Next Performances
My next performance will be part of the Jonathan Khuner’s Series 20c. – Celebrating Schoenberg recital/lecture series. Voices of Silicon Valley will perform Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden and Dreimal tausend Jahre, conducted by Cyril Deaconoff. Khuner and Deaconoff will also discuss these two very different pieces: the first an early, lushly romantic work, while the second is a late serial piece.
The performance will be Sunday, September 22 at 7:00 pm at the Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street in Berkeley, California. Tickets are $15 for our recital/lecture or $60 for the whole series of five. Senior discounts are available and Hillside Club members can attend for free. Tickets are available online.
Ensembles
My most frequent performances are now with the West Bay Opera chorus and Voices of Silicon Valley. Recently I have also sung with Musikiwest, South Bay Musical Theatre, and Lyric Theatre of San Jose. In the past, I have sung with:
- San Francisco Symphony Chorus
- Palo Alto Chamber Chorale
- Stanford Symphonic Chorus
- Open Opera
- Fremont Opera
- City College of San Francisco Music and Theater Arts Departments
- Symphony San Jose Chorale
- Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Leonard Bernstein‘s Mass)
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto Adult Choir guest singer
- Masterworks Chorale of San Mateo
- Redwood Symphony
- Spectrum Singers
- Sudbury Savoyards
- Tanglewood Festival Chorus
- Arlington-Belmont Chorale and Chamber Chorus
- Longwood Opera
- Living Room Opera
In the past I studied at:
Excerpts
Here I am singing in the tenor section of the Masterworks Chorale in November 1996, conducted by Galen Marshall:
Before I started singing, I was a trumpet player. I played in just about every musical group at MIT, including the Symphony Orchestra, Festival Jazz Ensemble, and Concert Band. The MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, directed by Herb Pomeroy, was one of the first three collegiate bands from the USA to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Here are two excerpts from our appearance at the 1981 Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival:
- T.S.T.S. by Tom Garvin
- Rhythm-a-ning by Thelonious Monk, arranged by Jeff Friedman
In Memory of Herb Pomeroy, 1930 – 2007, father of jazz at MIT