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Teaching/Directing

Teaching

Adjunct Faculty, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, City University of New York
Private Voice Studio (NYC)
Private Dramatic Coaching Studio (NYC)

Recent Acting for Singers Master Classes and Professional Skills Workshops:

  • Manhattan School of Music
  • Cincinnati College-Conservatory
  • NATS South Louisiana Chapter
  • Greensboro, NC Area Colleges, sponsored by Greensboro Opera
  • University of Dayton
  • University of Evansville
  • Princeton University
  • William Paterson University
  • Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI

Upcoming Acting for Singers Master Classes and Professional Skills Workshops:

  • Seagle Colony
  • New Jersey Opera Theater Young Artist Program
  • Texas Christian University
  • Vassar College
  • Columbia University

Directing

Productions:

  • Spring Opera Scenes, (Queens College)
  • Dido and Aeneas (Queens College)
  • Mostly Massenet, (Queens College)
  • La Calisto (asst. director, Juilliard Opera Theater, Juilliard School)
  • Bel Canto Opera Scenes (Queens College)
  • Romantic Opera Scenes (Queens College)
  • Opera Scenes Project (NYC)
  • Fiddler on the Roof (Festival of the Continents)
  • America Abroad (opera and musical scenes for "American Voices" in Stendal, Germany)
  • New American Short plays (Ensemble Studio Theater Octoberfest)
  • Scenes from "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", "Hamlet" (Ensemble Studio Thea. Summer Fest.)

Upcoming Productions:

  • Kurt Weill Scenes (Queens College)
  • Le Nozze di Figaro (Queens College)
  • Aesop’s Fables (Greensboro Opera)
  • The Consul (El Dorado Opera)

Educational residencies: Miami Opera, Disney Theatrical, American Voices

Preformance Credits

Opera Companies

La Scala Milan
Wiener Staatsoper
L'Opéra de Nice
Hong Kong Opera
New York City Opera National Company
Kennedy Center Special Production
Atlanta Opera
Opera Columbus
Cleveland Opera
Florentine Opera
New Orleans Opera
Utah Opera
Opera Festival of New Jersey
Skylight Opera Theater
Tulsa Opera
Kentucky Opera
Tampa Bay Opera

Opera Tampa
Texas Opera Theater
Baton Rouge Opera
Mississippi Opera
Mobile Opera
Chattanooga Opera
Opera at Florham
Opera New England
Connecticut Grand Opera
Buffalo Opera
Rochester Opera
Pittsburgh Opera Theater
Opera Delaware
Opera Grand Rapids
American Opera Projects
Greensboro Opera
El Dorado Opera

Operatic Roles (partial list)

Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Goro (Madama Butterfly)
Spoletta (Tosca)
Emperor Altoum (Turandot)
Witch (Hansel and Gretel)
Four Servants (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Spalanzani (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Guillot (Manon)
Dr. Caius (Falstaff)
Bardolph (Falstaff)
Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus)
Dr. Blind (Die Fledermaus)
Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Scaramuccio (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Schoolmaster/Mosquito (The Cunning Little Vixen)
Monostatos (The Magic Flute)
Remendado (Carmen)
Gastone (La Traviata)
Borsa (Rigoletto)
Albert (Albert Herring)

Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors)
President Chester A. Arthur (The Ballad of Baby Doe)
Father Confessor (Dialogues of the Carmelites)
Duke (Patience)
Shepherd/Spirit (Orfeo - Monteverdi)
Don Carlos (Les Indes Galantes - Rameau)
Pozzo (El Capitan - Sousa)
Trio Tenor (Trouble in Tahiti)
Analyst (A Quite Place - Bernstein)
St. Brioche (The Merry Widow)
Cheever (The Crucible)
Damon (Dido and Aeneas)
Mengone (Lo Speziale - Haydn)
Ivan (The Music Shop - Wargo)
Lawyer (Punch and Judy - Birtwistle)
Trinculo (The Tempest - Westergaard)
Pachomius (The Egg - Menotti)
Major-General (Pirates of Penzance)

Opera Apprenticeship Programs

Wolf Trap Opera
Santa Fe Opera
Des Moines Metro Opera

Concert Solos

Milwaukee Symphony
New Haven Symphony
L'Opéra Français de New York
Musica Sacra (NYC)
92nd St. Y Schubertiade (with Hermann Prey)
National Chorale
Concert Royale

Aspen Music Festival
New York Festival of Song (NYFOS)
Sine Nomine Singers
SUNY Oneonta
SUNY New Paltz
Chilmark Chamber Concerts
Music From Salem
Evansville, Indiana Philharmonic

Early Music

Pomerium
Ensemble for Early Music
Music Before 1800
Early Music New York

Professional Choral Work (partial list)

Musica Sacra
New York Choral Artists (New York Philharmonic)
Concert Chorale of New York (American Symphony Orchestra)
Opera Orchestra of New York
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space NYC
Orpheon Chorale
Bard Festival

Theater Companies

Disney Theatrical
Lincoln Center Theater
Ensemble Studio Theater (NYC)
Chicago Cultural Center
Ridge Theater (NYC)
Jose Quintero Theater (NYC)

Revolving Shakespeare (NYC)
Polaris North (NYC)
Todo Con Nada (NYC)
Key West Festival of the Continents
Kasser Theater (Montclair, NJ)

Theater Roles (partial list)

Lumiere
Monsieur D'Arque (Disney's Beauty & the Beast)
Motel (Fiddler on the Roof)
Dromio of Ephesus (The Boys from Syracuse)
Peter Quince (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Man #1 (The Exception and the Rule - Brecht/Guare)

Holofernes (Love's Labor's Lost)
Brizzhalov/Champugne (The Sneeze - Chekhov/Frayn)
Vaco (Dylan's Line - J. Gelber)
Tubal (Dr. of Rome: Merchant II)
Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland)
Spokesman (Oedipus - H. Partch)

Film & TV

Prime (Streep, Thurman)
Francesca (2004 Dusty Award Winner)
Warmth (2001 Dusty Award Winner)
The Conan O'Brien Show
Ménage à trois (Sheshootstoconquer Productions)
Alex in Insuranceland (Atlantic Mutual Industrial)
POVs (New York University Graduate Film)
Momentary Purge (Columbia University Graduate Film)

Commercials

Audi
McDonalds
Aventis (Nasacort)
Wendy's
Pennsylvania Lottery

Home Goods
Pizza Hut
E-Trade
Clairol
Colgate

Print Ads

IBM
Océ
American Express
Maxim Magazine

Professional Affiliations/Representation/Education

Professional Affiliations

Actors' Equity Association
Screen Actors Guild
American Guild of Musical Artists
College Music Society

Representation

Opera and Concert: Dorothy Cone Artist Representatives

Theater, TV and Film: Clear Talent Group, New York City

Commercial: Innovative Artists, New York City

Print: Reich NY

Education

Empire State College, State University of New York, M.A.L.S. (Opera Studies) in progress (completion date Dec. 2007)

BFA Purchase College, State University Of New York

New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Courses towards Certificate in Translation (French to English)

Conservatoire Américain, Fontainebleau, France, Certificate

Britten-Pears School, Aldeburgh, England, Anthony Gishford Award

Caymichael Patten Acting Studio, NYC

Ensemble Studio Theater Actor/Director Lab, NYC

Voice Teachers

Bruce Norris
Whitfield Lloyd
Thomas Cultice
Elizabeth Mannion
Paul Derenne

Coaching

Patricia Brooks
Samuel Sanders
Anthony Newman
Robert Levin
Myron Fink
Nico Castel
Roger Vignoles
Edward Beck
Steven Blier

Steven Eldredge
Steven Lutvak
Michael Barrett
Stephen Ralls
Bruce Ubukata
Gilberte Lecompte
Mitchell Cirker
Katherine Olsen
Dan Smith

Master Classes

Gérard Souzay
John Shirley-Quirk
Joan Cross
Peter Pears
Oren Brown
Hugues Cuénod

Acting and Dance Studios

Caymichael Patten
Deborah Hedwall
Joel Asher
Patrick Page
Mariko Ballentine: On-Camera Commercial Technique
Nadette Stasa: On-Camera Commercial and Voiceover Technique
Polaris North Actors' Collective (NYC)
Steps (NYC)
Broadway Dance Center (NYC)

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