Rachel Darr (Soprano) is delighted to be performing in the debut of Sonder. She holds a Bachelor’s in Music from Asbury University and her college theatre credits include “Doris” in “Bye, Bye, Birdie” and “Caitlin” in “Mockingbird”. From studying voice, she became the winner of the 2019 Peniston Honors Competition. She is currently a Performer/Dancer/Rider with Dolly Parton’s Stampede in Pigeon Forge, TN. 

Sarah Antell is an Ojibwe Mezzo-Soprano from Phoenix, Arizona. Antell graduated with her Master of Music degree from Louisiana State University in 2022 and studied under the tutelage of Tenors Paul Groves & Robert Grayson. Since graduating, she has participated in productions with Nashville Opera, the world premiere of The House of Bernarda Alba as Martirio, received an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and has enjoyed performing in opera outreach programs like Opera On Wheels and Opera On Tap. Sarah also enjoys performing other styles of music, and spent over a year singing pop, rock, and jazz at Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, LA. In the near future, you can find Antell in the Ensembles of the Nashville Opera's 2024-2025 season, at the odd karaoke bar, or singing with the Nashville chapter of Opera On Tap. 

Kara Schlenk is a senior violin performance and public relations major at Belmont University. She is from Kansas City and spent her childhood there playing in youth symphonies and community orchestras. Kara was taught under the instruction of Chiafei Lin, Benny Kim and Elisabeth Small. She is currently a student of Boris Abramov. In her free time, she does yoga and goes hiking. 

Vonda Darr has been the principal harpist for the Augusta Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and performs as second harp and substitute principal for the Nashville Symphony. She is a recording session harpist with the Nashville Recording Orchestra and has toured nationally with Andrea Bocelli, Broadway’s The King and I, My Fair Lady, and Weird Al Yankovic. Vonda has performed at the Kennedy Center and Smithsonian Institution with the NC Symphony and was their principal classical harpist for eight years. She performs as part of Duo Venandi and the Vega Harp Duo, which premiered Submerged for Two Harps in 2021. They commissioned the work Echoes from the South by Martin David Jones, with a world premiere performance at the American Harp Society national conference in 2022. Vonda is the inventor of Pocket Harp Pedals, an interactive harp pedal chart device and app launched in 2022.