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Soprano ViIANCA ALEJANDRA was
a First Place
Winner
in the Puerto Rico Distract
Metropolitan Opera Competition.
She returned to Carnegie
Hall for
performances of Mozart's Regina coeli
K.276 and the Bach Magnifical
with Mid-America at Carnegie
Hall. On November 9 she won Second
Place in the Nats
Competition in NYC On Sat. April
18 she made her debut wwith the Dessoff Choirs led
by Malcolm Merriweather sining excerpts from Bach's
Mass in B Minor at the Mother AME Zion Church in Harlem. She will
be an ens./ soloist with the New York Philharmonic on April 30
and May 1,2. She performed in Ellen Reid's Earth between Oceans
in the NY Premiere led by Maestro Dudamel. She made her debut with
Union Av. Opera as Hodel in Bock's
Fiddler on the Roof form July 3-11.
Conductor
RAFFI ARMENIAN resides
in Montreal Canada.
He has recently
finished his book "Guideline
for the Interpretation
of beethoven Symphonies".
Maestro RICHARD
BARRETT led a production of
Puccini's Tosca with
Soo Opera..
He is a busy coach and voice teacher in NYC.
Soprano KAREN HUGHES BEACOM performed
the title role in Floyd's Susannah
with her opera company,
Soo
Opera in Michigan. She is producing
concerts and doing musicals throughout the year in Michigan.
She performed the Countess and produce
Marriage of Figaro with her
Soo Opera Co. She performed as Soprano
soloist in Handel's Nessiah
with Great Lakes Chamber
Orchestra on Dec. 11 and 12. This
Summer she performs Nedda in Paliacci with Soo Opera on August
9..
Conductor/Pianist RICHARD CARSEY was recently
conducting Phantom
of the Opera
and Carousel
on
Broadway.
Baritone JUNHAN CHOI made his debut as
Schaunard in Puccini's La Boheme with the
Cambridge Symphony Orchestra in Boston at the
Grege Auditorium. He performed in Boston Lyric Opera's
Gala "Ride of the Valkyres" at Sowo
Power Station in Boston. Hewas soloist in the Lord Nelson Mass
with Cambridge Community Chorus on Dec. 14. He
performed Pantheus in Berlioz's Les Troyens a Carthage with
the Boston Youth Symphony at Sanders Theatre on Jan. 25. On
Feb 22 he performed "A Feast of Remembrance" with The
Boston Cecilia at NEC. On June 21 he made his debut
with Mid-America Productions at Carnegie Hall singing
the Faure Requiem. On July 24 to Aug. 1 he will make his
debut with Union Av. Opera in St. Louis singing Belcore in Donizetti's
L'elisir d'amore.
Conductor GERARD CHIUSANO 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. Gerard
did arrangements and orchestrations for
"Broadway Scores" a a concert with the
Waterbury Symphony Orchestra in
Connecticu.
Soprano
SARAH JOYCE COOPER performed a
concert with Kindred Arts in Milford PA. She alsosang as
soloist in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy
with the New England Conservatory Expanded Education
Division. On March 28 she sang Samuel Barber's
Hermit Songs and
a few Spirituals at St. Agatha-St.John Parish
in Philadelphia Ms. Cooper sings Beethoven's Symphony #9 with
the Ridgefield Symphony on April 18. On April 26 she returned
to Mid-America as soloist forthe premiere of Mark Hayes
"Psalmos" at Carnegie Hall. On April
30 she performed a concert of Highlights from Elixir of
Love for the 60th anniversary of the Bar Harbor Music
Festival. The concert and dinner will be at the Kosciusko
Foundation in NYC. She sang Bennett's arrangement of Porgy
and Bess and Nicolas Hersh's
We Shall Overcome with the NEC Youth Philharmonic
an Jordan Hall in Boston on May 20. On July 2 she performed an American
Songbook concert with the Bar Harbor Music Festical. As
artistic director she will perform as Violetta
in Verdi's La Traviata with Opera Arcadia in Maine on Aug.
21 and 22.
Soprano KAHLI DALBOW
performed Georgetta in Il Tabarro with
Boulder
Opera on Feb. 7-9. In July and in August
she performs the title role of Ariadne
in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Trentino Music
Fesival in Italy. She has beeen performing throughout
the season with Utah Opera.
We welcome mezzo-soprano CAMRYN DEWAR
to our roster.
Distinguished Conductor HERB DIMMOCK is Music Director
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. Carl returmedt to
Carnegie Hall and
Mid-America productions for performances
of the Vivaldi Magnificant
and the Monteverdi Magnificat. On Dec. 5 he returned to
Opera Saratoga for a performance as
Colline in Puccini's La Boheme. On Dec. 23 he was soloist
at the Kennedy Center for the annual Messiah
Sing A-long. In March he sang Only The Air music of J.S. Bach
with the In Series in DC. On June 27 was his
debut with Bershire Chorale Festival singing as bass soloist in
Dame Ethel Smith's Mass in D. On July 12 was his debut with
the Oregon Bach Festival as bass soloist in Margaret Bond's Credo.
Tenor ETHAN ELLIS
returned to Carnegie Hall
and Mid-America Productions as a soloist
in Monteverdi Magnificat. This
Summer was Tamino in Magic Flute with Chicago Summer
Opera. On Dec 7 and 14 he sang Handel's Messiah with
Bach in Baltimore. On
April 26 he returned to Carnegie
Hall and Mid-America Productions
for performances as soloist in Mozart's Coronation
Mass as well as the Forrest Requiem for the Living. He
sang Remendado in Bizet's Carmen with Regina Opera in Brooklyn.
Argentinian soprano MARIS JOSE FABARA resides
in Colorado. She performed Norina in Donizetti's
Don Pasquale
with Ft. Collins Opera. Last
Summer she performed Micaela in Bizet's
Carmen with the Equadorian
Symphony in Quita Equador. She also performed
Opera in the Park "Be;;a Voce"
with Boulder Opera. She also returned to
Boulder Opera as Adina in
Elixir of Love.
Soprano SUZAN HANSON
has redirected her
career to being
a director and singer.
She returned to
Utah Festival
Opera directing Wagner's Lohengrin.
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.
Tenor JESUS DANIEL HENANDEZ
performed a Italian Opera Concert
with the Eastern Connecticut
Symphony Orchestra to celebrate Toshi
Shimada's 15th season with the orchestra. He also performed
in a world premier opera "To the
People Like Us" with White Snake Opera
in Boston. On September 25 he performeduu at an event for
Mexican designer Celestino Couture
at Walkway on the Hudson in Poukeepsie
NY. On October 12 he performed an Italian Concert
at the Italian Festival
in Kingston NY sponsored by the Ulster
County Italian American Foundation. On Nov. 16 he performs
Tony in Terrence McNally's Masterclass as
well as other music at SER restaurant in Arlington VA. On
November 30 he returns to perform in a Music Salon Series in
Falls Church VA. On December 11 he sang
a program at the Zanesville Museum of Art in
Ohio. He also repeated Mc
Nally's Masterclass in Barcelona Spain.
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..He
performedan Italian evening at the
Old Dutch Church in Kingston NY
and performed a program for the Business
Council for International Understanding in NYC.
On June 14 he will be pianist for the Long Island Composer's Alliance
at the South Huntington Public Library.
We welcome tenor SCOTT RUBEN LA MARCA to our
roster. He just received his MA from Yale School of Music.
On May 29 and 30 he performed with Artek's Madrigal Madness
Series in NYC. This Summer he sings Azor in Andre Gretry's
Zémire et Azor with Berkshire Opera
Festival on 7/31 and 82 along with performances as Nrmano in Lucia
di Lammermoor. On October 11 and 13 he
makes his debut at the Daegu Opera House in Korea as Ping in Puccini's
Turandot.
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 has been named Music Director in
a multi-year contract with the Ridgefield
Symphony Orchestra. He is also currently
Music Director
of Northport
Symphony Orchestra, Arcadia Opera co. In addition he
is on the faculy of the Charles
Ives Music Festival. He
began his reign as Music Director with the Ridgefield
Symphony Orchestra on Feb. 8. On July 15 and 16 made
his debut as Music Director and conductor of L'Elise
d'amore with the Bar Harbor Music Festival
in Maine.
He brought his musical and teaching talents to the
Charles Ives Music Festival
in Connecticut. On Sept. 27 he led the opening concert
with the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra. Dec
6 was the next performance followed by a concert on Feb. 7.
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.
Baritone
BRIAN MONTGOMERY
lives in NYC and Asia. Brian sang at Opera in the
Ozarks as a part of the 75th
Gala Event.. Brian returned to
Carnegie Hall and sang
the Mozart Requiem
and Vesperae solemnes de confessore
with Mid-America
Productions. He was recently appointed asst. professor of voice
at Utah State University.
Mezzo-soprano
MARTINA PORTYCHOVA received
her MMusic in vocal performance from
the University of
Arizona and is currently
finishing her DMA. She was
also on the Administrative staff of
the Tucson
Desert Song Festival. She continues to finish
her degree in the Fall. On March 23 she sang
Beethoven's 9th
Symphony with the New Britain
Symphony Society. On August 6,8,10 she performed Marcelena
in Mozart's Le Nozze di
Figaro with Soo Opea in Michigan. She performed
as Mezzo-Soprano soloist in Handel's Nessiah
with Great Lakes Chamber
Orchestra on Dec. 11 and 12. On April 5 she
made her debut with Mid-America and Carnegie Hall as soloist
in Mozart's "Coronation Mass" and "Missa Brevis in D minor"
and Vivaldi's "Gloria".
Mezza-soprano OLA
RAFALO 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..She
also performed
Mahler's Symphony
#2 with
the Eugene Symphony.
Last season she covered
Hrtenso in the Listeners by Mazzoli
at Lyric Opera of Chicago. She
sang the National Anthem at a White Sox baseball game.
At Lyric Opera of Chicago she is
covered the Mother in Madama Butterfly. On
Jan 23 and 25 she made her debut with Winter Opera St. Louis
as Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera.
Bass-baritone ELIAM RAMOS
returned to perform as soloist in Handel's Judas
Maccabeus with Bach in Baltimore. On
Sunday April 26 he at 4pm performed as soloist in the Verdi
Requiem at the Puerto Rico Conservatory.
He is an alumnae. The conductorwass Roselin Pavon. On April
30 he performed a concert of Highlights from Elixir of
Love for the 60th anniversary of the Bar Harbor Music
Festival. The concert and dinner will be at the
Kosciusko Foundation in NYC. On Saturday May 2 he performed
a concert with Teatro Grattacielo at 1pm under the Brooklyn Bridge.
He performs Stephano in Joseph Summer's The Tempest
with Teatro Grattacielo at the Ellen Stewart Theatre in NYC on July
16 and 18. He also sings High priest in Samson and Dalilia
in his debut at Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis.
The performances are August 14,15,21,22.
Mezzo - soprano
ISABEL RANDALLsang Amelia Piper in Jodi Goble's
Whaling Women at
Boston Conservatory. She also performed
a recital in Red Hill Virginia. .Last Summer she was
a young artist with Opera
Theatre of St. Louis. She
covered Zoe Walker in This House by
Ricky Ian Gordon. Isabel also performed "Our Songs"
a concert with Opera Theatre of St. Louis
On Oct 13 she begins her residency at Dayton Opera. She
will do a Childrens Concerts, other performances, as well as Mercedes
in Bizet's Carmen on the main stage.. On Dec
16 she returned to the Dayton Philharmonic
to perform as soloist in Handel's Messiah. On
Feb 14 and 15 she performed a solo concert for Black History Month
with the Rochester Oratorio Society.
On Sunday May 10 she returns to
the Oratorio Society of Virginia
to perform as alto soloist in Mendelssohn's Elijah.
She will be a part of the Cincinnati Fellowship
of Song May 17-22.
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.
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. Fred sang a Holiday program with
New York Concert Opera in Staten Island.He
also received a "Trendsetters to Watch Award" in Las
Vegas. On Saturday April 11 he performed in the opening ceremonies of
the Rochester Institute Performing
Arts Center. He performeds a Porgy and Bess program with
State Opera of NJ on April 29. He has also been
elected to the Board of Directors of the same. He sings with State
Opera of NJ on June 28 at 6pm.. The show is "It Ain't Necessarily
So."
Maestro
BYUNG 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.. For
info on
Camerata
New Jersey
please go to
http://www.cameratanewjersey.org/
Counter-tenor, tenor ZABRIEL RIVERS
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. 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
as soloist in Bond's Ballad
of the Brown King. He also returned to the
Rochester Choral Society for a recording of Harvey
Brough's Freedom Song. On
June 6 he premiered his one man show "A Gullah Evening with Zabriel"
with the Rochester Choral Society
in Rochester NY. He returned to Carnegie Hall with
Mid-America to perform Bernstein's Chichester
Psalms on May 9.
Bass VALERIAN
RUMINSKI 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. He made his debut with
Bielefeld Theatre as Bartolo in Mozart's
Le nozze di figaro. He was a voice on "Little Emma" an
animated film in LA. He also returned to Opera de Montreal
as Benoit/Alcindoro in La Boheme.
Valerian made his debut as Commandatore in Mozart's
Don Giovanni with the Blackwater
Valley Opera Festival in Ireland on May 26-June 1.
We welcome tenor NISSIM SAAL to our
roster. For his cantorial work please refer to his
website. On He recently performed a program at a nursing
home in Long Isloand.
ROCKY
E. SELLERS sang with the Rochester
Choral Society in Glenn McClure's
"Promised Land"and repeaated it at
Geneseo College. Last season he was in
Tosca and Moby Dick at the
Metropolitan Opera. Rocky made
his debut at Carnegie Hall sining
the Mozart Requiem and Vesperae
solemnes de confessore on
June 1 with Mid-America Productions. This Fall
was Porgy and Bess at Houston Grand Opera
as well as the Metropolitan Opera. On
Sat. April 11 he performs Coplan's Old American Folksongs Part 1 with
the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra at St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn Heights.
On April 16 he performed at concert in the Schaumburg Library
in Harlem in a tribute to the founder He
is currently rehearsing Fanciulla
at the MET Opera. He made his debut
with the Berkshire Choral International singing
Mozart's Coronation Mass, Martines
Paslm 110 and Nunes-Garcia Requiem
in D minor at the Newman Center in Denver Colorado. On Oct. 16 and
18 he performs Osmin in Mozart's Enfuhrung aus dem Seraglio at Opera
Idaho.
Soprano MICHELE
SEXTON was a judge
for the Ms. New Jersey
Pageant in Atlantic City.S performed
a program for the Business
Council for International Understanding
in NYC. Michele sings the US Premier of Paul Aiken's
Missa Pro Terra "A mass for Earth"
at Carnegie Hall with Mid America. She sang
Beethoven's 9th Symphony with
the New Britain Symphony
Society. On October 12 he performed an Italian Concert at
the Italian Festival in Kingston NY
sponsored by the Ulster County Italian American Foundation.
She also performed a concert for Boheme Opera.
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.
He joined other alumnae ith The Portland Maine
Symphony Orchestra for performances
of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
Soperano EMILY SYLVESTER spend the Summer at the Berlin Opera Acadeny
and performs the lead role in Puccini's Suor Angelica
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 . Last Summer
the Festival presented "St.
Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass" and
Misa Criolla. This Summer is by "New Land,
New Covenant" by Howrd Hanson July 26 at Hochstein Performance Hall in
Rochester. He presents a Three Day Festival with the
ROS - America at 250 on June 24,25,28. For information
please go to their website.
We welcome bass GENNADIY VSOTSKiY to our roster He
returns to Delaware Valley Opera as Sarastro in The Magic Flute
on Aug. 15,16,22,23.
Soprano MELISSA WIMBISH is constantly touring with her
Outcalls (Band).
She returned to the Rochester Choral
Society for a recording of Harvery brough's
Freedom Song. She also performed in a Gala
for On Site Opera
in NYC at the Edison Ballroom. Melissa ssang
a New Year's Gala with
Bach in Baltimore and returned to
sing the St. John Passion..
Conductor DAVID WROE is Music Director of the New
Jersey
Festival Orchestra.
Please
go to the web
site for concert information.
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