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Collins Classical Entertainment Agency Collins Classical Agency has been providing fine musicians and entertainment for parties, corporations and concerts since 1985.

05/25/2026

Live from Colleyville, Texas - the annual Memorial Day Remembrance ...

04/27/2026

Dress Rehearsal for BWV 69. Musicians booked by Collins Classical Agency.

Our concertmaster for today’s Bach Vespers Dr. Ha Dang!Dr. Ha Dang is an award winning and accomplished modern and Baroq...
04/26/2026

Our concertmaster for today’s Bach Vespers Dr. Ha Dang!

Dr. Ha Dang is an award winning and accomplished modern and Baroque violinist. Her goal is to bring early music performed in historical performance practices to diverse audiences. She has appeared as soloist with the Dallas Bach Society and University of North Texas’s Baroque Orchestra. Dr. Dang has also performed as a chamber musician and orchestra member throughout Europe, North America, and Asia.

In 2019, Ha Dang was the recipient of the “Adams-Nordstrom Early Music Award” at UNT for excellence in scholarship and performance. She was awarded second prize in the chamber music category and third prize in the solo violin category in Vietnam’s Concours Autumn Competition 2007. She also won second prize in the Group A of 2011 Thailand’s Mozart International String Competition.

She holds degrees from Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of music (YSTCM) in Singapore and received her masters and doctorate degrees in violin performance at the University of North Texas.

Tenor for Sunday’s Bach Vespers is Ben Caston! Bach Vespers featuring BWV 69 Erhalt un, Herr, bei deinem WortTenor Ben...
04/26/2026

Tenor for Sunday’s Bach Vespers is Ben Caston!
Bach Vespers featuring BWV 69 Erhalt un, Herr, bei deinem Wort
Tenor Ben Caston has been praised as “a pleasantly sinewy tenor” in Highland Park Chorale’s March 2023 performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at Moody Performance Hall in the Dallas Morning News. Recent performances include the Evangelist role in Chilcott’s St. John Passion, Haydn’s Schöpfungsmesse, Bach’s Magnificat, Gabriel Jackson’s Requiem, and several Bach cantatas. In 2015 and 2017, Caston performed Handel’s Messiah in Fort Worth’s Bass Hall with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and was lauded for the lyric quality of his voice. Other performances include Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Mozart’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Schubert’s Mass in G, Handel’s Messiah, Honegger’s King David, Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël, Teichler’s The Good Samaritan, and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music with various choral societies, symphony orchestras, and colleges in Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina.

A native of Liberty, Mississippi, Caston is a graduate of William Carey University (1996) in Hattiesburg, MS, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he earned a Master of Music (1998) and Doctor of Musical Arts (2005), each with an emphasis in church music and voice. He has completed additional graduate coursework in choral conducting through Westminster Choir College and is a Distinguished Voice Professional through the New York Singing Teachers’ Association. He has completed Levels 1-3 of Somatic Voicework™, The LoVetri Method. Caston serves as Professor of Voice and Chair of the Performance and Pedagogy Division in the School of Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he teaches applied voice, voice pedagogy, and directs the Southwestern Singers.

Since 1994 Caston has served Baptist churches in Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas in music ministry. He currently serves as the minister of music at Gambrell Street Baptist Church. Caston is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, American Choral Directors Association, and The Southern Baptist Church Music Conference. He and his wife, Rebecca, have two children, Clay and Sydney, and they live in Fort Worth.

Bridget Cappel is our alto soloist in tomorrow’s Bach Vespers at Zion Lutheran at 6 pm.Mezzo-soprano turned coloratura s...
04/25/2026

Bridget Cappel is our alto soloist in tomorrow’s Bach Vespers at Zion Lutheran at 6 pm.

Mezzo-soprano turned coloratura soprano, Bridget is swiftly establishing herself as a rising star in opera, renowned for her commanding stage presence, soaring coloratura, and sumptuous tone. Bridget captivates audiences with a versatile repertoire spanning traditional operatic classics, early music, contemporary American works, and musical theater. She has garnered critical acclaim for her “beauty of tone and honesty of feeling,” and been lauded for her “supple, beautifully focused voice” (Boston Musical Intelligencer, San Diego Story). She recently made a welcome return to the Fort Worth Opera stage in Adamo’s Little Women, performed a concert with the Puccini Society of Dallas, joined Jake Heggie and the Cliburn Foundation in recital, and has sung throughout the country at companies including Kentucky Opera, Opera NEO, Painted Sky Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, Shreveport Opera, and Des Moines Metro Opera, among others. Outside of solo performance, Bridget sings as a section leader at St. Andrew’s Methodist Church in Plano, and runs a thriving private voice studio with students in the DFW metroplex, across the country, and abroad.

Our bass soloist for Bach Vespers, BWV 69 this Sunday is Baritone Brandon Gibson. Brandon is known for his resonant tone...
04/24/2026

Our bass soloist for Bach Vespers, BWV 69 this Sunday is
Baritone Brandon Gibson. Brandon is known for his resonant tone and commanding vocal presence. He
recently made his role debut as Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Opera Arlington,
where he was praised for his “impeccable comedic timing and effortless delivery,” and hailed as
“the true scene-stealer.” He returned to Opera Arlington in time for the holidays as Peter (Father)
in Hansel and Gretel. In 2026, he will perform the roles of Karl Marx, Mr. Lister, and others in
Kevin Puts’s Elizabeth Cree with Opera Today! in Fort Wayne, IN.
Brandon has appeared as a soloist with the Dallas Bach Society, Irving Symphony, Voces
Intimae, and Amarillo Opera, performing major works such as Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s
Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, and numerous Bach cantatas.
His operatic repertoire also includes Ein Musiklehrer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Mr. Gedge (Albert
Herring), Achilla (Giulio Cesare), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Apollon/Pluton (La descente
d’Orphée aux enfers), Baron Douphol (La Traviata), and Melchior (Amahl and the Night
Visitors). With The Dallas Opera, he has performed the roles of Un commissionario in La
Traviata and Sergente dei doganieri in La Bohème.
Brandon holds degrees in Vocal Performance from Rice University and Southern Methodist
University.

Our soprano soloist for Bach Vespers BWV 69 at Zion Lutheran Church in Dallas at 6 pm this Sunday is Tracie Rasmussen-Da...
04/23/2026

Our soprano soloist for Bach Vespers BWV 69 at Zion Lutheran Church in Dallas at 6 pm this Sunday is Tracie Rasmussen-Davis.

Tracie Rasmussen-Davis, soprano, is excited to make her Bach solo debut in Dallas. A native of Pflugerville, TX, Tracie has been admired from a young age for her rich and powerful voice. After receiving vocal performance degrees from LSU (BM) and Roosevelt University (MM), she enjoyed an active career in Chicago singing with the Grant Park Chorus, William Ferris Chorale, and Chicago A Ca****la, among others. Since transitioning to Dallas in 2021, she has performed with the Dallas Bach Society, Lafayette Singers, and Collins Classical Carolers; she now serves as a cantor at Mary Immaculate Church and soprano section leader at Zion Lutheran Church and Temple Emanu-El, in addition to freelancing and teaching around the metroplex. When she’s not making music, she enjoys cooking, creating art, making and refinishing furniture, spending time with her husband and two energetic dogs, and discovering the best restaurants in Dallas. https://www.facebook.com/share/1CQrdgMkPx/

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