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Soprano ViIANCA ALEJANDRA was
a First Place Winner
in the Puerto Rico Distract Metropolitan Opera
Competition. Ms. Alajandra recently was in
Shanghai and NYC performing Aaron Zigman's Emigree with the
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. and the New York Philharmonic.
On March 17 she made her debut at Carnegie
Hall swith Mid America Productions singing Martini's
Domine ad Adjuvandum me Festina. This July she
will sing Norina in Don Pasquale at Festival of the Agean
in Greece. She will also perform other concerts.
Conductor
RAFFI ARMENIAN
resides in Montreal Canada.
He has recently finished
his booki "Guideline for
the Interpretation of beethoven
Symphonies".
Tenorr PEDRO
BARBOSA made his debut as Don Ramiro in Rossini's
La Cenerentola
with Salt Marsh Opera..In
November he performed in an Opera Gala for
Cincinnati Opera. He also performed a concert
for Cinncinati Opera..
Maestro RICHARD BARRETT led a production of Puccini's
Tosca with
Soo Opera.. He is a busy coach and voice teacher
in NYC.0
Soprano KAREN HUGHES
BEACOM performed the title role
Tosca with her opera company,
Soo Opera, at the
Soo Theater and Mission Point. She returned to Great
Lakes Chamber Orchestra for performances of
Messiah and Finzi. She performs
the title role in Floyd's Susannah this August 7,9,11with her opera
company, Soo Opera in Michigan.
Conductor/Pianist RICHARD CARSEY was recently
conducting
Phantom of the Opera
and
Carousel on
Broadway.
We welcome baritone JUNHAN CHOI to our roster.This Boston
based artist just did a performances of John in Naomi with Boston
Opera Collaborative. On March 1-10 he performs Fiorth Stone in
Eurydice with Boston Lyric Opera. Following
this is a gala concert with Cambridge Chamber Ensemble.
Conductor GERARD CHIUSANO founded Opus 1 Singers
and they
have had several concerts.
He is completed
his third opera based on
Thurst is
based on the historical novel by Mary Donnarumma
Sharnick. He just finished writing
the music for a PBS mini-series
Stars
on Stage. Thehe
Rutgers University Orchestra
did a reading of his
new symphony. PBS channel 13 hsd his
composition on the air. He also led a semi-staged
version of Mozart's Cosi
fan tutti at
Opera America
in NYC. There was a reading of a portion
of his new opera The Dream
with the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra
in NJ.
Soprano
SARAH JOYCE COOPER performed Clotilde in Bellini's
Norma with the Boston Youth Symphony
at the Sanders Theatre in Boston. She also performed a benefit
concert for the Milton Mass Food Pantry. Sarah
performed as Micaela in Carmen (Peter Brook) with
Boston Opera Collaborative. Sarah made her debut with the Ridgefield
Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut as soloist in
the Strauss 4 Last Songs on April 27. She returned to Carnegie
Hall on May 25 as soprano soloist in Bond's Ballad of the
Brown King. On June 18 she performed a GALA concert for the Geneva
Light Opera. This Summer she returned to the Bar Harbor Music
Festival performing a recital on July 20 and Mozart's
Exsultate Jubilate with orchestra on July
29. This Fall she makes her debut with the Seattle Opera as Minnie
Tate in Jubilee a n opera by Tazwell Thompson. This is also
a world premier with performances from Oct. 12 - 26. From Sept.
9 to 14 she will present some recitals produced by Seattle Opera as
and 5th Avenue Theatre.
Mezzo-soperano ALYCE DAUBENSPECK
She performwd Alise in Lucia di Lammermoor with
the NJ Festival Orchestra on Feb 17. On March 17 she
makes her debut at Carnegie Hall swith Mid America Productions
singing Martini's Domine ad Adjuvandum
me Festina. She sang Haydn's Lord Nellson Mass
with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
on April 27. In May she sang Ruth in The Pirates
of Penzance with Raylynmor Opera
in New Hampshire.Ms Daubenspeck is moving to Germany
this summer. She is doing a recital on Sunday July 28 at the Union
Congregational Church in Montclair NJ. The concert is at
noon.
Conductor HERB DIMMOCK is Music Direcotr of the Herb Dimmock
Singers as well
as the prestigious
Bach in Baltimore
Series in
Baltimore. See web site for performance dates.
Bass-Baritone
CARL DUPONT
is Assistant Professor
of Voice
at Peabody
Conservatory
of Music in Baltimore Maryland.
He made his debut with New York City Opera
as Colline in Puccini's La Boheme.in
Bryant Park in NYC. Hhe made his debut with Maryland
Opera with excerpts from Faust as Mephistopheles.
He returnred to Bach in Balktimore for
Bach's Mass in B minor on Feb. 4.
On June 2 he performed music of Anthony Davis at the
Virginia Arts Festival in Norfolk VA. He
repeats this concert on June 10 at the Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum
in Bolton Landing NY.
We welcome tenor ETHAN ELLIS to our
roster. On March 17 he made his debut at Carnegie Hall swith
Mid America Productions singing Martini's Domine ad Adjuvandum
me Festina and Mendelssohn's Psalm 42. He
performed Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Regina Opera
in Brooklyn from May 11-19. On May 18 he performed Gaston in La Traviata
at the Newhouse Center on Staten Island NY..
In July he performs concerts and operas at Festival
of the Agean in Greece.
Israeli Countertenor
DAVID FELDMAN performed
C.D.
Cossoni's Verper
at Novantique
in Bern Switzerland.
He performed
J.S. Bach'sPassion
with Bachkoor Brabant
at
Barkokorfet Florilegium
Musuicum in the
Netherlands. He also perfomed
J.S. Bach's St.
Matthew Passiom with
Ribahuta
Musica at Sint janskerk in Gouda
Netherlands.
Soprano SUZAN HANSON has redirected her career to being
a
director and singer. She returned
to Utah Festival Opera directing
Wagner's Lohengrin this past Summert. She is very
busy in the LA area teaching voice and directing opera productions.
HARWOOD MANAGEMENT
produced a new roster video
"Heart of
Opera". It is on youtube
at
.https://youtu.be/mCffG-j31YI.
Jim did workshops and clinics at Pace University
Hewass a panelist on the CS Music Auditions in NYC on Feb.
18 and 19. He was a guest panelist for Berklee School of Music
and Pace University in the Spring.
We welcome tenor JESUS DANIEL
HENANDEZ to our roster.
MADDIE HERTEL is a singer,
dancer, and choreographer. She is covering in
Sonbird ay Wahington National Opera from March
9-24.
We welcome Bass JOHN PAUL HUCKLE
to our roster.
Pianist
CRAIG
KETTER
is a busy soloist and accompanist in New
York and throughout the US. He performed
an Italian Opera Concert
at the
Tower Music Series
at the reformed Chruch in Poughkeepsie
NY. He performed Beethoven's
Piano Sonata Op. 109 and a
Beethoven 4 piano arrangement
at the
Clayton
Piano Festival
in North Carolina. Go to
the Clayton Piano Festival
website for the livestream. Craig returned to
the South Orange Symphony in NJ as soloist
playing Rachmaninov 2d Piano Concerto..
Soprano
JENNY LINDSEY made her debut
as soprano soloist in the Pergolesi
Stabat Mater at Carnegie
Hall in NY with Mid-America Productions.
Maestro ERIC MAHL currently Music Director
of Geneva Light
Opera,
Music Director of Orchestra One,
Associate Conductor of Greenwich
Village Orchestra, Conductor
of the Philharmonic Orchestra at Third
Street Music School in NYC, and Music
Director of Western
Connecticut Youth Orchestra. He arranged several
paino works of Nathaniel Dett for orchestra with the Northyport
Symphony Orchestra. On April 27 he was
guest conductor with the Ridgefield Symphony
Orchestra .The repertiore for this concert is Sibelius Finlandia
Overture, Strauss 4 Last Songs, and Shostakovich Symphony #5. He was
also named Conductor of the Ridgefield
Symphony Orchestra for the 2024-25 season. He returned
to Geneva Light Opera for performances of Cascada abd covering
Baron Zeta in Lehar's Die Lustige Witwe on July 26-28. He then returns
to the Ives Festival in Connecticut.
Director JAMIBETH MARGOLIS
is busy at Pace U. and as a casting director in
NYC. She directed a semi-staged production
of Cosi fan
tutti at
Opera America.
Tenor MORGAN MASTRANGELO
performed as Gastone in Verdi's La
Traviata with City
Lyric Opera in NYC. He performed as tenor soloist
in Orff's Carmina
Burana with Mid-America at Carnegie
Hall on May 13and returned to Carnrgir Hall
as soloist in Forrest's
Requiem for the Living
on June 25.
On May 25 and 26 he made his debut at
Wichita Grand Opera as Count Almaviva in
Thje Barber of Seville. He isa currently at
NEC to get a masters degree. Morgan covered Ramiro
in Rossini's La Cenerentola with
Boston Lyric Opera in November In February
he covered Hades in Eurydice at BLO.
We welcome pianist conductor STEFANO MICELI to our roster.
On June 15 he performed a concert at the Bethpage Public Library.
He is a judge for the International Mozart Competition and
performing concerts in Budapest Hungary.
Baritone
BRIAN MONTGOMERY sang
Don Alfonso in Mozart's Cosi
fan tutte in "Opera Reads" at Opera
America. He made his debut with
Salt Marsh Opera
in the lead role in Gianni Schicchi and
Judge in Trial by Jury.
Brian was in Clearwater Fl. for a performance of Verdi's
McBeth with Opera for Earth.
He performed Michele in Il
Tabarro with Regina Opera in Brooklyn.
On May 15 through August 7 he performed Telramund in Wagner's
Lohengrin as well as Dr. Gibbs in
Our Town at
Utah Festival
Opera. He returned to Regina Opera
in Brooklyn for performances of Rigoletto inNov
11 and 17.
Mezzo-soprano
MARTINA PORTYCHOVA was pleased
to be a Semi-finalist
in the
Premiere Opera
Foundation
and NYIOP International Vocal Competition
as well as the
Music International Grand
Prix Competition.
She sang Dorabella in Mozart's
Cosi fan tutte in "Opera
Reads" at Opera America. She just
received her MMusic in vocal performance from the
University of Arizona
and is currently finishing her DMA.
She is also on the Administrative
staff of the Tucson Desert Song
Festival. On March 23-25 she performed new composer
works at the U. of Arizona followed by the title
role in Peter Brook's Carmen
on April 14 and 16 and a doctoral recital.
Soprano
DANA PUNDT performed a recital
with Brad Caldwell as pianist.
This is a part of the
Spectrum Workshop
Series on line. The composers
included Poulenc, Rachmaninoff,
Strauss, Pasatieri, and Cipullo. To
see and hear this recital please go
to Spectrumworkshops.com Highlight
Media and link to her recital.
She recently performed a concert for Cinncinati
Opera and returned to sing
Regnava nel silencio for another event.
We welcome mezzo-soprano OLA RAFALO
to our roster. She returned to Sotto Voce Vocal
Collective in Buffalo for her first Princuipessa
in Suor Angelica. She spends much of the season at
Chicago Lyric Opera in various productions including Aida..On May
23 she performed Mahler's Symphony #2
with the Eugene Symphony.
Bass-baritone
ELIAM RAMOS returned to Bach in Baltimore for
Bach's Cantata 33. March 17 was Carnegie Hall as soloist
in Martini's Domine and Adjuvandum me Festina and Mendelssohn
Psalm 42 with Mid-America Productions.. He
also performed the role of Doctor in Daniel Schlosberg's
The Extinctionist with Heartbeat
Opera at the Baruch Center in NYC. He sang Haydn's
Lord Nellson Mass with the
Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
on April 27. On May 23 and 29 he performed
new works with American Opera Projects in conjuntion
with Tisch Opera Lab. On July 10 at Marine Park he performs a Verdi
Puccini Concert with Regina Opera. He
returns to Geneva Light Opera for performances
of Cascada abd covering Baron Zeta in Lehar's Die Lustige Witwe on
July 26-28.
Director ANNA REBEK is a graduate
of Yale and Columbia
Universities. Recently
she directed Tosca at Soo Opera
in Michigan. She directed selections by Arvo
Part and Cecilia McDowell called Dreamscape
at Co-Cathederal of St. Joseph in Brooklyn. On
Nov. 18 she directed Paul Frutch's A More Perfect
Union with Greenwich Village Orchestra
in NYC In August she returns to Soo Opera
directing Floyd's Susannah.
Baritone FREDERICK
REDD is preparing and
producing his first CD "REDD".
He is on the Board
of Directors for the
William Warfield Foundation.
He has
produced many videos for both
Harwood Management
and Hr Artists
Management. He also did workshops
and clinics at RIT
in Rochester. . Fred , VP of PACO Group was recognized
as on of the trailblazers who has shaped the Port Authority
of NY and NJ durting Black History Month. On April
27 he will be soloist in The Year of the Jubilee by Harvey
Brough with the Rochester Choral Society. On May
11 he will sing Bennett's arrangement of Porgy and Bess
with the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. He
returned to Carnegie Hall for a concert with Mid-America
Productions on May 25 as be bass soloist in Bond's Ballad of the
Brown King.
Maestro BYUNG Rhee
is Music
Director and Conductor
of Camerata
New Jersey. He lwads a concert
for competition winners
with his Camarata Orchestra at
Merkin
Hall in NYC on March 26.. For
info on Camerata
New Jersey
please go to http://www.cameratanewjersey.org/
Counter-tenor, tenor ZABRIEL
RIVERS he made his debut as counter-tenor soloist
in the Pergolesi Stabat
Mater at Carnegie Hall
in NYC with Mid-America Productions.
Zabriel has a new one man show "A Gullah Evening with
Zabriel." This production is available
for performances. It is sponsored by the South Carolina
Arts Commission. On April 27 he was soloist in The Year of
the Jubilee by Harvey Brough with the Rochester Choral
Society. He returned to Carnegie Hall for a concert
with Mid-America Productions on May 25 as bass soloist in
Bond's Ballad of the Brown King.
Bass VALARIAN RUMINSKI tto our roster. He
is Artistic Director of Nickel
City Opera in Buffalo. He performed Colline in
Puccini's La Boheme with
Teatro Lirico in Brookings South
Dakota. He sang as bass soloist in Handel's Messiah
with the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus. He also
performed Raimondo in Lucia de Lammermoor with
New Jersey Festival Orchestra .. On April 13 he
returned to Carnegie Hall for a performance of Mozart's
Coronation Mass with Mid America Productions.
Following this he was soloist in Hayden Mass
with the Putnam Chorale in Brewster and Beacon NY.
ROCKY E. SELLERS
performied in many operas this season
with the Metropolitan Opera.
On New Year's Eve he made his
Metropolitan Opera Debut as Nicola
in Giordano's Fedora.. Last season he was
in a live stream workshop if Lisa DeSplain's new opera
The Hell-Bound Train at
Opera America. Rocky also joined
American Opera Projects
for a reading of a new work
Precipice at Hunter College
This
season he will be 2nd Arored Man in The Magic
Flute ad well as Commissioner in Madama
Butterfly and cover for Duke of Verona in Romeo
and Juliette at The Metropolitan Opera.
On Dec. 12 he made his debut with New York City
Opera as bass soloist in a Christmas Concert at
Bryant Park in NYC.
Soprano
MICHELE SEXTON
she read and recorded Was One in my
Hand from Gerard Chiusano's new opera
The Dream with the Rutgers
Symphonty Orchestra in NJ. On June 3 she
made her Carnegie
Hall debut singing as soprano
soloist in the Faure Requiem with Mid-America Productions.
She was also a judge for the
Ms. New Jersey Pageant in
Atlantic City.
Maestro TOSHIYUKI SHIMADA is a well established
Maestro.. He is presently Music Director
and Conductor of the Eastern Connecticut
Symphony Orchestra, the New Britain Symphony
Orchestra as well as the Orchestra of the Southern
Finger Lakes. Please see their web sites for Performance
dates. He was recently guest conductor with the Connecticut Orchestra.
On September 22 and 24 he joins other alumnaue with The Portland Maine
Symphony Orchestra for performances of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
Bass SAM SMITH sang a recital
for the Wmen's Club at Mt. Albans Presbyterian
Church in Cincinnati. He sang Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata
at Cincinnati Opera June 27, 29, 30.
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
. On Sunday July 28 the Festival will
present "St. Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass" and Misa Criolla.
The performance will be at Hochstein Performance Hall in Rochester at
8pm. This is a benefit concert..
Soprano MELISSA WIMBISH is constantly touring with her Outcalls
(Band). She returned to Bach
in Balktimore for Bach's Mass
in B minor.. She also performed Weill's Seven Deadly Sins
with PostClassical Ensemble
at the National Gallery in Washington
DC. On February 11 she performed Harlem's Little Blackbird
by Renee Watson with the Charina Chamber Players at St. Marks
in DC. .On April 27 she was soloist in The Year of the Jubilee
by Harvey Brough with the Rochester Choral Society.
This Summer she performs at the Yellow Barn in Vermont
and with trhe Windham Chamber Music Festival in NY State.
Conductor DAVID WROE is Music Director of the New Jersey
Festival Orchestra.
Please
go to the web site
for concert information.
Tenor ZIWEN XIANG was in a movie of La Boheme
is now in theaters thoughout Japan. On October
27 he made his debut with the Rochester
Oratorio Society as tenor soloist in
Hailstork's "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes" .In
November he performed a recital at Opera America. On
Feb. 25 he did a reading of Randall Eng's new opera Norfolk
at NYU. He sang Haydn's Lord Nellson
Mass with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony
Orchestra on April 27. Ziwen has been
welcomed into the inner circle of NYC dignitaries including the likes
of Mayor Eric Adams who he has sung for on several occasions. On August
24 he performs aan outdoor opera concert at Great Neck Park in LI.
We welcome Italian baritone NICOLA ZICCARDI to our roster.
We represent
him in the Americas. He performed
at the Musikverein in Vienna
in a Mozart concert
and performed as Marcello
in La Boheme with
Teatro Magnani Fidenza
in Italy. He ia currewntly
performing in Germany and at
Teatro de Giglio Luccca.
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