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Soprano ViIANCA ALEJANDRA
was a First Place
Winner in the
Puerto Rico Distract Metropolitan Opera
Competition. In July she sang Norina in
Don Pasquale at Festival of the
Agean in Greece. On
June 7 she returned to Carnegie Hall
for performances of Mozart's Regina coeli
K.276 and the Bach Magnifical with Mid-America
at Carnegie Hall. She
will also perform in Stockholm Sweden and Berlin and then be
Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the International
Festival of the Aegean in Greece on Ju;ly 19-21.
Conductor
RAFFI ARMENIAN
resides in Montreal
Canada. He has recently
finished his booki "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 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.
She 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. This coming Summer she will perform the Countess
and produce Marriage of Figaro with her
Soo Opera Co.
Conductor/Pianist RICHARD CARSEY was recently
conducting Phantom
of the Opera
and Carousel
on Broadway.
Baritone JUNHAN CHOI performed Fiorth Stone
in Eurydice with Boston Lyric Opera.
Following this was a gala concert with Cambridge
Chamber Ensemble. On Jan. 26 he performed
Frate in Verdi's Don Carlo with
the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. On March 3,
7 and 8 he sang 3 songs in Ryussian which are a part of
Shostakovich's Michelangelo Cycle
with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra at the Sanders
Theatre in Boston. On July 15 and 16 he will perform Belcoe
in L'Elise d'amore with the Bar Harbor
Music Festival in Maine.
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 Connecticut on May 17.
Soprano
SARAH JOYCE COOPER performed
Ann Hutchinson in James Kallembach's American Jezebel
at the Sanders Theatre in conjunction with
Harvard University in Boston. This was a world
premiere which was live streamed. She alsoperformed a Italian
Opera Concert with the Eastern Connecticut
Symphony Orchestra to celebrate Toshi Shimada's 15th season
with the orchestra. Sarah returned to Carnegie Hall sining
the Mozart Requiem and Vesperae
solemnes de confessore on May 24 with Mid-America
Productions. On July 15 and 16 she returned to the Bar
Harbor Music Festival as Adina
in L'Elise d'amore..
She is soloist in Mahler's
Symphony No. 4 with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
on October 4. On October 17 she returns to the
Rochester Oratorio Society for a performance of
Will Todd's Mass in Blue. and a recital for the Opera Guild.
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. From Sept 15 to Oct. 19 she is in The Shinning
at Utah Opera.
Mezzo-soperano ALYCE DAUBENSPECK
made her debut at Carnegie
Hall with Mid America
Productions singing Martini's
Domine ad Adjuvandum
me Festina. She also sang Haydn's Lord
Nellson Mass with
the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.
Alyce sang Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance
with Raylynmor
Opera in
New Hampshire.Ms Daubenspeck moved to Germany to pursue her career..
Alyce is currently working at Theater Ulm in Germany.Her
contract at Theater Ulm has been renewed
until Jan. 2026.
We welcome mezzo-soprano CAMERYL DEWAR
to our roster.
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.
He performed music of Anthony Davis
at the Virginia Arts Festival
in Norfolk VA and repeated the concert at the Marcella
Sembrich Opera Museum in Bolton Landing NY. He also
covered the baritone role in Stravinsky's Renard
with the Baltimore Symohony Orchestra.
On April 6 Carl returms to
Carnegie Hall and Mid-America
productions for performances of the Vivaldi Magnificant
and the Monteverdi Magnificat.
Tenor ETHAN ELLIS
performed Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor
with Regina Opera..
He also performed Gaston in La Traviata
at the
Newhouse Center on Staten Island NY..
He performed in concerts and operas
at Festival of the Agean in Greece. He sang Spoletta
in Tosca with Regina Opera
and returned as Beppe in
I Pagliacci.He performed as tenor soloist in Beethoven's
9th Symohony with the New Britian Symphony.
On April 6 he 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.
We welcome Argentinian soprano MARIS JOSE
FABARA to our roster. She performed Norina in Donizetti's Don
Pasquale with Ft. Collins Opera March
7 and 8. On July 24-26 she performs Micaela in Bizet's Carmen
with the Equadorian Symphony in Quita Equador. She performed
Opera in the Park "Be;;a Voce" with Boulder
Opera on August 2 and 3. On Nov. 11, 15, 16 she returns 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
this past Summert. 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.
On Jam 22 and 23 he will be a panelist
for CS Music in NYC.
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. On June 28 he performed in a world premier opera "To
the People Like Us" with White Snake Opera
in Boston. On September 25 he performs at an event for Mexican designer
Celestino Couture at Walkway on the Hudson in Poukeepsie
NY. On October 12 he performs an Italian Concert at the Italian
Festival in Kingston NY sponsored by the Ulster County Italian
American Foundation.
We welcome contralo JENNIFER HINES to our roster.
Bass JOHN PAUL HUCKLE
recently performed in Masque of the Red Death with
the Cleveland Ballet and Pops orchestra.He performed Ashby
in Fanciulla del West with Washington Opera Society on Jan 24/
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 on Nov. 1. On Nov. 14 he performed
a program for the Business Council for International Understanding
in NYC.
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, Geneva Light
Opera, Orchestra
One, Philharmonic Orchestra at Third
Street Music School in NYC, and the
Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra.
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.
On August 4-8 he brings
his ,usical and teaching talents to the Charles Ives Music Festival
in Connecticut. On Sept. 27 he leads the opening
concert with the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra.ewwssi
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 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
in Nov 11 and 17. He lives in NYC and Asia. Brian will sing
at Opera in the Ozarks as a part of the 75th
Gala Event on May 31st. Brian returns to
Carnegie Hall and sang the
Mozart Requiem and Vesperae
solemnes de confessore on June 7 with Mid-America Productions.
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 just 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.
On March 23-25 she performed new composer
works at the U. of Arizona followed by the
title role in Peter Brook's Carmen.
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 performs Marcelena in Mozart's
Le Nozze di Figaro with Soo Opea in Michigan.
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 covering the Mother in Madama Butterfly.
Bass-baritone ELIAM
RAMOS eturned to Regina Opera as Silvio
in I Paliacci. He also performed
Bach's Cantata ich habe genug ud air with
Bach in Baltimore. Eliam sang the
US Premier of Paul Aiken's Missa Pro Terra "A
mass for Earth" at Carnegie Hall with Mid America.
On March 23 he sang Beethoven's 9th Symphony with
the New Britain Symphony Society. On May 16,17,20
he performd new operas with The Advanced AOP-NYU
Tish Opera Lab. On May 22 he performs Dumas in David Winkler's
Rossini's Perduto with Long
Island Concert Orchestra and Seas Cliff Chamber Players at The Theater
at St. Jean in NYC. On July 15 and 16 he will perform Belcoe in
L'Elise d'amore with
the Bar Harbor Music Festival in Maine.
On August 6,8,10 he performs
Figaro in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro with Soo Opea in Michigan.
On Sept. 17 he performs an Art Song Concert for Opera in Williamsburg
at the Williamsburg Regional Library.
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 Childrens Concerts, other
performances, as well as Mercedes in Bizet's Carmen on the main stage..
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.
He was soloist in The Year of the Jubilee
by Harvey Brough with the Rochester Choral Society.
He also sang Bennett's arrangement of
Porgy and Bess with the Orchestra of the Southern
Finger Lakes. He returned to Carnegie
Hall for a concert with Mid-America
Productions and was
bass soloist in Bond's Ballad of the Brown King.He returned
to the Rochester Oratorio Society for
the recording of The Year of the Jubilee.
He also returned to the Rochester Choral Society
to record Harvey Bropugh's
Freedom Song. Fred sang a Holiday program with
New York Concert Opera in Staten Island.
On March 6 he receives a "Trendsetters to Watch Award" in Las
Vegas. On April 1 he sings for Barnes International
and JP Morgan in NYC. May 21 was another fconcert in Staten
Is.
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 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 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
bass 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 premieres his one man show "A Gullah Evening with
Zabriel" with the Rochester Choral Society
in Rochester NY.
Bass VALARIAN RUMINSKI tto our roster.
He is Artistic Director
of Nickel City Opera
in Buffalo. He 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 from Sept. 20 to Dec. 20. On Jan 17 and 18 he sings
Mozart's Requiem with the Buffalo Philharmonic.
He was a voice on "Little Emma" an animated film in LA. On May
15-20 he returns to Opera de Montreal as Benoit/Alcindoro in La
Boheme.
ROCKY E. SELLERS sang with
the Rochester Choral Society in Glenn McClure's
"Promised Land"and repeaated it at
Geneseo College. This season hewas in
Tosca and Moby Dick at the Metropolitan
Opera. Rocky makes his debut at Carnegie Hall
sining the Mozart Requiem and Vesperae
solemnes de confessore on June 1 with Mid-America Productions.
This Fall is Porgy and Bess at Houston Grand Opera as well as the Metropolitan
Opera.j
Soprano MICHELE
SEXTON
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.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 on Mrch 15.On March 23 she
sangBeethoven's 9th Symphony with the
New Britain Symphony Society.
On October 12 he performs an Italian Concert at the Italian Festival in Kingston
NY sponsored by the Ulster County Italian American Foundation.
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.
On September 22 and 24 he joined other alumnaue with The
Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra for
performances of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
Bass SAM SMITH sang a recital
for the Wmen's
Club at Mt. Albans Presbyterian Church
in Cincinnati. He sang Dr. Grenvil in
La Traviata at Cincinnati
Opera.
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 Sunday July 28 the
Festival will present "St. Francis in the Americas:
A Caribbean Mass" and Misa Criolla. The performance
was at the Hochstein Performance Hall in Rochester at 8pm. This
is a benefit concert..
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. On
Jan 1 Melissa sangs a New Year's Gala with
Bach in Baltimore and returns to sing the
St. John Passion on April 6.
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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