AWARD-WINNING SOLOISTS in Chicago

David Katz, left, founding music director of the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra and chief judge of The American Prize national nonprofit comptitions in the performing arts, welcomed soloists soprano Penelope Shumate, and baritone Stephen Lancaster, winners of The American Prize Chicago Oratorio Award, for the performance he conducted of the Brahms German Requiem with the CBASO and the Chicago Bar Association Chorus at Saint James Cathedral this week.