Natalie and Heather first met as professional Xmas carolers, then discovered they shared an involvement in the craft. They have spent many hours now sharing ideas, practices and rituals. Not to mention singing! They both now sing professionally in the same choir. More about each of them:

Heather Ward was born in the Toronto area of Ontario, Canada. She grew up in a multi-generation family of music teachers, choir directors, church organists and performers. She sang in choirs and musicals throughout school, but chose to attend art college after high school. She continued to act on stage, and began modeling in London Ontario, then Toronto. Film, TV and commercials soon followed, including 3 busy years in Calgary, but she continued to sing on stage. Heather moved to Vancouver BC in her mid 20s, and at the age of 30 she went back to school at VCC and Capilano College to take a music degree, with a major in Jazz Performance.

She was honoured to perform with her college vocal jazz ensemble Soundwave at the IAJE North American Conference, and twice with internationally famous Swedish vocal jazz ensemble The Real Group.

For several years thereafter she taught voice lessons and performed in Vancouver jazz venues, including the DuMaurier International Jazz Festival two years in a row, the Vancouver International Jazz Orchestra Workshop twice, the Banff International Workshop in Jazz & Creative Music, the Banff Vocal Jazz Summit, and the Centrum Port Townsend Jazz Festival twice.

After moving to Seattle and raising three children, she began to get back to singing and acting. She has been a performer and the Alto Section Leader with the Seattle Dickens Carolers company since 2005. She continues to act on stage and in film, teach voice lessons at the Seattle Voice Academy and at her home studio, do voiceover work, and sing in jazz venues and cabarets across the city, now often with two of her talented children.

Soprano Natalie Ingrisano enjoys performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and professional chorister in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest, and has also performed abroad (Urbania, Italy, 2008). She has sung for audiences that have ranged from intimate community concerts to large venues with 25,000 attendees (Chicago’s United Center, 2013). Favorite recent performances as a soloist include Bach’s Cantata 51, Bruckner’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres, Handel’s Messiah, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Magnificat, and Vespers, and the Monteverdi 1641 Vespers. She frequently appears on local Seattle concert series including Classical Uncorked, Bach’s Lunch, and Tinte Cellars’ Candlelight Concerts.  She founded the Classical Music Nights at Cafe Racer concert series and was co-artistic director of the series. As a professional chorister she thoroughly enjoyed her time in the renowned Grant Park Symphony Chorus (Chicago, IL) before relocating to Washington state. In Seattle she is now a resident member of the Mägi Ensemble and frequently performs with the Emerald Ensemble. In 2021 she joined the new professional choral ensemble The Benedict XVI for their inaugural season in San Francisco and won the soprano solo in the first concert.

Natalie recently finished recording her first 6-track solo album of baroque music with harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree which is now in the process of being mixed and mastered. She frequently appears with beloved east coast based Celtic band The Beggar Boys and enjoys performing regularly in a local Celtic trio as the lead singer as well. She has twice had the honor of performing the United States and French National Anthems at Alliance Française and City of Chicago’s Bastille Day celebration in Daley Plaza. As a chorister in 2013 she rocked it hard singing with the Rolling Stones.