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Maestro Giulherme Almeida
is Senior Lecturer in Music Theater
at Baylor University. He was
recently Music Director for
Shakespeare in the Love with
Shakespeare Dallas. He
was also Composer/Music Director/Music supervisor
for a new translation of Goethe's Faust
at the U. of Texas in Dallas. He is currently
working remotely at Zurich University of the Arts
in a program called Creation and Scenario in
Music. He is concept and stage director for Oscillating
Realities a new performance piece.
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 Union Avenue Opera as Count Almavia
in rossini's Il barbieri di Siviglia.
He makes his debut as Don Ramiro in Rossini's La Cenerentola with
Salt Marsh Opera on May 13 to 18.
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. 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 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. On
Nov. 17 the Rutgers University Orchestra did a
reading of his new symphony. On Jan 17 PBS channel 13
will have his composition on the air.
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. In August returned
to his alma mater IU for a live stream of What the
Horse Eats by faculty member P.Q.Phan and Anvi Hoang. He performed
Schaunard in "Boheme in the Heights" with the In Series in Baltimore
and DC. Carl ireturns to Opera Columbus for performances as Hawkins
Fuller in Fellow Travelers on Feb. 25 and 27.
Soprano ISABEL DUPRE sang a recital
at the Lincoln Center Library
followed by an audition trip in Europe.
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 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. She is currently
the stage director for a new video of La Voix Humainee
in LA at the end of Feb.
HARWOOD
MANAGEMENT produced a new roster video
"Heart of Opera". It is on youtube at
.https://youtu.be/mCffG-j31YI
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. He will perform 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.
Tenor
KYLE
ERDOS-KNAPP
is covering Tobias in Sweeney Todd with Opera Omaha in February.
Soprano JENNY LINDSEY performed
Liu in Puccini's Turandot
at the Lincoln Center
Library. She also performed in Bizet's
The Pearl Fishers
with Opera
in
Williamsburg in Virginia.
Conductor
DANIEL
LIPSCHUTZ is an artistic consultant for many orchestras and
opera companies.
Mezzo-soprano EMILY LIPSCHUTZ looks forward to
performing concerts in Florida and New York. She recently performed
on "Broadway Holiday"at Phoenicia Festival of
the Voice 24 Main Phoenicia, NY on Dec. 11.
Director JAMIBETH MARGOLIS is busy in NYC.
We welcome mezzo-soprano LAURE DE MARCELLUS to our roster. This
busy artist ihas just finished a new album "Pauline Inspired" based
on the music of Pauline Viardot. She did this with her Spanish pian
ist Alberto Urroz. and is produced by Centaur Records. On March
19 she performs music from the CD at Salle des Abelles in Geneva Switzerland.
Tenor MORGAN MASTRANGELO sang with the Pheonicia Festival of
the Voice in Pheonicia NYin Leoncavallo's Paliacci.
He also performed in The Great American Songbook at
the Old Dutch Church in Kingston N.Y. On Saturday
December 18 he made his debut as tenorsoloist in Handel's Messiah
with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic.
In
January he is singing in Pirates of Penzance and under study for Frederic
in Pirates of Penzance with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan
Society at the Kaye Playhouse in NYC. This production is ppostponed.
Conductor
STEFANO MICELI is a world renoned conductor
and Steinway pianist.
We welcome
soprano VICTORIA MININGHAM to our roster. She is producing
and performing with Victoria's Opera House her
own company in NYC.
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
was y Cirillo in Giardano's Fedora streaming with
Teatro Grattacielo of NYC. He begian the Fall season
with "Opera Favorites" at the
Old Dutch Church in Kingston NY . He also performeds
the title role in Verdi's MacBeth with Opera For
Earth in NYC at St. John's Church in NYC..
Conductor CHARLES
MORRIS is a conductor as well as a virtual
orchestrator. His orchestrations are being made available on line.
Conductor
NIELS MUUS is Music Director
of Festival Steyr in Austria.
He is also conductor
for the Morphing Chamber
Orchestra in Vienna.
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 traveled to the Czech Republic for family time and several
performances. She is performed a solo concert for
Turnov Paridise in the Czech Republic. She is a semi-finalist
in the Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition.
On a moment's notice she made her debut as mezzo soloist in Handel's
Messiah with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic on
Dec. 18.
Soprano DANA PUNDT made her debut
with Opera Project Columbus
as Rosalinda in
Die Fledermaus. She compled a six
month culinary course. She also 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 also
appeared with Pedro Barbosa in a video Heart of Opera produced
by Harwood Management.
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. Recent:: World premier - James in Manville 7
by Dwayne Fulton - Trilogy Opera - N.J. He performed
in The Great American Songbook at the Old Dutch Church
in Kingston N.Y. He returned to Trilogy Opera for a performance
as Senator Norton in Ulysees Kay's Frederick Douglas
in Newark NJ. On Dec. 3 and 5 he performed Handel's Messiah
with the Putnam Chorale in Beacon and Brewster NY. He
performed on "Broadway Holiday"at Phoenicia Festival
of the Voice 24 Main Phoenicia, NY on Dec. 11. He
returns to Trilogy Opera a performance as Wotan in Das Reingold
(Jonathan Dove version in German) on March 26.
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/
Soprano MICHELE SEXTON
peformed excerpts from Il Trovatore
and La Traviata with the Metropolitan
Opera Guild. These programs
were streamed. She began the Fall season with "Opera
Favorites" at the Old Dutch Church
in Kingston NY on Sept. 25 at noon. In December she performs
in "An American Christmas Songbook" at Bristol Riverside
Theatre in NJ.
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 Beethoven's Mass in C on
July 24. He looks forward to the Block Sacred Service
with the Rochester Choral Society on November
21.
Japanese-American soprano KAORI WILLIAMS has released
her first album My Home My Heart
on Amazon. She is currently performing
concerts in and around Tokyo.
Conductor DAVID WROE is Music Director of the New Jersey
Festival Orchestra.
Please go to the web
site for concert information.
Tenor ZIWEN XIANG recently performed Rodolfo in Puccini's
La Boheme in NYC for More Than Musical
Limited in Hong Kong. This was a film and a new
production. It is now on OperaBox.TV. He
made his debut with the Pheonicia Festival of the Voice in Pheonicia
NY as Beppe in Leoncavallo's Paliacci and sang
the National Anthem for the NY Mets. He
sang "Opera Favorites" at the
Old Dutch Church in Kingston NY.. He also made his
debut with Seton Hall University as Don Ottavio in Mozart's
Don Giovanni. His January production of Ferrando in Mozart's
Cosi fan tutti at Cedar Rapids Opera has been
postponed
We welcome Italian baritone NICOLA ZICCARDI to our roster.
We represent him in the Americas. On October
13 and 20 he performs at the Musikverein in Vienna in a Mozart
concert. On October 29-31 he performs as Marcello in La
Boheme with Teatro Magnani Fidenza in Italy.
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