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TBF Resident Artists 2026
The TBF Resident Artists are some of the finest early music singers and players in the Pacific Northwest. The performers are both experienced ensemble artists as well as accomplished soloists and serve in both capacities at the festival. Members have performed at the Oregon Bach Festival, the Texas Bach Festival, with the American Bach Soloists, the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart and other leading early music festivals and ensembles.
Erin Calata, mezzo soprano
Known for her vocal clarity, versatile singing, and moving performances, mezzo-soprano Erin Calata readily sings a wide array of genres, with a special interest in Early Music, Art Song, New Music and choral works. As a freelance vocalist, she performs with many organizations locally and nationally including the Texas Early Music Project in Austin, Pacific Musicworks Underground in Seattle, and has also sung in past seasons with Seattle's Vox16 (now Radiance) and Cantaré Vocal Ensemble, the Oregon Bach Festival Berwick Chorus, Bellevue's City Opera Ballet, the Arizona Opera, Scottsdale Choral Artists, and the Stuttgart Festival Ensemble in Germany. She was chosen as a 2014 New Young Artist with the Victoria Bach Festival in Victoria, Texas and participated in the American Bach Soloists Academy in 2017. Ms. Calata is on the faculty of Pierce College.
Veronica Deraleau, soprano
Veronica G. Deraleau is a local soprano who has garnered attention as an expressive singing actress, recitalist, and collaborative artist in genres spanning opera, oratorio, orchestral,chamber, choral, contemporary, and film. She is thrilled to join as a Resident Artist for the 2026 Season of the Tacoma Bach Festival. Veronica’s 2025-26 season includes her debut with Vashon Opera as Spirit III in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Soprano Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with West Side Presbyterian, and Soprano Soloist in Bach Cantata BWV 111 with the Tacoma Bach Festival. In addition, Veronica proudly joins professional ensembles Pneuma BelPres in John, John, and Joh(a)n(n) and Resonance Ensemble in their premiere of the North American Indigenous Songbook, featuring a landmark collection of vocal music by Indigenous composers curated by Timothy Long. As a former musician for the U.S. Army, Veronica had the honor of performing across the country and abroad at various military and political events. Ms. Deraleau lives in Lacey, WA, with her husband, Mike, and their dogs, Phil and Minka. For more information, please visit www.veronicaderaleau.com.
Jacob Herbert, bass-baritone
​A native of Portland, Oregon, bass-baritone Jacob William Herbert has been praised by the Oregonian for his "consummate musicality." While earning his Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Arizona State University, Mr. Herbert had the great fortune to perform with the Phoenix Chorale (formerly the Phoenix Bach Choir) and can be heard as soloist on their Grammy Award winning album, "Spotless Rose: Hymns to the Virgin." This season's highlights include a period performance of Messiah with Spire Baroque Ensemble in Kansas City, where the Kansas City Star commended Mr. Herbert's singing as "consistent, high to low." As a strong proponent of Bach, he has been seen on stage with Seattle Baroque and Seattle Pro Musica, the Oregon Bach Festival, Festivalensemble Stuttgart, Junges Stuttgarter Bachensemble, Academia Internacíonal Teatro del Lago, and the American Bach Series at All Saints'. Mr. Herbert has toured extensively with the Internationale Bachakademie in Germany, South America, and North Africa.
Carson Truett Lott, tenor
Tenor Carson Truett Lott has appeared as a featured soloist with the Seattle Opera Creation Lab, Harmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Music at Epiphany, Cascadia Chamber Opera, Orpheus PDX, Inland Northwest Opera, the Musicking Conference, the Tacoma Bach Festival and more. Recent solo appearances include Pilate in Arvo Pärt's Passio with the St. James Cathedral Cantorei, Frederic in Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance with the Seattle Opera School Tour, and tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah with First Lutheran Richmond Beach. Carson holds music degrees from Seattle University and the University of Oregon, and can be heard singing regularly around Seattle with Evergreen Ensemble, the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Compline Choir of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, the choirs of Epiphany Parish where he works as a staff soloist and voice instructor, and many other local ensembles, including Seattle's newest professional vocal octet, Nothing Gold. Carson also teaches voice through ArtSmart, a nationwide organization bringing tuition-free music lessons to high schools across the US. In his free time, Carson loves nothing more than attending his students' performances, reading fantasy literature, playing Dungeons & Dragons, hand-drawing maps, and spending quality time with his two cats Bobby and Pepper, and his perfect wife, Lex.
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