OPERA REPERTOIRE

TEACHING

Royal Northern College of Music - Visting Coach/Pianist

Leeds Conservatoire - Senior Lecturer

Leeds University, School of Music - Visiting Teacher

Sept 2015 - present

Accompanist for Inspiration Choir Leeds performing with the Orchestra of Opera North

October 2015 - May 2016

Scottish Opera Emerging Artist - Repetiteur and Assistant Conductor

April 2014 - Nov 2015

Music Director of Clapham Opera Festival

July 2012 - Dec 2015

Musical Team with the St John of Jerusalem Festival Chorus and Hackney Singers

April 2008 – June 2009

Cardiff International Academy of Voice (CIAV) - Staff Repetiteur

April 2006

The Wexford Festival Opera Artists Development Programme (ADP) – Repetiteur

Aug. 2004 -2006

V.O.I.C.Experience 2004: Sherrill Milnes & Friends – Repetiteur

CONDUCTING

2017 - Preparation of Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra in Mozart Requiem

2014 - Preparation of Haydn Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven Mass in C, Haydn Te Deum and Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate

2014 - Preparation of St John of Jerusalem Festival Chorus, Minerva Consort, Harpenden Choral Society and Hackney Singers

May 2004
Berlioz’s Les Nuits D’Été with soprano and chamber orchestra

Jan. 2003
LaGuardia High School Winter Chorus and Orchestra Concert

SELECTED CONCERT EXPERIENCE

Jan - March 2016

Music Director and Pianist for Scottish Opera’s Highlights Tour with Filipa van Eck, Samantha Price, Anthony Flaum and Johnny Herford, directed by Jack Furness

July, Oct 2012

Cruises of the Main & Rhine and Seville with Opera Interludes/London Festival Opera

Jan-Feb 2009

Music Director and Pianist for Scottish Opera’s Essential Scottish Opera Tour with Joanne Boag, Chloe de Backer, Joshua Ellicott and Samuel Evans, directed by Ashley Dean

Dec 2008

Repetiteur for Cardiff International Academy of Voice Masterclass with Kiri Te Kanawa

November 21 and 22, 2008

Music Director and Accompanist for Musical Theatre Production with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

September 21, 2008

An Afternoon of Opera and Song – A Musical Matinee with Helen Massey at the Royal International Pavilion in Llangollen

July 2008

Series of concerts with soprano Elisabeth Meister. Performances in Gregynog and opera gala for the Royal Dublin Society (Wexford Opera Festival)

June 2008

Cardiff International Academy of Voice collaboration with Opera Fringe, Northern Ireland - performance of Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle with Massimiliano Murrali and Sharon Richards and several concerts and masterclasses with Dennis O'Neill

May 10 - 11, 2008

A Tribute to Mario Lanza and Howard Keel with Dewi Wyn and Owen Webb in Kilmarnock and Langholm, Scotland

April 4 - 19, 2008

Cardiff International Academy of Voice collaboration with Opera Barga, Italy - performances of La Boheme (Act III and IV), Il Signor Bruschino and various concerts. One evening, during a political rally, accompanied Dennis O'Neill in Nessun Dorma

April - May, 2008

Charity Concerts throughout Wales - including Llandaff Cathedral, Order of St. John Priory and the Senedd in Cardiff Bay

Mar 2008

A Feast of Song from Wales- set of concerts in Ireland (Kilkenny, Tipperary and Waterford) with Ros Evans, Alison Dunne, Carlos Osuna and Owen Webb

Mar. 19 - 21, 2006

Three Welsh Tenor Concert for Cantabile Artists Agency (singers: Dewi Wyn, Huw Llywelyn and Adriano Graziani)

Dec. 2005

Royal College of Music, London SOIREE D'OR Fundraising Concert in the Britten Theatre with Pumeza Matshikiza, Siphiwo Ntshebe & Vuyani Mlinde

April 25, 2005

‘American Connection’ concert of American songs and standards - Recital Hall

April 21, 2005

Concert of Music and Poetry for the John Ackroyd Music Scholarship - Britten Theatre

April 12, 2005

Opera Scenes in Concert - RCM Concert Hall

Mar. 2, 2005

South African Student Recital at the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa

CHORAL (AS A SINGER)

Oct. 2005

Royal College of Music Chorus: Bruckner Te Deum with Bernard Haitink - Chorus Master: Terry Edwards

Oct. 2004

Royal College of Music Chorus: Mahler Symphony No. 2 with Bernard Haitink - Chorus Master: Terry Edwards

Nov. 2003

Royal College of Music Chorus: Concert of the Music of Brahms

June 2003

LaGuardia High School: Semi-Annual Chorus and Orchestra Concert

Mozart’s Requiem Performance at Alice Tully Hall

Apr. 2003

Hugh Masekela & Friends Performance at Carnegie Hall

Mar. 2003

Orchestra of St. Lukes: Education Program Concerts

North Star Choral Festival: Concert at Alice Tully Hall

Jan. 2003

LaGuardia High School: Winter Chorus and Orchestra Concert

Dec. 2002

Sebastian Chamber Players Concert

Nov. 2002

A Judy Collins Christmas: Concert in Carnegie Hall

Sept. 2002

Lighting of the Eternal Flame: Ceremony in Battery Park

NYC Vigil for Peaceful Tomorrows Concert

TRAINING

• Repetiteur at National Opera Studio, London

• Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Repetiteur Fellow)

• Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Class of 2010 – MMus in Opera Repetiteur with Distinction)

• Royal College of Music, London (Class of 2007: BMus(Hons) in Piano Performance)

• Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (FAME school), Class of 2003

• Daniel Hale Williams Middle School of the Arts

AWARDS

1. •Andrew LLoyd Webber Foundation Grant for Repetiteurs (2015)
   

2. •The Leonard Hancock Memorial Trust Bursary (2012)
   

• Amadeus Fortepiano Prize (2006)

• Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School: Julius Grossman Conducting Award (2003)

• Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School: Scholarship Endowment (2003)

• Dr. Randolph Goodman Award in Vocal Music (2003)

• ARISTA (National Honor Society) (1999 – 2003)

• LaGuardia High School Faculty Award – Outstanding Service to the School (2003)

• LaGuardia High School Advanced Placement Music Theory Award (2003)

• LaGuardia High School Opera Workshop Excellence Award (2003)

• LaGuardia High School Music Honor Society Award (2001 – 2003)

• The Richard Wilder Band Award (1999)

• The International Library of Poetry: Editor’s Choice Award (1999)