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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
on August 9..
Conductor/Pianist RICHARD CARSEY was recently
conducting Phantom
of the Opera
and Carousel
on
Broadway.
Baritone JUNHAN CHOI made his debut as
Schaunard in Puccini's La Boheme with the
Cambridge Symphony Orchestra in Boston at the
Grege Auditorium. He performed in Boston Lyric Opera's
Gala "Ride of the Valkyres" at Sowo
Power Station in Boston. Hewas 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.
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
Connecticu.
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 isd 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
begins the Fall season with Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme on Oct.
24,26 at University of Cuenza in Equador.
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. On September
25 he performeduu at an event for Mexican designer
Celestino Couture at
Walkway on the Hudson in Poukeepsie NY. On October
12 he performed an Italian Concert at the
Italian Festival in Kingston NY sponsored
by the Ulster County Italian American
Foundation. On Nov. 16 he performs Tony in Terrence
McNally's Masterclass as well as other music
at SER restaurant in Arlington VA. On November 30
he returns to perform in a Music Salon Series in
Falls Church VA. On December 11 he sang a
program at the Zanesville Museum of Art in Ohio.
He also repeated 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 performs at Casa Iris in a performance of I'm Still
Here. On Oct. 17 and 18 he returns 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. On
May 29 and 30 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 on 7/31 and 82 along with performances as Nrmano in Lucia
di Lammermoor. On October 11 and 13
he makes his debut at the Daegu Opera House in Korea as Ping in
Puccini's Turandot. He sings
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.
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 was 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 performs 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 speny the Summer at the Berlin
Opera Acadeny and performs the lead role in Puccini's Suor
Angelica
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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