Close Encounters, Empire of the Sun, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Beauty and the Beast, Hook, Aladdin, Home Alone II, Jurassic Park, Boys on the Side, Father of the Bride II, Glimmer Man, Extreme Measures, Legend of Mulan, Anatasia, Amistad, Wild, Wild West, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Astronaut's Wife, Space Cowboys, Family Man, Behind Enemy Lines, Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolution.

2. 2. SoundtrackNet : News : Symphony in Film Music: The HSO to make debut at UCLA on May 18, 2006

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   Published on: 5/18/2006   Last Visited: 6/9/2006

   As its founder and artistic director, Maurita Phillips-Thornburgh has led CANTORI DOMINO through fifteen seasons of concerts featuring a wide range of works, including tours to Spain and Eastern Europe. In late 2004, the ensemble enjoyed a weeklong residency at York Minster Cathedral, Yorkshire. Phillips-Thornburgh also conducts the sanctuary choirs of Vallejo Drive Seventh Day Adventist Church in Glendale and St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica.
   
   Soprano RENÉE BURKETT received her Master,s Degree in Music Education from the University of North Texas. While in her home state, she performed with the opera companies of Dallas and San Antonio, as well as Houston Grand Opera. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has sung with the Los Angeles Opera and Opera Pacific. Burkett has been a member of the GRAMMY-nominated Los Angeles Master Chorale for fourteen years and a member of Cantori Domino for eight years. She has toured with the Camerata of Los Angeles performing at Carnegie Hall and in China, and she has also toured with the Roger Wagner Chorale in Japan and Korea. She has appeared on television and in motion pictures, both on screen and on sound tracks.

3. 3. Founders and Directors

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   Maurita Phillips-Thornburgh, Founder and Artistic Director