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 returned to
Winter Opera in St. Louis for Frederic in
Pirates of Penzance. He returned to Opera
Project Columbus for Alfred in Die Fledermaus and
sang another Gala with Winter Opera St. Loiuis. He
makes his debut singing the Mozart Requiem with the
Hudson Valley Philharmonic on June 20. On Sunday
June 21 he performs an Italian Opera Concert at the Tower
Music Series at the reformed Chruch in Poughkeepsie NY at 3:30.
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 made 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 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. She recently 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.
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. He performed
Preferite Puccini e Verdii at the
Old Dutch Church in Kingston NY.
On Sunday June 21 he performs an Italian Opera Concert
at the Tower Music Series at the reformed Chruch
in Poughkeepsie NY at 3:30.
Tenor
KYLE ERDOS-KNAPP performed Puccini's Messa
Di Gloria with the Finger Lakes Choral Festival in Rochester
NY. He recently sang Toby in
Sweeney Todd for Michigan Opera Theater.
Soprano JENNY LINDSEY 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. He
makes his debut singing the Mozart Requiem with the
Hudson Valley Philharmonic on June 20. On Sunday June
21 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 June 21 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 Sunday June 21she
performs an Italian Opera Concert at the Tower Music
Series at the reformed Chruch in Poughkeepsie NY at 3:30. In September
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. He performed a concert with
Verissmo Opera in NJ. He is also
producing his first CD "REDD" which will be done in January. He returned
as a performer in Center Stage Spectacular with the
Leonard Nimay Thalia Theater Co.
at Symphony Space. On May 23 he returns to
Carnegie Hall with Mid-America Productions singing in
Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339.
Bass NATHAN RESIKA returned
to Carnegie Hall singing Ode to Napolean Buonaparte (Schoenberg/Lord
Byron) with Mimesis Ensemble. He recently sang a Gala concert
with NY Lyric Opera at Carnegie Hall.
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 made his debut with New York City
Opera in Stonewall. Ziwen
sang a recital with Forte International
at Opera America in NYC. 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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