Benjamin Rivera, artistic director of Cantate since 2000, is a tenured member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Grant Park Chorus and Chicago a cappella.  With these and other groups, he has shared the stage with many of today’s foremost musicians.  He appears regularly as a soloist throughout the Midwest, often in the works of Bach.  He holds the Master of Music degree in Music Theory from Roosevelt University and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in conducting at Northwestern University.