Resumé

Recent Concert Repertoire

Bach  -- Cantata #79 (Gott der Herr)
--Cantata #140 (Wachet auf)
Barber  -- Knoxville:  Summer of 1915
--Prayers of Kierkegaard
Beerman -- Dialogue
-- Voices
Beethoven  -- Symphony #9
Brahms -- Requiem
Britten  -- Ceremony of Carols
Bruckner -- Te Deum
Carissimi  -- Jephte
Fauré -- Requiem
Handel  -- Messiah
Honegger -- Le roi David
Lebenbom – Sephardic Songs
Levy -- Symphony No. 12
Mahler -- Symphony #2 (Resurrection)
Mozart  -- Coronation Mass
 -- Exsultate, Jubilate
 -- Requiem
Poulenc  -- Gloria
Ross -- On a Line by Theodore Roethke
Schubert  -- Mass in Ab
Vivaldi – Gloria

Orchestras, Choruses, Festivals, Organizations

Allen Park Symphony, Allen Park, Michigan
American Composers’ Alliance, NYC
American Music Festival, NYC
Ann Arbor Festival of Song
Art Song Festival, Cleveland Institute of Music
Camphill Village, Copake, NY
Canterbury Singers
Civic Morning Musicals, Syracuse, NY
Dearborn Summer Symphony
Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival
International Symphony Orch Port Huron & Sarnia
Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor
Mariners' Church of Detroit
Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music
Moravian Philharm. Olomouc (Czech Republic)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Pro Musica of Detroit
Society for New Music
Toledo Symphony
University Choral Society, Bowling Green
University of Michigan Campus Orchestra

Roles Performed

Lady Billows -- Albert Herring -- Britten
Witch -- Hansel & Gretel -- Humperdinck
First Lady -- Magic Flute -- Mozart
Mme. Lidoine -- Dialogues des Carmélites -- Poulenc
Rosalinda -- Die Fledermaus -- J. Strauss
Mère Pingret -- Ciboulette -- Hahn
Greta Fiorentino -- Street Scene -- Weill
Annina -- A Night in Venice -- J. Strauss
Lola -- Gallantry -- Moore
Giannetta -- The Gondoliers -- Sullivan
Patience -- Patience -- Sullivan
Rose Maybud -- Ruddigore -- Sullivan
Josephine -- H.M.S. Pinafore -- Sullivan
Angelina -- Trial By Jury -- Sullivan
Mabel Stanley -- Pirates of Penzance -- Sullivan
Princess Ida -- Princess Ida -- Sullivan

Stage Companies

Michigan Opera Theatre
Ohio Light Opera
Toledo Opera
Michigan Lyric Opera
Marquis Theatre (Northville, Michigan)
Ann Arbor Comic Opera Guild
University of Michigan Opera Theatre
University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society
St. Andrews’ Players (Ann Arbor)
Bowling Green Opera

 

Stage Directing

Cabaret show: Art & Science: A Collaborative Cabaret
April 2008 (Compiled and directed)
College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University

Cabaret show: We're Not Sick, We're Just in Love!
April 2005 (Compiled and directed)
College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University

Toledo Opera Summer Opera Camp, upper division
Mikado 2001
Pirates of Penzance 2002

Opera/MT scenes programs
Grand Valley State University; 1998-2000
Bowling Green State University; 2000-present

Mozart's Bastien & Bastienne
Belvoir Terrace Fine Arts Center, 1982

Training

B.M., Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

M.M., D.M.A., University of Michigan

Voice:  Andreas Poulimenos, Lorna Haywood, Trena Haan, Beverley Rinaldi, Neva Pilgrim, Patricia Berlin, Nancy Carr

Coaches:  Martin Katz, Eugene Bossart, Gustav Meier, Italo Tajo, Joan Morris, Kevin Bylsma

Master classes:  Warren Jones, François LeRoux, Dalton Baldwin, Elly Ameling, Thomas Pasatieri

Artist apprenticeship:  Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit

Professional Activities & Teaching Positions

Ann Arbor Festival of Song
Co-Founder, General Director; 
Ann Arbor, Michigan


Currently:
 

Associate Professor of Voice
College of Musical Arts
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio

Past positions: 

Grand Valley State University
Grand Rapids, Michigan

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

University of Toledo, Ohio

Albion College

Adrian College

Spring Arbor College

Belvoir Terrace Fine Arts Center
Lenox, Massachusetts

Professional Affiliations:

NATS
(National Association of
Teachers of Singing)

College Music Society

Recordings

Ernst Levy:  Symphony #12; National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.  Opus One 192.

Burton Beerman: Voices; with bassist Steve Gilewski.  Beerman Unplugged -- Almost.  Capstone Records CPS-8757.

John Ross:  After a Line by Theodore RoethkeOn: New Music from Bowling Green, vol. 5. Albany Records B0017RFXT.

The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel):  UMGASS live recording (1986), released in 2000.  Sounds on CD VGS 231 (UK).

Music of the Genevan Psalter.  Howard Slenk, conductor; recorded summer 1998.  Calvin College, 1999. 

Guest backup singer.  “Tie Me At the Crossroads” – performed by Steve Graham.  On:  Festival of Friends: An Internet Tribute to the Music of Bruce Cockburn (Part 2).  Tape released 1997.

Solo performance, Voice faculty CD for recruitment purposes; BGSU 2002.

Four Songs for Soprano and Clarinet.  Corey F. Sevett, composer.  Minnesota Composers’ Forum, 1986.