UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:

2008

JULY16-19: Ann Arbor Festival of Song’s 15th annual ART FAIR SONG FEST at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor.  Visit www.a2fos.org for more information.

SEPTEMBER 10: Faculty Artist Series recital at Bowling Green State University, with Kevin Bylsma, pianist, Megan Fergusson, viola, Andrew Pelletier, horn, Charles Saenz, trumpet; others TBA. Featuring works by Burton Beerman (Ohio premier of Dialogue, a new chamber work for voice and piano), William Bolcom (Let Evening Come), Handel, Schubert, and others. 8pm Bryan Recital Hall, College of Musical Arts.

NOVEMBER 14-15: Invited performer for Opera Gala at the Kerrytown Concert House

TBA: Collaborative performances for dedication of new Pilzecker organ at Mariners’ Church of Detroit

 

2009

In the works: Collaborative presentation of new music by several American and Canadian composers, with Canadian soprano Jane Leibel and pianist Kevin Bylsma.

Watch this space!

SELECTED RECENT PERFORMANCES:

2008

JUNE 17, Tuesday: Founders' Day party at Kerrytown Concert House; invited performer.

JUNE 7, Saturday: With pianist Kevin Bylsma, presented premier of Dialogue, a new chamber work for voice and piano by Burton Beerman, at the American Composers' Alliance Festival of American Music 7:30pm, Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, NYC

APRIL 18, Friday: Compiled and stage-directed BG Opera show: Art and Science: A Collaborative Cabaret at Bowling Green State University: Shows at 7:30 and 9pm; Wooster Center (on Wooster Street), Bowling Green.

MARCH 25, Tuesday: American standards with BG's amazing jazz pianist Russell Schmidt: Music From Bowling Green series. 8pm Wildwood Metropark Manor House, Toledo

FEBRUARY 28, Thursday: Collaborative recital at Mariners' Church of Detroit for Thursdays in Lent series. With Kevin Bylsma, piano and organ, and Emily Benner and Varya Fitisova, sopranos. .

 

2007

OCTOBER 20:  Performance of Philip Wharton's The Prairie Sings with Kevin Bylsma on Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music’s New Music and Art Festival, Bowling Green State University 

SEPTEMBER 14-15: Parisian Soiree at Kerrytown Concert House.

JUNE 27:  Recital with Kevin Bylsma at Dewitt Community Church in Dewitt, NY. 

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival:  Elaine Lebenbom’s Sephardic Songs with James Tocco, pianist, Philip Dikeman, flute, and Don Baker, oboe.  7:30 pm, St. Hugo’s Chapel, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; June 12-13, 2007.

Wine, Women, and Song at Kerrytown Concert House (Ann Arbor); January 26-27, 2007; the show also closed the Adrian (MI) Symphony’s spring season at Siena Heights College
on June 8, 2007.

Faculty Artist Series recital featuring duets with soprano Emily Benner and pianist Kevin Bylsma, Bowling Green:  January 17, 2007.

Inaugural recital (with Kevin Bylsma) on new Bowling Green Parks Department lunchtime series; January 12, 2007.

2006

Guest artist on evening of Brahms at Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor; November 2006

Performance of Sebastian Birch’s Trois Chansons at Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music's New Music and Art Festival,, Bowling Green; October 2006

Mozart Requiem and Barber Prayers of Kierkegaard with Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra of Olomouc (Czech Republic) and BG University Choral Society, for Mozart 250th anniversary in Vienna (Schönbrunn Palace) and Prague (Rudolfinum); June-July 2006.

Chamber music performance with Andrew Pelletier, horn, at Bowling Green, in March 2006.

2004-2005

Role of the Witch; scenes from Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel with BG Philharmonia, December 4, 2005.

Gala opera scenes concert with the Bowling Green Philharmonia and BG alumni tenor Hugh Smith, April 2005

Brahms' Requiem with Toledo Symphony at Bowling Green, January 2005

New Year's services at St. Paul's Cathedral and at Westminster Abbey with the Canterbury Singers in London, Dec-Jan 2004-05.

Burton Beerman’s Voices with bassist Steve Gilewski at the American Composers’ Alliance's American Music Festival at the Flea Theatre in Tribeca (NYC), June 2004

Other performances in the past few years

Mozart Requiem and the Bruckner Te Deum with the Toledo Symphony, more works in the New Music and Art Festival of the Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music, the Mahler "Resurrection" Symphony No. 2 in Bowling Green, and frequent guest appearances and recitals in venues across the US, and especially at the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor.