Curriculum Vitae

Solo

• Lauridsen Be Still, My Soul, Be Still (the CD premiere) & O Magnum Mysterium - Sure On This Shining Night - Voce & Voce Chamber Artists with Morten Lauridsen (Voce, Inc. Records)

• Messiah - New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Voce; United Chorale, Bridgeport; GM Chorale, Middletown

• Vaughan Williams Serenade To Music - Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; Pro Arte Singers

• Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem - Three Choirs Festival with Hartford Symphony Orchestra; Mystic River Chorale and Orchestra

• Purcell Te Deum and Jubilate in D - Ensemble for Early Music at Oklahoma City University

• Vaughan Williams Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge and Biebl Ave Maria- Voce

• Brahms Requiem and Saint-Saens Christmas Oratorio - Cappella Cantorum

• Elijah - Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; Stonington Choral Society; GM Chorale

• Five Mystical Songs - Willimantic Philharmonic Orchestra and Concert Choir of Northeastern Connecticut; St. Theresa Choir, Trumbull

• Howells By the Waters of Babylon - with the Ripka/Fleming Trio on the Somers Congregational Concert Series

• Haydn Mass in Time of War - Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus

• Haydn Lord Nelson Mass - Concert Choir of Northeastern Connecticut; GM Chorale

• Weill Walt Whitman Songs - Wesleyan University Orchestra

• Duruflé Missa cum jubilo - with Christ Church Cathedral Choir at Ely Cathedral, England

• Stanford Nunc dimitis in G - with Calvary Choir at St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Litchfield Cathedral, England

• Duruflé Requiem - All Saints' Episcopal Church, Phoenix; Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford; United Chorale, Bridgeport

• Bach Christmas Oratorio - United Church on the Green, New Haven

• Carissimi Jephte - Pro Arte Singers

• Fauré Requiem - St. Paul’s Cathedral, Oklahoma City; Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford; United Church on the Green, New Haven; Haiti Benefit Concert, Immanuel Church, Hartford; Christ & Holy Trinity Church, Middletown

• Solo recitals on the music series at Immanuel Church, Hartford and Christ Church, Rye, New York

• Bach Cantata No. 106 - American Classical Orchestra

• Finzi In Terra Pax; Schubert Mass in G; Bach Cantata No. 80; Beethoven Fantasy for Piano, Orchestra, Soloists and Choir; Dvorak Mass in D; Brahms Requiem - GM Chorale

Stage Roles

• Rytas - The Freely Given (Victor Herbert) - Lamb's Theatre (Times Square)

• Jacob - Fair Liberty's Call - Theatre 315, New York City

• Tony - West Side Story - Guest Artist, Center for the Performing Arts Theatre at Sacred Heart

• Macheath - Threepenny Opera - Equity Guest Artist, SCSU Crescent Players

• Carrière and Ledoux - Phantom - Downtown Cabaret Theatre

• Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha - Amarante's Dinner Theatre, New Haven

• Emile deBecque - South Pacific - Amarante's Dinner Theatre, New Haven

  • Member of Actors' Equity Association

Training

• Master of Music in Voice, with distinction - The Hartt School, University of Hartford (full scholarship/graduate assistantship winner; first prizes for operatic performance and La Voix Poetique art song competition); Additional post-graduate studies in voice and opera

• Master Classes (featured singer) with Bidu Sayao, Marlena Malas

• Bachelor of Music Education, cum laude - Abilene Christian University (prizes for composition and operatic performance)

• Conductors: soloist with William Boughton, Angel Gil-Ordonez, Eve Queler, Yves Abel, Anton Coppola, James Sinclair, Thomas Crawford, Moshe Paranov, Kurt Klippstatter, Neal Gittleman, Simon Holt, Gerald Mack, Arthur Sjogren, Mark Singleton

• Stage Directors: principal roles for Bodo Igez, Nico Castel, Patrick Bakman, Alan Mann, Lynn Britt, Jonathan Wilson, Ron Luchsinger, Charles Kondek, Adelaide Bishop, Brenda Lewis, Jack Zei, Sheila Hickey Garvey

• Acting with: Alan Mann, Lynn Britt

Skills

• National Association of Teachers of Singing member, private studio; voice faculty at Calvary Music School (Stonington) 2009-2018; independent adjunct voice faculty at Yale Institute of Sacred Music 2015-2016; voice faculty at Community Music School (Centerbrook) 2006-2008; voice faculty at Abilene Christian University 1979-1980.

• Choral/ensemble vocal coach and consultant with choral conducting experience; Treble Coach for Calvary Royal School of Church Music ensemble 2014-2018; Principal Vocal Coach for GM Chorale, 2004-2011; Director of Senior Choir Men’s Ensemble, Hopkins School (New Haven) 1995-96

• Interim Director of Music, Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, CT, 2012-13

• Extensive professional ensemble experience on tour and in recording studio; featured soloist on two European tours with Pro Arte Singers; multiple Anglican cathedral residencies in England and Scotland with Christ Church Cathedral Choir (Hartford) and Calvary RSCM choir (Stonington).

• Former member of the professional ensembles Voce, Yale Choral Artists, and Pro Arte Singers

• References available upon request