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Selected Concert Performances Mozart Vespers University of Illinois Doctoral Recital 2009 Vivaldi Stabat Mater Conductor at Norfolk Summer Festival, Yale School of Music 2009 Purcell Verse Anthems Jewell Early Music Summer Festival Guest Artist 2009 Elements Gravitacion at JEMSFEST 2009 Jephte (Carissimi) University of Illinois Doctoral Recital 2009 Elements Tour with Gravitacion: Chicago, Champaign and Decatur 2009 Nowell Christmas On tour with Liber UnUsualis, Houston, York and Gronignen 2008 Bach Cantata 77 Bass soloist at Allerton Barn Festival, Monticello, IL 2008 Faculty Voice Recital Saint Andrews Summer Arts Council, NB 2008 Il Trionfo del Amor ConcordEnsemble and Piffaro at the Berkeley Festival, CA 2008 El Desperta del Alma Concord Ensemble at the Berkeley Festival, CA 2008 La Mascara del Amor Concord Ensemble at the Bloomington Early Music Festvial 2008 Schubert Mass in G First Presbyterian Church, Monticello IL 2008 Pergolesi Magnificat First Presbyterian Church, Urbana IL 2008 Le Stagioni Gravitacion, Decatur, Champaign and Chicago Tour 2008 Queene and Huntresse! Gravitacion, Bloomington and Springfield, IL 2008 Machaut/Carissimi Gravitacion with Tudor Voices, Illinois Tour 2007 Bach Cantatas First Presbyterian Church, Urbana IL 2007 Schutz/Scarlatti Gravitacion with Tudor Voices and Arte Bella, Illinois Tour 2007 Faure Requiem First Presbyterian Church, Monticello, IL 2007 St. John Passion (Bach) Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana, IL 2007 Mozart Requiem Parkland College, Champaign 2007 'Elements' Tour Madison, WI, Champaign and Charleston, IL 2007 Organ Vespers First Prebyterian Church, Urbana IL 2007 'Make a joyeful noyse' Catacoustic Consort, Cincinnati 2006 'Queene and Huntresse' Gravitacion, Decatur and Champaign 2006 Monteverdi, Mozart Faculty Recital, Urbania, Italy 2006 Bach, Purcell, Schutz Habitat for Humanity Fundraiser, Urbana 2006 Bach Cantata 147 Doctoral Recital, University of Illinois, Champaign 2006 Monteverdi Vespers Baroque Artists of Champaign (BACH), Champaign 2006 Gravitacion Debut concert, Saint Pauls Lutheran, Decatur IL 2006 Messiah, G. F. Handel Renaissance Singers 30th Anniversary, Palmerston North 2005 Wachet Auf, J. S. Bach First Presbytarian Church, Urbana 2005 Five Mystical Songs, R. V-W Indiana University Motet Choir, Andrew Crooks conductor 2005 Kindertotenlieder, Mahler Bloomington Schubertiade 2005 Charpentier Lamentations Concentus, Indiana University 2005 Guatemalan Mass Ensemble Lipzodes at Boston Early Music Fringe Festival 2005 Don Quixote Romances Fenix de los Ingenios at BEMFF 2005 Machaut et al Subtilitas at BEMFF 2005 'Das Lied des Lammes Saint John Passion by Johann Mattheson, BLEMF 2005 World Turn'd Upside Down Seven Times Salt, BLEMF 2005 Musica ad Musicam Indiana University Medieval Symposium/Binkley Memorial 2005 Studiolo und Kunstkammer Concentus, Indiana University 2005 Daley 'Requiem' Baritone soloist with Indiana University Motet Choir 2005 'Opera in Alexandra' Anna Leese, soprano, Andrew Crooks, piano, NZ 2004 Schutz 'Magnificat' Tenor soloist with Indiana University Motet Choir 2004 Schubert Lieder William Averill, fortepiano 2004 'Das Lied des Lammes' Saint John Passion by Johann Mattheson Jesus, Pilatus 2004 Guatemalan Baroque music Ensemble Lipzodes, Bloomington 2004 Solo Recital Tour Palmerston North, Wellington, Dunedin New Zealand 2004 Bach 'Actus Tragicus' 'Bach at Saint Thomas' Bloomington 2004 Bach, Britten, Purcell Including Jesu meine Freude Indiana University Motet Choir 2004 Heinrich Schutz Jesus in 'Die Sieben Worte' Indiana University 2004 Byrd Consort Songs Indiana University Viol Consort 2004 Machaut, Trebor Indiana University Chamber Music 2004 c.17 Venetian Music Pro Arte Singers, Indiana University 2004 Medieval Pilgrimage Indiana University Medieval Symposium/Binkley Memorial 2004 Charpentier, DeLalande with Indiana University Motet Choir 2004 Couperin AIDS Quilt Memorial Concert, Indiana University 2004 Bruhns, Tunder Church of the Nativity, Indianapolis 2004 'Court of Isabelle D'Este' Concentus, Indiana University 2003 'Ich habe genung' (Bach) Indiana University Baroque Orchestra 2003 Buxtehude Kantate 111 Longy School of Music 2003 Ritchie, Mozart, Verdi with Lesley University Chorus, Cambridge 2003 c.17 Wien Imperial Court Old South Lenten Meditation Series, Boston 2003 Schutz, Valentini, Rameau Old North Concert Series, Boston 2003 Charles Ives Longy School 2003 Arias/Standards Boston Music Workshop 2003 Steinmetz New England Conservatory 2002 'Ich habe genung' Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, Boston 2002 Peri, Campra, Monteverdi Dunedin Public Art Galllery 2002 Mozart, Gershwin Church Road Winery, Napier 2002 c.12 Trouvere Songs Longy School 2002 Steinmetz Goethe Institute, Boston 2002 'Messiah' Saint Peter's Church, Weston MA 2001 Schumann op. 35 Carnegie Center, Dunedin 2001 'Italieniches Liederbuch' (Wolf) University of Otago 2000 'Judas Maccabeus' University of Otago 2000 'Wachet Auf!' (Bach) Knox Church, Dunedin 2000 'Crucifixion' (Stainer) Knox Church 2000 'Petit Messe Solenelle' (Rossini) University of Otago 1999 'Liverpool Oratorio' (McCartney) University of Otago 1998 Opera Roles and Staged Opera Experience Chorus Romeo et Juliette Krannert Center For Performing Arts 2008 Colin The Cooper (Arne) Bloomington Early Music Festival 2005 Aeneas Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) Indiana University Opera 2005 Ben The Telephone (Menotti) Opera on the Other Side 2005 Fisher The Tide (Blacher) Indiana University Studio Opera 2005 Adonis Venus and Adonis (Blow) Anima e Corpo Ensemble, Bloomington 2004 Ben The Telephone (Menotti) Bloomington Music Works 2004 Chorus Tosca (Puccini) Indiana University Opera Theater 2004 Aeneas Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) Bloomington Chamber Opera Company 2004 Boree/Pan Cephale et Procris (de la Guerre) Longy School, Cambridge MA 2003 Antonio Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Boston Classical Orchestra 2003 Surgeon Le Malade Imaginaire (Charpentier) Longy School 2003 Orfeo L'Euridice (Peri) Longy School 2002 Adonis Venus and Adonis (Blow) Longy School 2002 Chorus Dido and Aeneas Harvard Early Music Society 2002 Cripple Our American Cousin (Sawyer) Longy School 2001 Man The Trapeze Artists (Ritchie) Otago Festival of the Arts 2000 Papageno The Magic Flute (Mozart) Century Theatre, Napier 2000 Frank Outrageous Fortune (Whitehead) Dunedin 1998 Antonio Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Opera Otago 1998 Directing/Conducting Director New Brunswick Early Music Festival Community Chorus 2009-2010 Stage Director Dido and Aeneas, New Brunswick Early Music Festival 2009 Assistant to Oratorio Society, University of Illinois 2008-2009 Assistant to University of Illinois Chamber Singers 2008-2009 Assistant Chorus Director Romeo et Juliette KCPA, Urbana IL 2008 Director Handel Scenes from 'Radamisto' and 'Imeneo' Saint Andrews, NB 2008 Conductor Vivaldi 'Gloria' Saint Andrews Summer Arts Council, NB 2008 Guest Director Tudor Voices Spring Concert, Millikin University 2008 Musical Director The Impresario: Milikin University Opera Theater 2008 Guest Director Tudor Voices: Guillaume de MachautMesse de Nostre Dame 2007 Director La Capella Urbania, Scenes from Handel's Alcina, Urbania Italy 2007 Guest Director Tudor Voices: Heinrich Schutz Musikalische Exequien 2007 Musical Director J. S. Bach Coffee Cantata (Staged) Millikin University 2007 Director The Magic Flute Kirkland Fine Arts Center PASS Opera 2006 Director Capella Ducale, Baroque Opera Scenes, Urbania, Italy 2006-2007 Director Opera Workshop Scenes Millikin University 2006-2007 Director the bath street studio Indiana University 2004-2005 Assistant Concentus Ensemble Indiana University 2004-2005 Director Otago Camerata Dunedin 1998-2007 Director School Choir Kavanagh Colege, Dunedin 2001 Conductor Junior Choir Knox Church 2001 Conductor Marama Singers University of Otago 2000 Conductor Dunedin Youth Orchestra Otago Tour 2000 Leader OK Chorale Palmerston North Boys High School 1996 Director Sciolto Palmerston North Girls High School 1995-1996 Musical Theatre and Operetta Chorus 'HMS Pinafore' Indiana University Opera Theater 2005 Rolf 'The Sound of Music' Taieri Musical Society, Mosgiel 1998 Kenickie 'Grease' Nga Tawa Diocesan School, Marton 1996 |
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