OPERA / MUSICAL THEATRE ROLES

THE MAGIC FLUTE (Tamino), LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Tito), SWEENEY TODD (Pirelli), THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES (Count Almaviva), ELEGY FOR YOUNG LOVERS (Toni), IL VIAGGIO A REIMS (Conte di Libenskof), SIMPLY GRIMM PROLOGUE (world premiere),

FALSTAFF (Fenton), DON PASQUALE (Ernesto), ALBERT HERRING (Mayor Upfold), 

DER ROSENKAVALIER (3 roles: Tierhändler/Faninal’s Major Domo/Wirt), LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Don Basilio),

I PAGLIACCI (Beppe/Arlecchino), THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (Slender), THE GONDOLIERS (Luiz), GIANNI SCHICCHI (Rinuccio), COMEDY ON THE BRIDGE (The Schoolmaster), HARVEY MILK (world premiere: Scott/Closet Lover), IL PRIMO OMICIDIO (Adam), 

IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO (Bellezza), IL COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA (Narrator), 

THE FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR (Larry/Matt), EURIDICE (Tirsi), THE MOST HAPPY FELLA (Jake), THE TOY SHOP (tour: Paul), ONEBODY (tour: Artist), COSÌ FAN TUTTE (excerpt: Ferrando)  

 

OPERA & MUSIC THEATRE COMPANIES

Houston Grand Opera, Opera Memphis, Chamber Opera Chicago, Anchorage Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Kentucky Opera,

Theatre Under the Stars, Tanglewood Music Center, Lone Star Lyric Theatre Festival, Moores Opera Center,

Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston, Onebody Theatre Company, Opera Works, Inc., Opera Kansas 

 

STAGE DIRECTORS

Victoria Bussert, Dorothy Danner, Alistair Donkin, Jack Eddleman, Joshua Major, Jonathan Miller, George Mully, Carl Ratner,

David Ritch, Buck Ross, Ellen Douglas Schlaefer, Albert Sherman, Paul Brodene Smith, Neale Donald Walsch

 

CONCERTS

FAÇADE (Walton), LES ILLUMINATIONS (Britten), SAINT NICOLAS (Britten – Title Role), POEM IN OCTOBER (Corigliano), 

PARIZADE (Al-Zand, world première – Narrator), BERLIOZ REQUIEM, ORATORIO DE NOËL (Saint-Saëns), HARMONIEMESSE (Haydn), THE CREATION (Haydn – Uriel), PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE (Rossini), MOZART REQUIEM, VESPERAE SOLENNES DE CONFESSORE (Mozart), MATTHÄUSPASSION (J. S. Bach – Evangelist), MASS IN B MINOR (J. S. Bach), JOHANNESPASSION (J. S. Bach – Evangelist), BACH MAGNIFICAT, WEIHNACHTSORATORIUM (J. S. Bach – Evangelist), BACH SOLO CANTATAS #160 & #189, 

LA RESURREZIONE (Handel – San Giovanni), ISRAEL IN EGYPT (Handel), MESSIAH (Handel), 2 TELEMANN SOLO CANTATAS, MATTHÄUSPASSION (C. P. E. Bach – Evangelist), CARMINA BURANA (Orff), SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST (Dubois), RACHMANINOFF VESPERS

 

ORCHESTRAS / COMPANIES

Houston Symphony, Chicago String Ensemble, Sacramento Ballet, Wichita Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony,

Austin Symphony, Ars Lyrica – Houston, Fresno Philharmonic, Michigan Bach Festival, Orquesta Sinfónica de Mineria (Mexico City), Boulder Philharmonic, Anchorage Symphony, Bach Society – Houston, Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, Fresno Community Chorus, Houston Masterworks Chorus, Bayou City Performing Arts, Woodlands Symphony, Westport Ensemble, Detroit Institute of Arts, Houston Chamber Choir, Clemson University Symphony, Rice University, University of Houston, St. John the Divine – Houston,

Christ Church – Grosse Pointe, 

 

CONDUCTORS

Christfried Brödel, Dagang Chen, Matthew Dirst, Christoph Eschenbach, Jack Fortner, Anna Hamre, Henrik Hansen,

Paulette Haupt, Charles Hausmann, Alan Heatherington, Ward Holmquist, Peter Jacoby, Peter Jaffe, Peter Kopp, Theodore Kuchar,

Michael Lankester, Mark Laycock, Albert Ledoux, Linus Lerner, Robert Linder, Robert Lynn, Gustav Meier, James Paul,

Lawrence Rapchak, Stewart Robertson, Robert Simpson, Stephen Stein, Stephen Sulich, Jorge Velazco, Dick Weilenman,

Thomas Wikman, John Yarrington

 

TEACHERS / COACHES

Adele Addison, Lois Alba, Virginia Babikian, Richard Bado, Janet Bookspan, Katherine Ciesinski, Phyllis Curtin, Joseph Evans,

Walter Foster, Kathleen Kaun, Hal Lanier, Jonathan Miller, Elena Nikolaidi, Ira Schantz, William Sharp, George Shirley, 

W. Stephen Smith, Andrea Velis, Vernon Yenne

 

EDUCATION

Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Vocal Performance:  University of Houston, Texas 

Master & Bachelor of Music Degrees in Vocal Performance:  Rice University, Houston, Texas

Ugo di Portanova Scholarship to the Università Per Stranieri di Siena, Italy

Fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival–Vocal Chamber Music Program

Fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center–Opera Program

Apprenticeship with the Glimmerglass Opera