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Linda Moran, Artistic Director – Linda's inspiration and creativity have grown from a life dedicated to the arts, as a theatrical director, choreographer, professional dancer, Hollywood casting director and university professor and educator across the U.S. and Canada. Linda’s extensive background includes directing, choreographing and performing in over 250 musical theatre productions from coast to coast. Her journey began performing as Mary Poppins at Disneyland, a regular on American Bandstand and a showgirl in Hallelujah Hollywood, MGM Grand, Las Vegas. She has had the privilege of coaching Broadway, TV & film actors and dancers, as well as, a co-creator of Arroyo Vista Children’s Theater. Founding her own company, Theatrical Tapestry offers unique business and personal development workshops to teach and motivate effective stage-to-business communications and presentation skills to assist everyone in empowering their connections and achieve success in whatever role they are playing.
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Kurt Kelley, Music Director – Kurt was active in New York City singing and theatre circles, a conductor of musicals, cabarets and concert, Choral Director at Fordham High School for the Arts, sang with Nebraska Choral Arts Society under Z. Randall Stroop, and in New York with St. George Choral Society under Dr. Matthew Lewis. He is Director of Choirs and Bands at Painted Hills Middle School.
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Kurt Jordan, Principal Accompanist – Kurt developed an intense interest in learning the piano after having seen The Phantom of the Opera with his parents at age 10. He studied under the guidance of Joann Algier throughout middle and high school, during which time he discovered a love of music using multiple pianos. This passion was further explored at Azusa Pacific University while studying with Dr. Robert Sage. Kurt performed several recitals of material he arranged for two and three pianos, the recordings of which have received radio play in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Boston, Austin and Beirut. In 2009, Kurt had the honor of performing the West Coast premiere of Alvin Curran’s 7.5 hour long piano song cycle, Inner Cities 1-13, as well as the U.S. premiere of movement 14 at Burning Man in 2013. Kurt graduated from Azusa Pacific University in 2010 with a BA in Music Theory and Composition. He is involved as accompanist for many musical organizations throughout the Coachella Valley including: the Cathedral High School Chamber Singers, The Arrangement, College of the Desert, and Green Room Theatre. Kurt is the Principal Accompanist for Modern Men, A Cabbello, The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Desert and Desert Outreach Synagogue. Kurt has also composed several large-scale works for piano solo, a song cycle for piano and soprano, and an SATB choral piece. He is currently working on a song cycle inspired by the paintings of Agnes Pelton for piano, soprano, gong, singing bowls, and dancers.
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Rich Cook, Founding Artistic Director (2016-2021) – Rich is an ASCAP/BMI composer of major works, individual songs and hymns with several major publishing companies. His background includes serving as Composer in Residence, musical director, conductor, TV Show host, and producer of concerts and musical productions in arenas and theaters in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. As well as working with Disney in creating “Night of Joy” at Disneyland, he has also served on the Gospel Music Association Board of Directors in producing the Dove Awards. He has conducted and staged concerts with Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Bernadette Peters, Pat Boone, Debbie Boone, Art Linkletter, Thurl Ravenscroft, Dino Kartsonikis, Andrae Crouch, Little Richard, Vestal Goodman, and Tammy Faye Bakker. An alumnus of Evangel University, Springfield, MO, Rich has also studied choral conducting with Simon Carrington of Yale University, Cyril McClellen, Paul Cope, Brian O’Connell of Boston Conservatory. Before founding A Cabbello, Rich founded and was Artistic Director of Men Alive, the Orange County Gay Men’s Chorus. In collaboration with Katherine Cash, he composed a 9 movement mass, “Missa Resurrexit”, published by “Edition Ferrimontana” of Ober-Mörlen, Germany, which has been performed at the San Juan Capistrano Basilica in Southern California and in various concert halls and churches in Europe.
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OUR MISSION
A Cabbello is committed to pursuing excellent, fervent and innovative music-making with the message of love and unity, that fosters an enlightening artistic and spiritual experience for our members and audiences.
A Cabbello is committed to pursuing excellent, fervent and innovative music-making with the message of love and unity, that fosters an enlightening artistic and spiritual experience for our members and audiences.