stephanie torres de los santos
Stephanie Torres De Los Santos is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a consummate cabaret performer whose work lives at the intersection of music, character, and confession. With a background in musical theater, jazz, and dance, she approaches every song as a fully inhabited story, drawing audiences into worlds that are by turns seductive, tender, biting, and raw.
Stephanie’s theatrical roots run deep. Raised in a family of performers—her parents were an exhibition ballroom dance couple, and her mother an original Mouseketeer—she developed an early fluency in rhythm, movement, and stage presence. This lineage informs her instinctive connection to live performance and her ease in creating intimacy with an audience.
Her stage work includes roles such as Ado Annie (Oklahoma!), Adelaide (Guys and Dolls), Maria (West Side Story), Audrey (Little Shop of Horrors), and Edith (Grey Gardens), where her character-driven approach has consistently been at the forefront. Beyond traditional musical theater, Stephanie has found a natural home in cabaret, where storytelling and emotional truth take center stage.
Stephanie’s connection to the work of Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill is deeply personal. She had the rare opportunity to study with Elly Stone, a member of the original Broadway cast of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, while performing the title role in the original musical Miss Lulu. She appeared in investor showcases at New York’s John Houseman Theater as the production sought an Off-Broadway run.
Today, Stephanie performs regularly with the jazz/swing sextet The Swizzle Chicks, appears in original Broadway revue productions, and continues to explore the bold, provocative song worlds of Brel and Weill in collaboration with Sharon Fendrich. Whether in a jazz club or a theatrical cabaret, she is most at home when the lights are low, the story is honest, and the audience is leaning in.
Beth Kahlen
Beth Kahlen’s professional life has taken her to stages, studios and nightclubs around the world. Uniting her many experiences is a single, clear theme: the wonder and life-changing effect of the human voice.
As a singer, Beth experiences the transcendence and thrill of creating sound. As a teacher, she understands how one’s voice can be used as a tool in countless ways—voices can bond people, soothe them, reveal, convince and inspire them. Beth believes that there is potential and beauty in every voice. She is committed to making vocal study joyful and enlightening.
Beth received her Bachelor of Science degree in Speech Communication from Portland State University. Since then, she has pursued further studies in public speaking and studio speech, while also studying the performing arts—acting with Scott Kelman, songwriting with Chris Williamson, and vocal improvisation with Rhiannon. Beth has studied voice in the classical tradition for many years, and has professional training as a voice teacher.
After several years in television broadcasting, Beth turned her energy toward performance. Her travels took her to Brisbane, Australia where she was a member of the World ExpoCity Performance Ensemble and studied movement with Michael Mullins of Sydney.
Beth has played numerous theater and musical theater roles in community and professional companies. She spent several years on the road with bands performing in a variety of venues and styles. She also works throughout the Northwest with the Swizzle Chicks, a vocal jazz group that performs originals and standards.
Beth is a sought-after commercial voiceover talent and spokesperson. Since 2006 she has taught performers and businesspeople the skills of speech and singing technique, performance craft, studio speech for voice-over and broadcast, and presentation preparation.
CARRIE RAMBO
A dynamic and communicative vocalist, Carrie is known for her dulcet delivery of songs from the “Great American Songbook.” With a beautiful, lithe voice enclosing a steely center, she sings with stylistic perfection when interpreting classic tunes from the 1920s through the 1960s, most of which originated on the Broadway stage. These lasting American standards are loved and recognized the world over by generations of fans.
Carrie comes to the standard jazz repertoire from a diverse road and is adept at singing in a variety of styles—classical/legit, pop, musical theatre—and has sung as both soloist and ensemble singer in choirs, bands, musicals, opera and voiceovers, on stage and in the studio, as a back-up singer on the bandstand as well as in front of the mic.
Carrie began private voice lessons at age 14, and has been singing and studying voice ever since. One of her favorite jobs was spending a summer singing in a jazz quartet at the Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel in Interlaken, Switzerland. She has sung with local Portland bands (Swizzle Chicks, Cabaret Beret, Carl Smith Band), and the Portland Songwriters’ Association has recognized her and her bandmates (Swizzle Chicks) for original songwriting featured on the album, “Shakin,’ Not Stirred.” Carrie holds degrees in music and theatre,…and yes: she has sung on a cruise ship.
Legit singing appearances have included the Oregon Symphony and Portland Opera Chorus. As a soloist: Portland Cello Project (Cellodarity), 45th Parallel, Live at the Fries (Vancouver, WA), Music B.C. Charitable Foundation in Vancouver, B.C. As a singer and lyricist, Carrie has also collaborated with Grammy-nominated composer Michael Hoppe. She is a member of AEA, AGMA, ASCAP, and the Portland Theater Alliance