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Soprano ViIANCA ALEJANDRA performed
in an all women composer's concert at St. Paul's Chapel
in NYC. On October 28th she was a First Place
Winner in the Puerto Rico
Distract Metropolitan Opera Competition. Ms. Alajandra
recently was in Shanghai and NYC performing Aaron Zigman's
Emigree with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. and the New
York Philharmonic. On March 17 she makes her debut
at Carnegie Hall swith Mid America Productions singing Martini's
Domine ad Adjuvandum me Festina
Conductor
RAFFI ARMENIAN resides
in Montreal Canada. He
has recently finished his booki
"Guideline for the Interpretation
of beethoven Symphonies".
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. He also performed a concert
for Cinncinati Opera..
Maestro RICHARD
BARRETT led a production of Puccini's Tosca
with Soo Opera..
Soprano KAREN HUGHES BEACOM
performed the title role Tosca
with her opera company, Soo Opera,
at the Soo Theater and Mission Point.
She returned to Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra for performances
of Messiah and Finzi on
Dec. 7 and 8.
Conductor/Pianist RICHARD CARSEY was recently
conducting Phantom
of the Opera and
Carousel
on Broadway.
We welcome baritone JUNHAN CHOI to our roster.This Boston based
artist just did a performances of John in Naomi with Boston Opera
Collaborative om Jan 25,26. On March 1-10 he performs Fiorth Stone
in Eurydice with Boston Lyric Opera. Following this is
a gala concert with Cambridge Chamber Ensemble.
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. 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.
Soprano
SARAH JOYCE COOPER performed
Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with
BLO. On Oct 28 and 30 she performed concerts
to commemorate the 70th aniversary of Coretta Scott King's
recital at New England Conservatory
in Boston. She sang sing some spirituals, other works, and
Cuban composer Amadeo Roldan's Motivos
de SonShe performed Mass in Blue
by Will Todd and Credo by Margaret Bonds
with the Harvard Radcliff Chorus
at the Sanders Theatre at Harvard University. On
December 19 she returned to Carnegie Hall as soloist
in Rutter Magnificat and When Your Believe by Stephen Schwartz
with Mid-America Productions. On
MLK day she performs "The Ties that Bind" with the On Jan 21 Ms.
Cooper performs Clotilde in Bellini's Norma with
the Boston Youth Symphony at the Sanders Theatre in Boston.
On Jan 22 she does a PRIMA event with BLO
and composer Matthew Aucoin. In February she covers Jeannette
in Bologne's Anonymous Lover with BLO. On Feb.
25 she will sing a benefit concert for the Milton Mass
Food Pantry. On April 4-7 she performs as Micaela in Carmen
(Peter Brook) with Boston Opera Collaborative.
Mezzo-soperano ALYCE DAUBENSPECK
is on the voice faculty at LaSales U. in PA..
She performwd Alise in Lucia di Lammermoor with the NJ
Festival Orchestra on Feb 17. On March 17 she makes her debut
at Carnegie Hall swith Mid America Productions singing
Martini's Domine ad Adjuvandum me Festina. She
will sing Haydn's Lord Nellson Mass with
the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra on April
27. In May she sings Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance with Raylynmor
Opera in New Hampshire.
Conductor HERB DIMMOCK is Music Direcotr 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.
He made his debut with New York City Opera
as Colline in Puccini's La Boheme.in
Bryant Park in NYC. Hhe made his debut with Maryland Opera
with excerpts from Faust as Mephistopheles. He returnred
to Bach in Balktimore for Bach's
Mass in B minor on Feb. 4.
We welcome tenor ETHAN ELLIS to our roster. On March
17 he makes his debut at Carnegie Hall swith Mid America Productions
singing Martini's Domine ad Adjuvandum me Festina and Mendelssohn's
Psalm 42.
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 has redirected her career to being
a director
and singer. She returned to
Utah Festival Opera directing Wagner's
Lohengrin this past Summer.g
HARWOOD
MANAGEMENT produced
a new roster video
"Heart of Opera".
It is on youtube at
.https://youtu.be/mCffG-j31YI.
Jim did workshops and clinics at Pace University
Hewass a panelist on the CS Music Auditions in NYC on Feb. 18 and
19. He will be a guest panelist for Berklee School of Music and
Pace University in the Spring.
We welcome tenor JESUS DANIEL HENANDEZ
to our roster.
MADDIE HERTEL is a singer,
dancer, and choreographer. She is covering in Sonbird
ay Wahington National Opera from March 9-24.
We welcome Bass JOHN PAUL HUCKLE to our roster.
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 returns to the South
Orange Symphony in NJ on Sunday April 28 as a soloist playing Rachmaninov
2d Piano Concerto..
Tenor
KYLE ERDOS-KNAPP covered
Tobias and Anthony in Sweeney Todd
with Opera Omaha
Soprano JENNY LINDSEY
made her debut as soprano soloist in the
Pergolesi Stabat Mater at
Carnegie Hall in NY with Mid-America
Productions.
We
welcome Maestro ERIC MAHL to our roster. He is currently
Music Director of
Geneva Light Opera,
Music Director of
Orchestra One, Associate Conductor
of Greenwich Village Orchestra, Conductor
of the Philharmonic Orchestra at Third
Street Music School in NYC, and Music Director
of Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra.
On Sat Oct. 20 he led members of the Ridgefield
Symphony Orchestra in a concert with Judy Collins
at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Connecticut. On Dec. 17 he led
Cherished Holiday Classics with the
Wallingford Ct. Symphony Orchestra
He has arranged several paino works of Nathaniel Dett for orchestra and they
were played on January 26th with the Northyport Symphony Orchestra.
On April 27 he is guest conductor with the
Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra .The repertiore for this
concert is Sibelius Finlandia Overture, Strauss 4 Last Songs, and Shostakovich
Symphony #5.
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.
Tenor MORGAN MASTRANGELO performed
as Gastone in Verdi's La Traviata
with City Lyric Opera in
NYC. He performed as tenor soloist in
Orff's Carmina Burana
with Mid-America at Carnegie Hall on May
13and returned to Carnrgir Hall as
soloist in Forrest's Requiem for
the Living on June 25.
On May 25 and 26 he made his debut at
Wichita Grand Opera as Count Almaviva
in Thje Barber of Seville. He isa currently at
NEC to get a masters degree. Morgan covered Ramiro
in Rossini's La Cenerentola with
Boston Lyric Opera in November In February he covered
Hades in Eurydice at BLO.
We welcome pianist conductor STEFANO MICELI to our roster.
Baritone
BRIAN MONTGOMERY
sang Don Alfonso in Mozart's
Cosi fan tutte in "Opera Reads"
at Opera America. He made his
debut with Salt Marsh Opera
in the lead role in Gianni Schicchi and
Judge in Trial by Jury. Brian
was in Clearwater Fl. for a performance of Verdi's
McBeth with Opera for Earth.
He performed Michele in Il Tabarro
with Regina Opera in Brooklyn. On May 15 through
August 7 he performed Telramund in Wagner's Lohengrin
as well as Dr. Gibbs in Our Town
at Utah Festival
Opera. He returned to Regina Opera in
Brooklyn for performances of Rigoletto inNov 11
and 17.
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 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. On March 23-25 she performed new composer
works at the U. of Arizona followed by the title role
in Peter Brook's Carmen on April
14 and 16 and a doctoral recital.
Soprano DANA PUNDT
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 recently performed a
concert for Cinncinati Opera and returned to sing
Regnava nel silencio for another
event.
We welcome mezzo-soprano OLA RAFALO to
our roster. She 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..On May 23 she performs Mahler's Symphony #2 with
the Eugene Symphony.
Bass-baritone ELIAM RAMOS
returned to Bach in Baltimore singing Handel's Messiah and Bach's
Christmas Oratorio. He also returned to Regina Opera as Alfio in Cavalleria
Rusticana with Regina Opera in Brooklyn
from Feb. 27 - March10. On March 3 he returned to Bach in Baltimore
for Bach's Cantata 33. March 17 is Carnegie Hall as soloist
in Martini's Domine and Adjuvandum me Festina and Mendelssohn Psalm
42 with Mid-America Productions.. On April 3-14 he performs
the role of Doctor in Daniel Schlosberg's The Extinctionist
with Heartbeat Opera at the Baruch Center in NYC.
He will sing Haydn's Lord Nellson Mass with
the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
on April 27. On May 23 and 29 he performs
new works with American Opera Projects in conjuntion with Tisch Opera
Lab.
Director ANNA REBEK is a graduate of
Yale and Columbia
Universities. Recently she directed
Tosca at Soo Opera in Michigan.
She directed selections by Arvo Part and Cecilia McDowell
called Dreamscape at Co-Cathederal of St.
Joseph in Brooklyn on Serpt. 29 and 30. On Nov. 18she directs
Paul Frutch's A More Perfect Union with
Greenwich Village Orchestra in NYC
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 also did workshops
and clinics at RIT in
Rochester. . 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. On April 27 he will
be soloist in The Year of the Jubilee by Harvey Brough with the
Rochester Choral Society. On May 11 he will sing Bennett's
arrangement of Porgy and Bess with the Orchestra of the Southern
Finger Lakes. He return to Carnegie Hall for a concert with Mid-America
Productions. He will be bass soloist in Bond's Ballad of the Brown
King.
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/
Counter-tenor, tenor ZABRIEL RIVERS he
made his debut as counter-tenor soloist in the
Pergolesi Stabat Mater at
Carnegie Hall in NYC
with Mid-America Productions. Zabriel
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. On April
27 he will be soloist in The Year of the Jubilee by Harvey Brough
with the Rochester Choral Society.
Bass VALARIAN RUMINSKI tto our roster. He is
Artistic Director of Nickel City Opera
in Buffalo. He performed Colline in Puccini's
La Boheme with Teatro
Lirico in Brookings South Dakota. On
Dec. 3 he performed a concert with the Amherst Symphony in
Buffalo NY. On Dec.3 he sang as bass soloist in Handel's
Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus.
He also performed Raimondo in Lucia de Lammermoor with
New Jersey Festival Orchestra on Feb. 15 at Tiro a Segno
in NY and Feb. 17 in Springfield NJ. On April 13 he returns to
Carnegie Hall for a performance of Mozart's Coronation
Mass with Mid America Productions. On April 26 and 28 he is soloist
in Hayden Mass with the Putnam Chorale in Brewster and
Beacon NY.
ROCKY E. SELLERS performied
in many operas this season with the
Metropolitan Opera. On
New Year's Eve he made his Metropolitan
Opera Debut as Nicola in Giordano's Fedora..
Last season he was in a live stream workshop if
Lisa DeSplain's new opera The
Hell-Bound Train at Opera America.
Rocky also joined American
Opera Projects for a reading of a new
work Precipice at Hunter College
This season he will
be 2nd Arored Man in The Magic Flute
ad well as Commissioner in Madama Butterfly
and cover for Duke of Verona in Romeo and Juliette
at The Metropolitan Opera. On Dec.
12 he made his debut with New York City Opera as bass soloist
in a Christmas Concert at Bryant Park in NYC.
Soprano MICHELE
SEXTON
she read and recorded Was One in my
Hand from Gerard Chiusano's new opera
The Dream with the Rutgers
Symphonty Orchestra in NJ. On June 3 she made
her Carnegie Hall
debut singing as soprano soloist in the Faure Requiem
with Mid-America Productions. She was
also a judge for the Ms. New Jersey
Pageant in Atlantic City.
We
welcome Maestro TOSHIYUKI SHIMADA to our roster.
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.
Bass SAM SMITH is doing a recital for
the Wmen's Club at Mt. Albans Presbyterian
Church in Cincinnati on Nov. 7.
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 performed Beethoven's
Choral Fantasy,
Mozart's Symphony #32 and a portion
of Handel's Solomon at Hale Auditorium
at Robert Wesleyan College in NY.
Soprano MELISSA WIMBISH is constantly touring with her Outcalls
(Band). She performed S' Amusant with the
Spire Series in Baltimore. Following this was Handel's Messaih
at Baltimore Basilica of the Assumption. She returned
to Bach in Balktimore for
Bach's Mass in B minor on Feb 4. On Feb. 25 at 3pm
she will perform Weill's Seven Deadly Sins with PostClassical
Ensemble at the National Gallery in Washington
DC. On February 11 she performs Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renee
Watson with the Charina Chamber Players at St. Marks in DC. On
April 19 and 21 Melissa makes her debit with Opera Ithaca
as Miss Jessel in Britten's Turn of the Screw..On April 27 she
will be soloist in The Year of the Jubilee by Harvey Brough with
the Rochester Choral Society.
Conductor DAVID WROE is Music Director of the New Jersey
Festival Orchestra.
Please
go to the web site for
concert information.
Tenor ZIWEN XIANG was in a movie of La Boheme
is now in theaters thoughout Japan. On October 27
he made his debut with the Rochester Oratorio
Society as tenor soloist in Hailstork's "I Will Lift Up
Mine Eyes" .In November he performed a recital at Opera America.
On Feb. 25 he does a reading of Randall Eng's new opera Norfolk
at NYU. He will sing Haydn's Lord Nellson Mass
with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra
on April 27. Ziwen has been welcomed into the
inner circle of NYC dignitaries including the likes of Mayor Eric Adams
who he has sung for on several occasions.
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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