Lucas DeJesus, bass, is a multidisciplinary vocalist spreading his performance focus across collaborative, operatic, choral, sacred, and new music. In addition to teaching voice for ArtSmart, a program providing free voice lessons to high school students in under-served communities, Lucas serves the non-profit as Regional Leader for Philadelphia and Chicago as well as Program Operations Assistant. Lucas actively performs with the Opera Philadelphia Chorus, the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, Mendelssohn Club Chorus as a core singer, Singing City as a staff singer, Glassbrook Vocal Ensemble- a semi-professional chamber ensemble- as a founding member and Project Manager, the Chestnut Street Singers- a choral collective, and The Same Stream who in February released Serenity – The Music of Paul Mealor, one of three CDs to be released by the choir in 2020. Photo by Lucas DeJesus