Maestro
Giulherme Almeida was recently Muis
Director for Shakespeare in the Love with
Shakespeare Dallas..
ALISSA ANDRASKI
was recently a semi-finalist in the Rochester
Oratorio Competition.
Conductor
RAFFI ARMENIAN lives
in Montreal Canada. He is working on
several new recording projects.
He has recently finished a book "Guideline
for the Interpretation of beethoven Symphonies".
Director JOE
BANNO . His feature
film Sleeping and Waking
is now on
Netflix as a streaming video.
Tenorr PEDRO BARBOSA made his debut as Camille
in Lehar's Merry Widow at St. Petersburg Opera in Florida. He
also returned to Winter Opera in St. Louis for Frederic
in Pirates of Penzance. He returns to Opera
Project Columbus for Alfred in Die Fledermaus on
January 17 and 19. February 15 is another Gala with Winter Opera St.
Loiuis. He makes his debut singing the Mozart Requiem
with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic on March 28. On
Sunday March 29 he performs an Italian Opera Concert at the Tower
Music Series at the reformed Chruch in Poughkeepsie NY at 3:30. Immediately
following this is Don Ramiro in Rossini's La Cenerentola with
Salt Marsh Opera in Connecticut from April 6-10.
Director ANDREW BLOCK see
HR Artists Management. He also directed
Candide for the
Opus 1
Singers in NJ.
Mezzo Soprano LAURA
BRIOLI performed Amneris
in Verdi's
Aida
with Staatsoper
Hamburg . She also
performed the title role
in Zanetto by
Mascagni
as well as Zia Principessa
in Suor Angelica
at Opera de Rennes.
Baritone DAVID CASTILLO
performed The Story of
Broadway at the
Korean Cultural Center in LA on Jan 18.
He also performed in the world premier of Juan
Cloner's Dulcinea XL as Merlin at the Zipper
Center in LA.
Conductor/Pianist RICHARD CARSEY was recently
conducting Phantom
of the Opera and Carousel
on Broadway.
Conductor GERARD CHIUSANO has founded Opus 1 Singers
and
they have had several concerts. Their
Fall concert Halloween Spooktacular
included the debut of the Opus 1 Orchestra. Gerard
continued as Chorus Master with Oorchestra of St.
Peter by the Sea in NJ with Puccini's LaBoheme..
Tenor
BRETT COLBY performed Goro in
Madama Butterfly with
Orchestra of St. Peter by the
Sea and Candide with
Opus 1 Singers in NJ.
Conductor HERB DIMMOCK is Music Direcotr of the Herb Dimmock
Singers as well as
the prestigious Bach
in Baltimore Series in
Baltimore.
Bass-Baritone CARL DUPONT
is Assistant Professor
of Voice
at Peabody Conservatory
of Music in Baltimore Maryland. On february 14 and 16 he
makes his debut at Opera Columbus as Don Basilio in Rossini's
Il Barbiere di Sivilglia.
Soprano ISABEL DUPRE to our roster. She began
the Fall season with a recital at the Lincoln Center Library
on October 12 followed by an audition trip in Europe.
Maestro HENCO
ESPAG is Music Director of the
Lesbian and Gay Big Apple
Corps Symphonic Band
as well as Music Director of
Judson Memorial Baptist Church
in NYC.
We welcome
Israeli Countertenor DAVID FELDMAN to our roster.
On March 31he performed C.D. Cossoni's
Verper at Novantique
in Bern Switzerland. On April 7 he performed J.S.
Bach'sPassion with Bachkoor Brabant at
Barkokorfet Florilegium Musuicum in the
Netherlands. On April 12 he perfomed
J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passiom with
Ribahuta Musica at Sint janskerk in Gouda Netherlands.
Director JONATHON FIELD is
director
of opera at Oberlin Conservatory
of Music.
We welcome Polish American soprano MALGORZALA FLISZKIEWICZ
to our roster. On Nov. 15 she sang the music of Stanislaw Moniuska
at Carnegie Zankel Hall.
Tenor ORSON VAN GAY II performed Nemorino in Donizetti's
L'Elisir d'Amore with the Pheonicia Festival of the
Voice in New York State. He also performed in
Last Romance by Joe DiPietro at The New Theatre
in Kansas City. He returned to Pacific Opera Project
as Rudolfo in Puccini's La Boheme from Dec. 6-14. On feb.
21 he performs a concert for the Portsmouth Community Center
on their concert series in Virginia. On March 10 re sings a recital
at Rio Hondo College in LA.
Soprano LIANA GUBERMAN sang a recital in Keene
Valley NY. In October she was Elvira in a new production
of Mozart's Don Giovanni with Bare
Opera in NYC.
Soprano SUZAN HANSON sang Lillian Disney in the American
Premiere of The New
Americans by Philip Glass at
Long Beach Opera. She repeated
these roles in the opera at Chicago Opera
Theater.
HARWOOD MANAGEMENT
recently produceed a Jazz Show for
Woodstock Radio. They also produced
a showcase and concert at the Lincoln Center Library.
Bass
ERIC JOHNSON is
head of the opera department
at Syracuse
University.
We welcome soprano
ELIZABETH KELSAY to our roster.
Pianist CRAIG KETTER
is a busy soloist and accompanist in New
York and throughout the US. He performed in The Ullmann
Project Irvington NY Presbyterian Church. He also performed in
A Concert of New Music at the National Opera
Center in NYC. On May 16 he performed
Preferite Puccini e Verdii at the
Old Dutch Church in Kingston NY.
Tenor
KYLE ERDOS-KNAPP performed Puccini's Messa
Di Gloria with the Finger Lakes Choral Festival in Rochester
NY. In November and december he sang Toby in
Sweeney Todd for Michigan Opera Theater.
ANTHONY LAGRUTH is Music Director
of the Livingston Symphony
Orchestra in New Jersey as well as
Director of The North Shore Music Festival
on Long Island.. He was recently
guest conductor of the North
Shore Symphony Orchestra on Long Island conducting
a program of Tschaikovsky, Wagner and Brahms Symphony
#3. His summer schedule included concerts with
the Glen Rock Pops, lmusic lectures
and presentations, and Cosi fan tutte
with The North Shore Festival.
We welcome
JENNY LINDSEY to our roster. On July 12 she performed
Liu in Puccini's Turandot at the
Lincoln Center Library. She recently performed
in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers with
Opera
in Williamsburg in Virginia.
Conductor
DANIEL LIPSCHUTZ was Artistic
Director of
Florida Opera Festival
in Tampa Florida.
Tenor
ANTHONY P. McGLAUN was recentlyy part of the ensemble
of Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera
with performances from Sept. 23 to Feb.1..
Mestro
MATTHIAS MANASI - German Cionductor - mkes
his US orchestra debut with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra
on Saturday Feb. 15.at the Saddlebrooke DesertView Performing Arts center
in Arizona. The conccert featured music of Beethoven and
Strauss and he will also perform as pianist in le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
by Richard Strauss.
We welcome pianist/conductor
STEFANO MICELI to our roster. he is
a world renoned conductor and Steinway pianist.
Baritone
BRIAN MONTGOMERY was Frederich iin the
world premier of Dear Erich
by Ted Rosenthal at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
in NYC with New York City Opera. On
Sunday March 29 he performs an Italian Opera Concert at the Tower
Music Series at the reformed Chruch in Poughkeepsie NY at 3:30
Conductor
NIELS MUUS is Music Director
of Festival Steyr in Austria.
He is also conductor for
the Morphing
Chamber Orchestra in Vienna.
Librettist JOHN OLIN
is busy writing Opera Librettos
and working with composers
to make it all happen.
We welcome mezzo-soprano MARTINA PORTYCHOVA
to our roster. She performed a concert for Founders Day
at the Tenri Cultural Institute in NYC on Dec. 8. On Sunday
March 29 she performs an Italian Opera Concert at the Tower Music
Series at the reformed Chruch in Poughkeepsie NY at 3:30
Soprano DANA PUNDT returned to Longview Texas for Home
for the Holidays with Jerry Steichen and the Longview Symphony
Orchestra.. Dana made her debut with Opera Project Columbus
as Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus
on January 17 and 19. On Sunday March 29 she performs
an Italian Opera Concert at the Tower Music Series at the
reformed Chruch in Poughkeepsie NY at 3:30On April 17 and 19 she returns
to Boheme Opera in NJ for performances as Gilda in Rigoletto.
Baritone FREDERICK REDD
is preparing the making and release of his new
recording. He was an adjudicator for the William
Warfield Foundation in Rochestrer NY on Oct.
18 and 20. On November 2 he performed a concert with
Verissmo Opera in NJ. He is also producing his
first CD "REDD" which will be done in January. He returns as a performer
in Center Stage Spectacular with the Leonard Nimay
Thalia Theater Co. at Symphony Space
on Jan. 25.
Bass NATHAN RESIKA returned
to Carnegie Hall singing Ode to Napolean Buonaparte (Schoenberg/Lord
Byron) with Mimesis Ensemble. He sang a Gala concert with NY
Lyric Opera at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 16.
We welcome Maestro BYUNG Rhee to our roster.
Maestro Rhee is Music Director and Conductor
of Camerata New Jersey. He led a concert for competition
winners with his Camarata Orchestra at Merkin Hall in NYC on Feb.
16.
We welcome mezzo-soprano EMILY RIGHTER to our roster.
Soprano MICHELE
SEXTON
performed at St. Petersburg Opera
Company iin Florida as Lily Vanessi/Kate in Kiss Me Kate.
She also performed Broadway Summer Spectacular with Bristol
Riverside Theater in PA.
Soprano MARSHA THOMPSON performed a Charity Event in Honolulu.
On Jan 4 and 5 she made her debut as soprano soloist with the Hawaii
Symphony Orchestra singing Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
On March 28 she makes her debut with Teatro Municipal de Sao Paulo
in Brazil aining the title role in Verdi's Aida..
Conductor ERIC TOWNELL is currently Music Director
of the Rochester Choral Society. Eric is also
the director
of RESONANZ, a Rochester based
choral group. He is
Host/Producer of In
the Spotlight for Cable Access TV in Western
NY. Eric is Artistic Director of The
Finger Lakes Chioral Festival
and led the choir and orchestra in Puccini's Messa
Di Gloria.
Japanese-American soprano KAORI WILLIAMS has just released
her first album My Home My
Heart on Amazon. She performed
a trio recital at Ichigaya Hall in
Tokyo and made her debut with the China Philharmonic
Orchestra in Bejing singing Ravel's
Sheherazade with Maestra Zhang
Jiemin.
Conductor DAVID WROE is Music Director of the New Jersey
Festival Orchestra.
Please go to the web
site for concert information.
Tenor ZIWEN XIANG did a radio interview on
Woodstock Radio and performed
Preferite Puccini e Verdii at the
Old Dutch Church in Kingston NY. He
also made his debut with New York City Opera in
Stonewall. Ziwen sang a recital with
Forte International at Opera America in NYC.on
Oct. 27. On November 2 he performed a concert with
Verissmo Opera in NJ.. he appeared as a guest artist
for a recital at Carnegie Recital Hall on Nov. 29.
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