Recordings

 

Noel, Chrismas CD, Produced by Jerry Douglas Geist and Jono Manson

            Nominated, New Mexico Music Awards

 

Motion Picture and Television Experience (Music)

 

Music Producer, “The Long March” Documentary, PBS Television

Music Composer, “33 & Me” Documentary Series, Stephanie Gardner, producer

Music Composer, “Irish in Albuquerque” Web Series, Denny Shoopman, producer

Music Composer, “Next of Kin” Short, Harry Musselwhite, producer

Music Composer, “Der Greis” Short, Harry Musselwhite, producer

 

Awards

 

Winner, New Mexico Music Awards, Best Jazz Recording (with Kenyon Carter)

            “Circus March, Mvt. 3”

Special Award, The Winter Shorts Film Festival, Best Musical Arrangement, “Der Greis”

Rome Arts Champion Award, The Rome Area Council for the Arts

Rome International Film Festival, Special Award, “The Sylvia”

Voice of Berry Award, Berry College

Georgia Author of the Year, Essay Category, Finalist (Second Place)

 

 

Operatic Experience

 

Asheville Opera

Mozart                                    Die Zauberflote                                   Sarastro

 

Augusta Opera

Bizet                                        Carmen                                               Zuniga

Gilbert/Sullivan                       H.M.S. Pinafore                                 Dick Deadeye

Smetana                                  The Bartered Bride                             Micha

 

Capitol City Opera

Mozart                                     Die Zauberflote                                  Sarastro

 

Chattanooga Opera

Mozart                                      Die Zauberflote                                 Sarastro

Floyd                                        Susannah                                           Elder Ott

Gilbert/Sullivan                       The Mikado                                       The Mikado

Gilbert/Sullivan                       Pirates of Penzance                           Police Sargent

Puccini                                    Tosca                                                  The Sacristan

Bizet                                        Carmen                                              Zuniga

Verdi                                       Masked Ball                                       Tom

Verdi                                       La Traviata                                         Dr. Grenvil

Verdi                                       Rigoletto                                            Monterone

 

 

Hilton Head Opera

Verdi                                       Rigoletto                                            Sparafucile

 

The Marc Blitztein Opera

Blitztein                                  Idiots First (Premier)                         Clem

 

Opera Southwest

Debussy                                   Pelleas et Melisandre                       The Physician

 

Santa Fe Opera (Apprentice Artist) 

Verdi                                       La Traviata                                        The Messenger

 

The Southeastern Savoyards

Gilbert/Sullivan                       The Mikado                                     The Mikado

 

Musical Theatre Experience

 

St. Louis Muny Opera

Adler                                       Damn Yankees                                 Commissioner

Rogers/Hammerstein Oklahoma (cover)                                         Jud

 

Kansas City Starlight Theatre

Adler                                       Damn Yankees                                Commissioner

Rogers/Hammerstein Oklahoma (cover)                                        Jud

 

Conducting

 

Assistant Conductor, Director of Symphonic Chorus, The Chattanooga Symphony

Assistant Conductor, Director of Symphonic Chorus, The Rome Symphony

Conductor, The Rio Grande Singers, Los Lunas, New Mexico

Director of Choral Activities, Berry College, Rome, Georgia

Director of Choral Activities, Truett-McConnell College, Cleveland, Georgia

 

Concert

 

Carnegie Hall, Guitar Soloist, NY Premier “Come Away to the Skies” Oratorio

Carnegie Hall, Berry College Chamber Choir, conductor

The Virtuosi of London (four seasons) Bass soloist

Wells Cathedral Summer Festival (five seasons) Bass Soloist

The Rome Symphony Orchestra, Bass soloist

Chattanooga Symphony, Bass Soloist, Narrator

Solo Recital, St. James’s at Piccadilly London (two seasons)

Solo Recital, The Holborne Museum, Bath, UK

New York Russian Choral Festival, Bass Soloist

 

Education

 

Indiana University, Master in Music

University of Georgia, Bachelor of Music Education

Lifelong student of the late Margaret Harshaw, Metropolitan Opera

Coaching with Ted Taylor, Kathy Olsen, Benton Hess, Stephen Dubberly, John Wustman, Kristin Ditlow