Conductor
RAFFI ARMENIAN lives in Montreal Canada.
He is working on several new recording
projects. He led performances
of Cunning Little Vixen
at Opera Laurier in Canada.
Director JOE BANNO
. His feature
film Sleeping
and Waking is now
on Netflix as a streaming video.
.
Tenor MATTEO BENVENUTI performs Dancaire
in Bizet's Carmen at Teatro G. Verdi in
Montecatini It.in November. He performed Goro in Puccini's
Madama Butterfly at Teatro Politeama
in Pratese It.
Tenor CARLOS
BERRIOS is busy with concerts and performing
events in Western Massachusetts. He sang a ceremony
for MIFA in Holyoke Mass.
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
on Jan. 30.
Conductor/Pianist RICHARD CARSEY is currently conducting Phantom of the Opera and Carousel
on Broadway.
Conductor GERARD CHIUSANO has founded Opus 1 Singers
and they have had two concerts. Their
Fall concert Halloween Spooktacular included the debut
of the Opus 1 Orchestra.
Soprano
ERICA COCHRAN
recently performed Sleeping Beauty at the
Storybook Musical Theatre in PA. She performed
Messiah at 1st Baptist Church in Opelika Alabama.
Tenor BRETT COLBY performed Goro
in Madama Butterfly with
Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea and
Candide with Opus 1 Singers
in NJ.
Mezzo-soprano BRI COOPER ran for the US Congressional
Seat District 8 in Maryland.
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 University of North Carolina
at Charlotte. He performed
Hortensius in Donizetti's La fille du Regiment with Opera
Carolina and performs Zuniga in Bizet's Carmen
with Toledo Opera on Feb. 8.
We welcome soprano ISABEL DUPRE to our roster.
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.
Director JONATHON FIELD is
director of opera at Oberlin Conservatory
of Music.
Mezzo-soprano CLAIRE GALLOWAY performs a fund raising concert
New Opera Concert in Baltimore Md. on Nov. 19. On January 12 and 13
she performs as Barbara Thames in Francis Pollock's Stinney at
Florence Gould Hall in NYC. She performs in
a program of Love Song Waltzes with The Chamber Music Socirty
of Maryland at Towson Unitarian Universalist Church in Lutherville
Md. on March 19/
Tenor ORSON VAN GAY II performed the title role in
Candide with A Noise Within in Pasadena CA. On
Dec. 8 and 9 he performed as tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah
at 1st Baptist Church in Opelika
Alabama.
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.
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 Nov. 11. he
also performed in A Concert of New Music at the National
Opera Center in NYC on Dec. 13.
Tenor KYLE
ERDOS-KNAPP performed
Mika Magadoff in Menotti's Consul with
Chicago 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.
Conductor
DANIEL LIPSCHUTZ was Artistic Director of
Florida
Opera Festival in Tampa Florida.
Tenor
ANTHONY P. McGLAUN performed Benny Paret
Champion by Terence Blanchard in
his debut at New Orleans
Opera. He performed in Summerking at Michigan
Opera Theater.
Maestro MATTHIAS MANASI was named Music
Director of Nickel City Opera
in Buffalo NY. He was seen playing and conducting
the world premier of A Bad Man's Life at Kammeroper
Schloss Rheinsberg Festival.
Director
JAMIBETH MARGOLIS recently
directed composer Martin Halpern's new opera
Last Wishes at Shetler
Studios in NYC.
We welcome pianist/conductor STEFANO MICELI to our roster. he
is a world renoned conductor and Steinway pianist.
Mezzo-soprano INBAL MILLIGER recently sang Handel's
Messiah with thye Rotation Ensmble in NYC.
Baritone
BRIAN MONTGOMERY will be Frederich iin the world premier
of Dear Erich by Ted Rosenthal at the Museum of Jewish
Heritage in NYC with New York City Opera. Performances are
Jan. 9, 10,12.and 13.
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.
Conductor JUSTIN PAMBIANCHI was assistant conductor
of La finta giardiniera under John Colaneri
at Julliard. Following this he
returned to Sarasota Opera as assistant conductor
for Carmen, Norma, and Tiefland.
We welcome Christopher Plaas to our roster. He recently sand Arturo
in Lucia di Lammermoor with Knoxville Opera. He makes
his debut with Salt Marsch Opera as Monastatos in Mozart's Magic
Flute on April 22-26.
Baritone FREDERICK REDD performed
3 Haydn works with the Putnam Chorale
in Westchester. He is also preparing the making and release
of his new recording. In November he competed in another Iron Man
Competition in Cozumel Mexico. On Saturday Feb.
2 he performed in The Creative Stage Spectacular at Symphony
Space in NYC.
Bass NATHAN RESIKA made his debut
at Carnegie Hall as soloist in Haydn's Mariazeller
Mass and Beethoven's Mass in C with
Mid-America Productions. He spent November in Slovenia competing
in the World Senior Chess Championship. On feb. 23 and 24 he
performs Monterone in Verdi's Rigoletto with Hudson Opera
Theatre in Monroe NY.
Soprano MICHELE
SEXTON performs "Flavors of Puccini" - Il Trittico
with the Metropolitan
Opera Guild. She also sang in An American Singers
Songbook with Bristol Riverside Theater Dec. 6-16.
At St. Petersburg Opera Company iin Florida she performed Lily
Vanessi/Kate in Kiss Me Kate from Feb 2-10, 2019.
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. He returned to The Finger Lakes Chioral Festival
to conduct the Berloiz Requiem where he is now
conductor.
Director MURIEL VON VILLAS continues her private studio in
Washington
DC. She also directed La Comte
Ory for
Opera Company of Brooklyn.
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 on September
29 and made her debut with the China Philharmonic Orchestra in
Bejing singing Ravel's Sheherazade with Maestra Zhang Jiemin on
November 11.
Conductor DAVID WROE is Music Director of the New Jersey
Festival Orchestra. Please
go to the web site for concert information.
We welcome ZIWEN XIANG to our roster. He sings excerpts
from Verdi's Rigoletto with Grand Stage International on
Saturday March 2 at Opera America in NYC. On March 3 he performs a
Spring Concert with Sino US Artist Association
at Flushing Town Hall Queens NY.
Director RAYMOND ZILBERBERG recently directed Into the Woods
at St. Petersberg Opera in Florida. He was assistant
director for a new production of Samson and Delilah at Virginia
Opera.
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