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Teaching/Directing

Teaching

  • Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College/CUNY, Adjunct Lecturer, Director Queens College Opera Studio
  • Hofstra University, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Voice
  • Wagner College, Adjunct Lecturer
  • Westchester Summer Vocal Institute
  • Baroque Opera Workshop at Queens College
  • Maryland Summer Center for the Arts (Salisbury University)
  • 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
  • Opera New Jersey
  • Seagle Colony
  • NATS South Louisiana Chapter
  • Greensboro, NC Area Colleges, sponsored by Greensboro Opera
  • University of Dayton
  • Texas Christian University
  • Vassar College
  • University of Evansville
  • Princeton University
  • William Paterson University
  • Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI

Directing

Productions:

  • Suor Angelica/La Damoiselle Elue (Queens College)
  • Excerpts from Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Il Coronazione di Poppea, La Calisto (Baroque Opera Workshop at Queens College)
  • Rigoletto (Queens Symphony Orchestra)
  • Postcard From Morocco (Queens College) – National Opera Association Third Prize Winner (Category IV)
  • Die Zauberflöte (Queens College)
  • The Ruined Maid (Seymour Barab, composer) – After Dinner Opera Co., Symphony Space, New York City
  • Baroque Opera Scenes (Baroque Opera Workshop at Queens College)
  • “Citywide Youth Opera Makes a Scene” (Opera Scenes)
  • L’Orfeo - Monteverdi (Queens College) - National Opera Association First Prize Winner (Category II)
  • “Lovers and Other Operatic Strangers” – Opera Scenes (Queens Coll.)
  • Così fan tutte (OSH Opera Company) Symphony Space, New York City
  • Death in Summer (G. Wramage, composer) – Excerpts (Manhattan School of Music)
  • “Musical Theatre Rarities” (Maryland Summer Center for the Arts)
  • Le Nozze di Figaro (Queens College)
  • “Doomed Divas and Other Operatic Types” – Opera Scenes (Queens Coll)
  • “Musical Theatre Potpourri” (Maryland Summer Center for the Arts)
  • Dialogues of the Carmelites – Abridged (Queens College)
  • Dido and Aeneas (Citywide Youth Opera)
  • “Spring Opera Scenes” (Queens College)
  • Dido and Aeneas (Queens College)
  • Opera Scenes (Citywide Youth Opera)
  • Mostly Massenet, (Queens College)
  • La Calisto (asst. director, Juilliard Opera Theater, Juilliard School)
  • “Bel Canto Opera Scenes” (Queens College)
  • “Romantic Opera Scenes” (Queens College)
  • 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:

  • From Berlin to Potsdam – A Kurt Weill Cabaret (Crane School of Music/SUNY Potsdam)
  • La Tragedie de Carmen – OSH Opera , NYC

Awards/Conference Presentations/Competition Judging:

  • National Opera Association Opera Production Competition 3rd Place Winner (Category IV), Postcard From Morocco (Argento), Queens College/CUNY
  • Classical Singer Competition Judge – First Round – Hofstra University
  • Presenter, National Opera Association Convention 2011 – “A Comparison of Dramatic Coaching Techniques Based on Three Approaches to Operatic Acting”
  • National Opera Association Opera Production Competition 1st Place Winner (Category II) L’Orfeo (Monteverdi), Queens College, CUNY
  • Winner, National Opera Association Scholarly Paper Compeition, 2009 – “Wagner, Appia, and ‘Authorial Intention,’” Presented at NOA Convention.  Paper to be published in Opera Notes - expected publishing date 2012.
  • NATS Regional Competition Judge – South Louisiana Chapter

Summer Programs and Educational Residencies:

Professional Affiliations

National Opera Association
National Association of Teachers of Singing
Actor’s Equity Association
Screen Actors Guild
American Guild of Musical Artists
College Music Society

Performance 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 – 1st and 2nd National Companies of Beauty and the Beast
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

Education

Empire State College, State University of New York, M.A.L.S. (Opera Studies)
B.F.A. 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)