Next Performances
My next performances will be singing Bellini’s La sonnambula with the West Bay Opera chorus. This is a huge chorus opera, where we sing in all but one of the numbers. José Luis Moscovich will conduct and direct. Performances are February 14, 16, 22 and 23 at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto, California. The Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:00 pm and the Sunday performances at 2:00 pm. Tickets are available online or at the box office.
Ensembles
My most frequent performances are now with the West Bay Opera chorus and Voices of Silicon Valley. Recently I have also sung with the Stanford Symphonic Chorus and Musikiwest. In the past, I have sung with:
- San Francisco Symphony Chorus
- Lyric Theatre of San Jose
- South Bay Musical Theatre
- Redwood Symphony
- Palo Alto Chamber Chorale
- 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
- 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