MARY ELLIOTT, soprano, has performed in numerous operas and musicals in the Chicago area and Nevada, and joins the West Suburban Symphony for the first time on October 9, 2005. An award-winning singer, she also has been a featured soloist in Handel's Messiah and Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 in Nevada and has performed as a member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Ms. Elliott maintains a voice studio of 40 students and lives in Aurora.