Conductor
RAFFI ARMENIAN lives in Montreal Canada. He is working on several
new recording projects. He recently returned to lead the
Regina Symphony Orchestra.
Baritone JOHN ATKINS recently performed Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder
at Santa Monica College.
Baritone DARRELL BABIDGE is a professor of voice
at Brigham Young University.
He recently did a recital of Lieder and arias at Brigham Young
University.
Soprano MEGAN BARRERA won fourth place in the Jensen Foundation Competition
in New York City.
Conductor RICHARD BARRETT is chairman
of the Opera department of Brooklyn College. He
recently led master classes
for opea singers at the Moscow
Conservatory.
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.
Tenor PETER BURROUGHS will perform St. Brioche in Lehar's
The Merry Widow with Northern Lights Music Festival
in Minnisota in July.
Conductor/Pianist RICHARD CARSEYwas Music Director of Skylight Opera in Milwaukee. He
was recently Music Director for the National Tour of La cage aux Folles. He was recently
Misic Director of the National
Tour of Phantom of the Opea.
Soprano
ERICA COCHRAN was
recently in Ragtime at the Bristol Riverside Theater in Pennsylvania.
Tehor BRETT COLBY recently finished a commercial for ABC.
Baritone LAWRENCE CRAIG recently performed a concert for US
State Dept. Global Women's Mentoring Program for Hilary Clinton
NYC.
Bass-Baritone CARL DUPONT received his doctorate
at the University of Miami.
He is Assistant Professor of Voice at
University of North Carolina
at Charlotte. On May 8 he performed two works by Jacqueline
Hairston at Carnegie Hall with Mid-America Productions.
Director JONATHON FIELD is
director of opera at Oberlin
Conservatory of Music. He directed a new production
of Weill's Street Scene at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in November.
In March
he directs a new production of Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera
at Oberlin Conservatory.
Soprano SUZAN HANSON played Mrs. Williamson in David
Lang's The Difficulty of Crossing
a Field
with Long beach Opera.
HARWOOD MANAGEMENT will produce a Broadway Showcaase
on May 26 at the Lincoln
Center Library.
Bass
ERIC JOHNSON is head of the opera department at Syracuse University. He
recently sang Brahms Liebeslieder
with the Syracuse
University Octet, Viva Verdi with the
Buffalo Opera Unlimited,
a Verdi/Wagner salute
with the Syracuse University
Symphony Orchestra, Mozart Mass in G with the Schenectady Symphony, and Molly of the Mohawks by A.C. Bates
in Salmon River
NY.
Pianist CRAIG KETTER is a busy soloist and accompanist throughout
the US.
We welcome Soprano JEE-HYUN KIM to our roster
of distinguished artists. She performed Mimi in Puccini's
La Boheme with
La Bella Opera in Seoul Korea. She performed the
title role in a world premier of Guan-hyung Lee's Opera Woonyoung
at the National Theater in Seoul Korea.
Tenor KYLE ERDOS KNAPP
returned
to perform Flute in Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream with Hawaii
Opera Theatre. Following this he was John Wilson in Laurie Laitman's
Scarlett Letter with Opera Colorado. He is now
Jason in Greg Spears Jason and the Argonauts with Chicago Lyric
Opera's Lyric Unlinmited.
Baritone DARIK KNUTSEN
performed Marcello in Puccini's La Boheme with New
Jersey Festival Orchestra.
Tenor
SIMON KYUNG LEE was the tenor for Teatro Lirico's
Us and European Tour singing La Boheme and Carmen
and other concerts.
Conductor DANIEL LIPTON is Artistic Director of
Florida Opera Festival
in Tampa Florida. He is presently leading performances of Rigoletto and Madama Butterfly. Following
this was La Boheme with
Manitoba Opera.
Tenor ANTHONY P. McGLAUN made his debut at Chicago Lyric Opera as Nelson
in Gershwin's Porgy and
Bess. He performed several recitals in NYC
in March and April. He premiered Harlem Night Songs by Ben
Quashen. Anthony is performing Mingo in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at
the Spoletto Festival in Charleston South Carolina from May 27 through
June 12.
Director JAMIBETH MARGOLIS recently directed Satin Cloak by Martin Haplern with performances
at Shetler Studios in NYC. She is also a very busy casting director
and producer.
Bass-baritone
HYALMAR MITROTTI VENTURA will perform Captain von Trapp in The Sound
of Music with Misi Productions in Colombia South America
from April 17 to May 31.
Conductor NIELS MUUS is Music Director of Festival Steyr in Austria. He is also
conductor for the Morphing Chamber Orchestra
in Vienna.
Italian soprano CRISTINA PIPERNO performed
as soloist in Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony at the Orvieto Cathedral in Italy.
Mezzo Soprano JESSICA RENFRO
made her International Debut as Paquette in Bernstein's Candide
with Maggio Musicale Foundation at Opera di Firenzi.
Director/Composer SCOTT RICHARDS's has had several
of his operas performed at the New York City Opera VOX Festival
and is currently writing a new musical for Signature Theater and a play about the
Ali Foreman Fight for the Public
Theater.
Soprano MARCY RICHARDSON
performed Music of the Guilded Age with the Nickerbocker Chamber
Orchestra in NYC.
Soprano MICHELE SEXTON
performed several concerts with Union City Opera in NJ.
She recently made several commercials and is performing concerts
in Southern New Jersey. On June 22 she performs a fundraising concert
for Boheme Opera 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.
Director MURIEL VON VILLAS is a freelancce director and teacher
in the DC area..
Japanese-American soprano KAORI WILLIAMS performed a recital
of Opera and Japanese songs at Countryside
Church in Palatine in Chicago. She sang Strauss songs with
the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra in Illinois.
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