Repertoire & Experience

* denotes a world premiere *

Opera, Oratorio and Dramatic roles

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier; Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse; Sancho Pança and
Georg Philipp Telemann; Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho; Sancho Panza; The Three Don Quixotes, dir. Graham Bier under Viriditas Opera; Music at Paxton Festival, Scotland; 2010
Anonymous; The Transfiguration; John the Apostle; York Medieval Mystery Plays; 2010
Claudio Monteverdi; Il Combattimento di Tancredi & Clorinda; Testo, Tenor; Barocca, York; 2010
Emily Kalies; noitcelfeRRelfection*; Soloist; Sensorium, The Links Project, York; 2010
Hilary Nicholls; The Emperor’s New Clothes*; The Emperor, Tenor, opera scene; Viriditas Opera, York; 2009
Anoymous; Mary Magdalene; Planctus Maria - Heu! Me misera (France-Tours 927) and
Visitatio Sepulchri (Vadstena Ordinal, MS. C. 506 Uppsala); Viriditas Opera; 2009 and 2010
W. A. Mozart; Le Nozze di Figaro, Director, in scenes; The Operagasmic Project; 2009
Henry Purcell; Oedipus, Soloist and
G.F. Handel; Acis & Galatea, Chorus; in scenes; York Opera Society Gala Concert; 2008
Hildegard von Bingen; Ordo Virtutum; Celestial Love; Viriditas Opera; 2008
Jon Hughes; Antigone*, Isemene and Eurydice; Viriditas Opera; 2008
Henry Purcell; Dido and Aeneas, Dido and
Georges Bizet, Carmen, Carmen; in scenes; York Opera Society Gala Concert; 2007
G. F. Handel; Messiah, Alto Soloist; Handel on Hunger benefit concert, Cheektowaga Symphony, dir. Kathleen Keenan-Takagi; 2006
Giacomo Carissimi; Jepthe, Historicus; Eastman Collegium Musicum, dirs. Paul O’Dettte and Kristian Bezuidenhout; 2003
Edvard Grieg; Olav Tryggvason, Chorus; Harvard Dudley Choir & Orchestra; 2001
Giacomo Puccini; Suor Angelica, Chorus; Urbania, Italy; 1997
W. S. Gilbert; The Princess, Hilarion and
W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan; Princess Ida, Chorus: as part of The Three Princesses Project, dir. Gayden Wren; The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, Philadelphia; 1997
Matthew Quayle; Vignettes*; Soloist; Oberlin Conservatory; 1996
Tom Stoppard; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; The Player; 1992
Adelmo Dunghe; The Spiritual Workout of St. Ignatius Loyola*; Judy; 1991

Solos

Claudio Monteverdi; Nigra sum; Tenor soloist, with Javanese gamelan accompaniment; Hall of Harmonies, York; 2010
FL Dunkin Wedd; Ultime mie speranze*; Baritone soloist; Festival Mediterranea, Victoria, Gozo, Malta; 2009
Soprano soloist, York Opera Society Charity benefit concert; 2008
Soloist, Director; YoMAMA; York Minster; 2008
Johannes Brahms, Alban Berg, Samuel Barber, & Leonard Bernstein; Meet the Faculty Recital Series; Solo recital, Persis Vehar, piano; Canisius College; 2006
Johannes Brahms; Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65; Soprano soloist, Alto Duet; BPC Chamber Singers, dir. L Brett Scott; 2005
Domenico Mazzocchi; Lamento di David; Alto soloist; Eastman Collegium Musicum; 2003
Giacomo Carissimi; Usquequo peccatores; Soprano soloist; Eastman Collegium Musicum; 2003
Heinrich Schütz; Musicalische Exequien; Soprano II soloist; Harvard Dudley Consort; 2002
Ralph Vaughan Williams; Mass in G Minor; Soprano soloist; Harvard Dudley Consort; 2002
Thomas Tallis; Lamentationes Ieremiae II; Soprano soloist; The Goddess' Musicke; Tallis Scholars Gala concert; 2002
Soprano soloist; Longy Chamber Chorus, dir. Lorna Cooke de Varon; 2001
Samuel Barber; Hermit Songs; Staff Solo recital; Camp Encore/ Coda; 1999
Luzzasco Luzzaschi; madrigals; Soprano soloist; Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, dir. Lisa Goode Crawford; 1996 – 7
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan; various; Solos in musicals, concerts, workshops and revues; Oberlin; 1993 – 7
G. P. da Palestrina and Thomas Tallis; various; Soprano soloist; Oberlin Collegium Musicum, dir. Steven Plank; 1994 – 8
Various; weddings, baptisms, funerals, parties, benefit and charity concerts; Soloist; 1994 - present

Choral

Bass; 'Vivaldi's Women' (Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi); Festival Mediterranea, Victoria, Gozo, Malta; October 2009
Contralto, Soloist, Co-Founder; Juniper; female trio based in York; 2009 - present
Antonín Dvorák, JS Bach and Ralph Vaughan Williams; Virginia Symphony Chorus and Northern Czech Philharmonic tour; Chorus, Section Leader; Prague, Leipzig, Berlin; dir. Robert Shoup; 2007
Randol Bass; Passage Into Spirit*; Alto Section Leader; Buffalo Philhamonic Orchestra & Chorus, dir. L. Brett Scott; 2007
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus & Chamber Singers; Member, Soloist, Alto Section Leader; 2004 - 7
Claudio Monteverdi; Vesperae Beatae Mariae Virginis 1610; Chorus; Oberlin Collegium Musicum, Apollo's Fire and Concerto Palatino; 1997
New York State All-State and All-County Chorus; NYSSMA; A+ ratings for all solos; 1988 - 93

Conducting, Teaching

Voice Teacher; giving tuition to female tenors & basses; York; 2010 - present
Co-conductor with Graham Coatman; NorthEastern Early Music Forum, Venetian Christmas Music; 2009
Mentor, Coach, Vivaldi's Women Summer School; Bass section leader, rehearsal director, vocal coach; 2009
Music Instructor; taught voice lessons, vocal performance class, jazz choir, chamber choir, music history & theory; Camp Encore/ Coda; 1993 - 5, 99

Workshops, Collaborations & Composition

Sensorium; collaboration on the composition and performance of noitcelfeRReflection* by Emily Kalies; York; 2009-10
Robert Harre Jones, Berty Rice, Francis Steele; Verte Musique, La Maison Verte; late Medieval and Renaissance intensive song workshop; 2009
Black Hair Ensemble; co-composer and performer in Staring Girl*; 5-week workshop and concert presentation lead by contemporary music group on improvisation, composition, and music-theatre; York; 2008
Robert Hollingworth; Lacock Singing in Venice Renaissance course; Venetian music of the 16th century; 2008
Philip Thorby, David Hatcher, Jacob Heringman; Cambridge Early Music Summer School; German Renaissance music for voices and instruments; 2008
NorthEastern Early Music Forum; Mary E. Larew; Music of the Eton Choir Book; Dore, Sheffield; 2008
John Potter; Improvisation in Jazz & Early Music; 2008
Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars; Renaissance vocal music; 2002, 04, 06 – 08

Other Media

Recording/ Filming; Colonial Pictures; Vivaldi’s Gloria and In Exitu Israel with SPAV/ Vivaldi’s Women, Sky Arts TV documentary based on Peter Ackroyd’s book Venice; first aired on Sky Arts September 2009
Recording voice-over; How to Lose 6 pounds in 6 Hours*, Emily Kalies and The Northern School of Contemporary Dance; premiered in spring 2009
Interviewee; La Terra Promessa, documentary; The Federation of Italian American Societies of Western New York; 2007
Photograph on Exhibit; CEPA Gallery, Visions of Greater Buffalo; 2007
Featured Artist Profile; Artscope, Adelphia cable TV show, Buffalo; 2006
Contestant; TV game show Jeopardy!, Los Angeles, CA; 2001
Mandinka Ensemble; instruction on the kora (West African bridge harp) under Prof. Roderic Knight, Oberlin; 1997
Model; print, runway/ catwalk, commercial, fashion; 1997 - present
Actor, Model; TV commerical for Taco Bell, Cleveland, OH; 1997
Radio DJ; WOBC 92.5, Oberlin College, as DJ Hildegard, of two shows: Magnum Mysterium, Renaissance vocal polyphony; and Tonality Sucks!, pre- and post-tonal music; 1994 - 1997

Erté 'Queen of the Night'

Vocal studies

Lynne Dawson, Yvonne Seymour, Robert Vehar, Cristen Gregory, Pamela Dellal, Daniel McCabe, Gerald Crawford, Daune Mahy, Genia Las, Christine Stark.

Performed with

The Lords of Misrule, Peter Collis, Richard Vendome, Ensemble Bright Cecilia, Robert Hollingworth, Philip Thorby, Mary E. Larew, John Potter, Peter Seymour, Robert Shoup, The Virginia Symphony Chorus, The Northern Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Marvin Hamlisch, Kathleen Keenan-Takagi, Persis Vehar, The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, L. Brett Scott, Robert Franz, Ron Spiegelman, Patrick Macey, Paul O’Dette, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Peter Phillips, JanJoost van Elburg, Andrew Carwood, David Skinner, David Woodcock, Lorna Cooke de Varon, Gayden Wren, Steven Plank, Apollo’s Fire, Concerto Palatino, Lisa Goode Crawford, Ruth Saltman, Frank Scinta.

Coachings

Juice, Robert Harre Jones, Berty Rice, David Hatcher, Deborah Roberts, John Potter, Anna Maria Friman, Randol Bass, Vance George, William Weinert, Robert Porco, Patrick Craig, Jan Coxwell, Ghislaine Morgan, Francis Steele, Carlo Morganti, Peggy Atkinson.

Featured soloist

Viriditas Opera, York Madly Aspiring Musicians’ Association, York Opera Society, Buffalo Philharmonic Chamber Singers, Cheektowaga Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Collegium Musicum, Longy Chamber Singers, Harvard Dudley Choir & Orchestra, Harvard Dudley Consort, Oberlin Collegium Musicum, Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, Oberlin Gilbert & Sullivan Players.