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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 resides in Montreal
Canada. He is working on
several new recording projects.
He has recently finished
a book "Guideline for the Interpretation
of beethoven Symphonies".
Bass baritone ISAIH MUSIK AYALA performed Alidoro in Rossini's
La Cenerentola at both Tri-Cities Opera and Syracuse
Opera. He returned to Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis
for performances as Gremin in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegen. On
Dec. 11 he plays FBI Agent Tom Scarborough in an opea Fannie Lou
by Richard Thompson at JPAC in Newark.
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.
We welcome soprano KAREN HUGHES BEACOM to our roster.She
performs Handel's Messiah with the Great Lakes Chamber
Orchestra on Dec. 15 and 16.
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.
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. On May 1 he leads
a semi-staged version of Mozart's Cosi fan tutti
at Opera America in
NYC.
Soprano SARAH JOYCE COOPER
was a winner in The Classical Competition at Montpelier
Arts Center in MD. She was also a semi-finalist in the Rochester
Oratorio Competition. She performed a recital at Middlesex
Alumnae weekend..IMs. She sang as soloist in The
Ordering of Moses by Nathaniel Dett on Oct. 13 with the Rochester
Oratorio Society. She made her main stage debut as Monica in Menotti's
Medium with Tri Cities Opera
and Syracuse Opera. Performances
weree Oct. 21-23 at Tri-Cities Opera and Oct.
28-30 at Syracuse.Opera. On Nov. 10-12 she performs as an artist in
"Love in the Timw of..." with Boston Opera Collaborative at the Multicultural
Center in Boston. In thie work are world premiere's of three songs.
They are Ghosted by Paul Frucht and Charles Coe,
Before the Pandemic by Lille Rebecca McDonough and Maria Luisa, and
The Value of a Bird by Akshaya Avril Tucker and
Madeline Lam. In December she joins Alabama Shakespeare Festival as
Maggie Porter in Jubilee by Tazwell Thompson for previews on Dec.
28 and performances from Jan. 6 through the 29th.
We welcome mezzo-soperano ALYCE DAUBENSPECK
to our roster. She performed in a Gala concert
with Raylynmour Opera in New Hampshire on August
14. She sings the Mozart Requiem with Interrupted Sound
Ensemble in Allentown PA on Nov. 6.
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.
He was a part of the Peabody Summer Vocal Academy. He
also taught and performed at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.
In August he participated nin Washington National
Opera's Opera Initiative. On September 25 Carl made his
debut with the Brazos Symphony Orchestra in
Texas as bass in Beetrhoven's 9th Symphony.He makes
his debut as Stephen Kumalo in Weill's Lost in the Stars with Annapolis
Opera on Oct. 28 and 30. On Monday Oct. 31 he sings a concert at Carnegie
Hall "Songs of Hope" a group he is torung with. He also
makes his debut with The Choral Arts Society of Washington in a
series of concerts. The concerts are Dec. 19 and 24.
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.
We welcome soprano LAUREN FREY to our
roster. She will make her debut as soloist in Handel's Messiah
with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic on Satuday
Dec. 17.
Soprano SUZAN HANSON has redirected her career to being
a director. She just made her directing debut at Utah
Festival Opera directing a new production of Copland's Tenderland.
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
covered Tobias and Anthony 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.
On May 1 she will sing Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi
fan tutte in "Opera Reads" at Opera America.
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.
We welcome tenor CHRTISTOPHER
LONGO to our roster. He makes his debut as Rinuccio in Puccini's
Gianni Schicchi with Salt Marsh Opera
10/7-23.
Director JAMIBETH
MARGOLIS is busy in NYC. She directed a semi-staged production
of Cosi fan tutti
at Opera America on May 1.
Mezzo-soprano
LAURE DE MARCELLUS has 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 performed music from the CD at Salle des Abelles
in Geneva Switzerland. On Friday April 8 she performed "Pauline
Inspired" a show honoring the extraordinary artist Pauline
Viardot at Old First Concerts in San
Francisco. On May 20 she made her debut as Countess in Tchaikovsky"s
Pique Dame with West
Bay Opera. On July 1 is the release of her CD "Pauline Inspired".
Tenor MORGAN
MASTRANGELO performed as guest soloist with Forte
International Competition at Carnegie Recital
Hall.. This Summer he joined Opera Saratoga, covered
Almaviva in Il Barbieri di Siviglia, sang Tobias in
Sweeney Todd, and was tenor soloist
in Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle. On
August 4 he performed an opera and Broadway concert at the Kasschua
Memorial Shell in Ridgewood NJ. He travels to europe in
September and is a semi-finalist in the Ottavio Zinno International
Vocal Competition in Italy. He makes his
debut with Herb Dimmock's Bach in Baltimore singing
Bach Cantata 182 on Oct. 23.
We welcome tenor STEPHAN METZNER to our distinguished roster.
Soprano
VICTORIA MININGHAM is producing and
performing with Victoria's Opera House her
own company in NYC.
Baritone
BRIAN MONTGOMERY
began the Fall season with "Opera
Favorites" at the Old Dutch
Church in Kingston NY . He also performed the title
role in Verdi's MacBeth with
Opera For Earth in NYC at St. John's Church
in NYC.. He made his debut with Opera Idaho as George
Benson in Dead Man Walking
on April 14,22,24. On May he sang Don
Alfonso in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in
"Opera Reads" at Opera America. He makes his debut with
Salt Marsh Opera in the lead role in Gianni Schicchi and
Judge in Trial by Jury. 10/14-23. On October
30 he is in Clearwater Fl. for a performance of Verdi's McBeth with
Opera for Earth.
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. On
May 1 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.
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.
Bass-baritone ELIAM RAMOS performed in La Boheme at Opera
in Williamsburg in Virginia. On September 16 he performed
in a "gala" concert with tenor Ziwen Xiang in Queens NY. On Oct. 19 he made
his debut with the Metropolitan Opera Guild on Oct. 19 singing excerpts
from Verdi's La Traviata. On Oct. 20 hye performed the Bach Magnificat
with Unsung Collective in NYC. On Saturday Oct. 29 he sings in Hamilton
Park in Jersey City with Zombie Opera. He made
debut with Herb Dimmock's Bach in Baltimore singing
Bach Cantata 182 on Oct. 23. He returned to
Bach in Baltimore singing Bach's
Cantata #2. He sings in Red Bank with Creative Operations is
a Spanish program on Nov. 15. On Dec. 11 he plays The Sheriff in
Fannie Lou by Richard Thompson at JPAC in Newark.
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 made his debut with the New Jersey Symphony as Hark
in Michael Raphael's Nat Turner with
Trilogy Opera.. He performed "Old Man River"
from Showbooat on a gala concert at Eastman School of Music for the
William Warfield Foundation. Fred wass Dom
Claude Frollo in a new musical Hunchback of Notre Dame
by John Taylor Thomas at the 30th Street Theatre
in NYC. Performances were Sept. 8 through October 3. On Oct.
10-12 he judges the vocal competition for the
William Warfield Foundation. On October 26 he performs excerpts
of Verdi's Rigoletto with the Metropolitan
Opera Guild in NYC. He does workshops and clinics at RIT
in Rochester on Nov. 17 and 18.
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/
ROCKY E. SELLERS was busy
with engagements with Lyric Opera of Chicago
and The Metropolitgan Opera performing
FireShut up in my Bones at Lyric
Opera of Chiocago. He also sang Don Alfonso in Cosi
fan Tutte with Opera Memphos. In June and Julky he performed
in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with Des Moines
Opera. He is performing in many operas this season with the
Metropolitan Opera.
Soprano
MICHELE SEXTON
performed with "Opera
Favorites" at the Old
Dutch Church in Kingston NY. She also performed
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 . On July 24 they perform Beethoven's
Choral Fantasy, Mozart's Symphony #32 and
a portion of Handel's Solomon at Hale Auditorium at Robert
Wesleyan College in NY.
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 Seton
Hall University as Don Ottavio in Mozart's
Don Giovanni. . On May 1 he sangg Ferrando in Mozart's
Cosi fan tutte in "Opera Reads" at Opera America.
He also performed Halstork's I Will Lift up Mine
Eyes and Dett's Chariot Jubilee
at Carnegie Hall with Mid-America
Productiuons on June 3. On Sept. 2 he performed as Arturo in Donizetti's
Lucia di Lamermoor with New York
City Opera at Bryant Park in NYC. He performed a "gala" concert
on Sept. 16 at the Glow Foundation Community Center in Queens NY.He
also has been selected to compete in "Opera's Golden Voice" International
Vocal Competition in Georgia in September. In January he will make
his debut with Grand Rapiuds Opera as Ferrabdo in Mozart's Cosi
fan tutte.
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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