20TH & 21ST CENTURY MUSIC

Mar 08

Switchboard Music Festival

San Francisco

Erik Jekabson

 A Step Away From Them

Mar 08

Other Minds Festival 13

San Francisco

Dieter Schnebel

Quintessenz, Poem für 4 Köpfe (U.S. Premiere)

Mar 08

Martin Morley, conductor

Lafayette, CA

John Rutter
Samuel Barber

Requiem
Three Songs Op. 45

Feb 08

The Yeager String Quartet:
    New American Music for
    Voice and Instruments

San Francisco

V. Aghababian
Jacob Bertrand
JooWan Kim
Liam Wade
Samuel Barber

Seven Songs (West Coast Premiere)
Etude for Soprano and Harp (World Premiere)
Vocalise (World Premiere)
4 Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (World Premiere)
Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Nov 07

Sacramento Festival of New
    American Music, Earplay

Sacramento

Wayne Peterson

Freedom and Love
Tympan Ally for Soprano and Percussion

Oct 07

New Music Works

Santa Cruz

Aaron Jay Kernis

Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby

Sep 07

Earplay Presents: Wayne
    Peterson at 80

San Francisco

Wayne Peterson

Freedom and Love for Soprano and Percussion
                                                      (World Premiere)

Apr 07

John Thow Memorial Concert 

Berkeley

John Thow

On Love: Three Poems of Robert Creeley

Feb 07

San Francisco Song Festival:
    Hook Line and Singer II

San Francisco

John Harbison
Jake Heggie
Ruth Huber

Mirabai Songs (excerpts)
Selected Songs
Lorca Songs

Nov 06

Berkeley Jazz School

Berkeley

Erik Jekabson

Vista Nonet (World Premiere)

Oct 06

Ives String Quartet
    Mockingbird Vocal Quartet

Palo Alto,
San Francisco,
San Jose

M. McCallister
Graham Hair
John Peterson

Annail Cune (World Premiere)
Stonehenge (World Premiere)
Sunrise Land (US Premiere)

Sep 06

Amherst College, Buckley Hall

Amherst, MA

Eric Sawyer

Itasca (East Coast Premiere)
Vocalise

May 06

Center for New Music and
    Technology

Berkeley

Eric Sawyer

Itasca (World Premiere)
Vocalise (West Coast Premiere)

Jun 05

Target Concert, Songfest

Malibu

Jake Heggie

Sweet Light (West Coast Premiere)

May 05

SF Conservatory Hellman Hall

San Francisco

Paul Hindemith

Die Serenaden

Apr 05

SF Song Festival
    Hook Line and Singer I

San Francisco

Jocelyn Hagen

Songs of Fields and Prairies (World Premiere)

Nov 03

Miranda Loud, conductor

Boston

John Rutter

Requiem

Feb 03

Longy School of Music

Cambridge, MA

V. Aghababian

Seven Songs (World Premiere)

Mar 02

Longitude

Cambridge, MA

John Harbison

Mirabai Songs (Chamber Ensemble Version)

Mar 02

Longitude

Brunswick, ME

John Harbison

Mirabai Songs (Chamber Ensemble Version)

OPERA

May 08

Ravel

L'enfant et les sortileges

Feu, Princesse,
Rossignol

Berkeley Opera

Jonathan Khuner, conductor

Mar 07

Mozart

Die Entführung … Serail

Blondchen

Berkeley Opera

George Thompson, conductor;

Feb 06

Verdi

Falstaff

Nannetta

Berkeley Opera

Jonathan Khuner, conductor

Dec 04

Humperdink

Hansel & Gretel

Dew Fairy

SFCM Opera Theater

Kathy Cathcart, conductor

Jul 99

Mozart

Cosi fan Tutte

Despina

Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse

Peter Gutowski conductor

Apr 99

Mozart

Cosi fan Tutte

Despina

UMASS Opera Theater

Beth Parker, conductor

Feb 99

Purcell

Dido and Aeneas

First Witch

UMASS Opera Theater

Dorothy Ornest, conductor

Nov 98

Gilbert & Sullivan

Patience

Patience

Valley Light Opera

Michael Greenebaum, conductor

CONCERT, ORATORIO & EARLY MUSIC

Jun 08

Boston Guitarfest,
    Jordan Hall

Boston

Music of the Spanish Baroque period

Richard Savino, guitar

Apr 08

Noe Valley Chamber Music

San Francisco

Schubert

Der Hirt auf dem Felsen

Carey Bell, Clarinet;
Bryndon Hassman, Piano

Feb 08

St. Dominic's Cathedral

San Francisco

Pergolesi

Stabat Mater

Simon Berry, conductor

Nov 07

El Mundo, Synod Hall

Pittsburgh

Spanish Zarzuela, Mission Opera of Latin America: 1700 – 1800

Richard Savino, director, guitar

Sep 07

Marin Symphony

San Rafel, CA

Mozart

Der Hölle Rache

George Thomson, conductor

May 07

Noe Valley Chamber Music

San Francisco

J. S. Bach

Cantata BWV 51

Jake Heggie, piano

Dec 06

St. Stephen’s Cathedral

Orinda, CA

Handel

Messiah

Martin Morley, conductor

Mar 06

UC Berkeley, Hertz Hall

Berkeley

J. S. Bach

Matthäuspassion

Marika Kuzma, conductor

Mar 05

SFCM Concerto Competition Finals

San Francisco

R. Strauss

Brentano Lieder

Steven Bailey, piano

Apr 04

Arlington Philharmonic

Boston

Mendelssohn

Lauda Sion

Barry Singer, conductor

Dec 03

Masterworks Chorale

Lexington, MA

Handel

Messiah

Allen Lannom, conductor

Nov 02

St. Peter’s Episcopal

Weston, MA

Faure

Requiem

Miranda Loud, conductor

Aug 02

SoHIP Concert Series

Boston

Vocal music for Pentacost: 1200 – 1400

Voices Rising Ensemble

SOLO RECITAL

Mar 08

Palo Alto

Hillary Nordwell, piano

Schumann, Schubert, Duke, Heggie

Bing Concert Series 

Stanford Hospital Atrium

Feb 08

San Francisco

Yeager String Quartet, Steven Bailey, pno

Aghababian, Wade, Kim, Bertrand, Barber

New American Chamber Music

SFCM Recital Hall

Dec 07

Berkeley

Steven Bailey, piano

Purcell, Schubert, Schumann R. Strauss, Heggie, Debussy

Private Event

Bayview Place

Nov 07

Cambridge

Lisa DeSiro, piano

Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Britten

DeSiro and Friends

Pickman Hall

May 07

San Francisco

Steven Bailey, piano

Copland, Heggie, Schubert, R. Strauss

Private Event

SF Swedenborg Chapel

Feb 07

San Francisco

Steven Bailey, piano

Harbison, Heggie, Huber

SF Song Festival

SFCM Recital Hall

Jun 06

Cambridge

Lisa DeSiro, piano

Erik Satie

DeSiro and Friends

Pickman Hall

May 05

San Francisco

Steven Bailey, piano;
On the Spot Bach Ensemble

Britten, Debussy, JS. Bach R. Strauss, Joni Mitchell

PG Degree Recital

SFCM Hellman Hall

Apr 05

San Francisco

Steven Bailey, piano

Jocelyn Hagen

SF Song Festival

Meyer Hall, Temple Emanu-el

May 03

Lincoln, MA

Lisa DeSiro, piano

Wolf, Britten, Brahms

BASC Event

Bemis Hall

May 02

Cambridge

Lisa DeSiro, Brian Moll, piano; Charlyn Bethel, oboe

Faure, Debussy, Aghababian, JS Bach

MM Degree Recital

Longy, Pickman Hall

May 99

Amherst MA

Brenda Miller, piano

Poulenc, Argento, Rorem, Rachmaninoff, Duke

Senior Recital

Hampshire College

EDUCATION

2005

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Post Graduate Diploma, Voice

Department Honors

2002

Longy School of Music

Master of Music, Vocal Performance

Highest Honors

1999

Hampshire College 

Bachelor of Arts, Music & The Related Arts

 

TEACHERS

Sheri Greenawald

San Francisco Opera Center

Wendy Hillhouse

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Anna Gabrieli

Longy School of Music

Rodney Gisick

Amherst College

Mary Lee Cirella

Tufts University

MASTER CLASSES

Oren Brown
Nathan Gunn
Daniel Helfgot
Graham Johnson
Martin Katz
Barbara Kilduff

John Harbison
Jake Heggie
Ken Noda
Craig Smith
Irma Vallecillo
Jose Van Dam

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

2006

East Bay Opera League Finalist, Oakland

2006

NATS Artist Awards District Finalist, Bay Area Chapter

2005

Winner, SF Bay Area NATS Singing Festival, Art Song and Age Divisions

2005

Voice Department Award, SF Conservatory of Music

2005

SF Conservatory Vocal Concerto Competition Finalist

2004

Winner,  SF Conservatory American Art Song Competition

2004

NATS Artist Awards Regional Finalist, New England Region

2002

Victor Rosenbaum Award for Highest Academic and Artistic Achievement, Longy School of Music

CHURCH EMPLOYMENT

St. Dominic's Catholic Church

San Francisco

St. Francis Lutheran Church

San Francisco

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Oakland, CA

St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church

Oakland, CA

St. Peter's Episcopal Church

Weston, MA

Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst

Amherst, MA

Acton Congregational Church

Acton, MA


PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES

            Songfest 2004, 2005
            Western Wind Northampton Workshop, 2001
            Co-founder, Boston Art Song Collective (BASC)
            Voice Teacher, 9 Years
            Reiki Practitioner