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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.
She also she won Second Place in
the Nats Competition
in NYC 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 was 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. In the Summer she performed Nedda in Paliacci with
Soo Opera.
Conductor/Pianist RICHARD CARSEY was recently
conducting Phantom
of the Opera
and Carousel
on
Broadway.
Baritone JUNHAN CHOI was soloist in the Lord Nelson
Mass with Cambridge Community Chorus. He performed Pantheus
in Berlioz's Les Troyens a Carthage with the Boston Youth Symphony
at Sanders Theatre. He also 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 made his debut with Union Av. Opera in St.
Louis singing Belcore in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore.
He joins ApoHe will sing a workshop of a new opera by Tandall
Eng and Monique Thruong at the Virginia Arts Festival on Nov. 11
and at NYU in NYC on Nov. 13. He returns
to the Naples Philharmonic in Florida for a concert version of Nixon in
China as Chou-En-lai. The performances are on Jan 7 and 9 and the
cast includes Renee Flemming and zthomsd Hampson.
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.
Soprano
SARAH JOYCE COOPER sang 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 was 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
performed Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata with Opera Arcadia
in Maine on Aug. 21 and 22. She returned to Opera
Western Reserve as Nedda in Paliacci on Sept. 26. On Oct.
18 she performed a concert "Songs of America" at the Granite in Redding
Ct. Nov 13 she does the same type of program with the Norfolk Symphony
on LI. Dec 6 is her debut in Chicago singing the Messiah st the Rockefeller
Chapel at the U. of Chicago.
Soprano
KAHLI DALBOW performed Georgetta in
Il Tabarro with Boulder
Opera. 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 Canadian 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 Berkshire 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.
Last 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. She began the Fall season
with Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme on Oct. 24,26 at
University of Cuenza in Equador. In December she returns
to Equador at Teatro Carlos Cueva Tamariz for performances of Handel's
Messiah on Dec. 18 and 19. In January she
returns to Opera Fort Collins for performances as Abagail Adams in Distant
Love Letters. The performances are on Feb. 12-14.
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 in a world premier opera
"To the People Like Us" with
White Snake Opera in Boston. He performed
at an event for Mexican designer Celestino
Couture at
Walkway on the Hudson in Poukeepsie NY. He also performed an
Italian Concert at the Italian
Festival in Kingston NY sponsored by the
Ulster County Italian American Foundation.
He performed Tony in Terrence McNally's Masterclass
as well as other music at SER restaurant in Arlington
VA. He epeated Mc
Nally's Masterclass in Barcelona Spain. On
Sept. 24 he performed a concert at the White Theatre in
Whitefish Montana. On Oct.10 he performsedat Casa Iris
in a performance of I'm Still Here. On Oct. 17 and 18 he returned to the
Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra for a their
opening concert. He performs a concert at the Bombyx Center for
the Arts in Northampton Mass. o. Nov. 12. On Nov.15 he performs
a concert at the Rochester Latino Theatre Co.
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.
He performed with Artek's Madrigal Madness Series in
NYC. This Summer he sang Azor in Andre Gretry's
Zémire et Azor with Berkshire
Opera Festival along with performances as Nrmano in Lucia
di Lammermoor. On October 11 and 13 he
made his debut at the Daegu Opera House in Korea as Ping in Puccini's
Turandot. He sang on a concert
"Courtney's Stars of Tomorrow" at House of the
Redeemer with the Bronx Arts Ensemble on Oct. 29. On Dec 6
he will sing Saint-Saens Oratorio de Noel with
Cappella Cantorum in Deep River Ct. He joins
Apollo's Fire as singer in Handel's Messiah with the
New York Philharmonic Dec 2-5, and Messiah
in Cleveland and Chicago Dec. 14-20. He sings as tenor soloist in
Handel's Messiah at Queens College on Dec.12.
On Jan 20 and 21 he performs Gregor in Hilma a world premiere opera
by Daniel Zlatkin. The production is part of the Prototype Festival
and will be presented at the National Sawdust Theatre in Brooklyn NY.
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 is 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. 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 made his debut as High Priest in Samson and Dalilia
in his debut at Union Avenue Opera in St.
Louis. The performances were August 14,15,21,22.On Sept. 27 he performed
an evening of opera and musical theater for State Opera of NJ
in Princeton NJ. He returns to Regina Opera
as Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly Nov
7-22.
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 sang with State Opera of NJ
on June 28 at 6pm.. The show is "It Ain't Necessarily So."
On Oct. 22 he performed a concert with Concert Opera of NY on Staten
Island.
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. He begins the year with performances at both
the Metropolitan Opera as well as Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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. On Sept. 27 she performed an evening of opera and
musical theater for State Opera of NJ in Princeton NJ.
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 spent the Summer at the Berlin
Opera Acadeny and performs the lead role in Puccini's Suor
Angelica. On Dec. 18 she makes her debut singing Handel's Messiah
with the Rochester Oratorio Society.
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 presented 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
returned to Delaware Valley Opera as Sarastro in The Magic
Flute on Aug. 15,16,22,23. He sings Mephistopheles
in Faust with Amore Opera at St. Paul and St. Andrews
in NYC on Oct 12-16. He returns to Regina Opera
as Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly Nov 7-22.
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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