Next Performances
My next performances will be Voices of Silicon Valley‘s 10th anniversary concerts, “From Gladiator to Genshin Impact.” In addition to highlights from the movie and video game scores, the program includes a premiere from Alexander Frank, Bits Torn from Words by Peter Shin, Friede auf Erden by Arnold Schoenberg, and more. Cyril Deaconoff will conduct.
The performances will be on Saturday, October 19 at 3:00 pm at the Hammer Theatre Center in downtown San Jose, and Sunday, October 27 at 6:00 pm at Tateuchi Hall in Mountain View. Tickets are available online for both the San Jose and Mountain View concerts. The Mountain View concert will be followed by a reception celebrating the 10th anniversary.
After that, I will be returning to the Stanford Symphonic Chorus after a long absence to sing two works with personal connections for me. Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 7 (A Sea Symphony) was written for Interlochen’s 50th season of the National Music Camp, and I attended the premiere with Hanson conducting. Aaron Copland’s Canticle of Freedom was written for the dedication of MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, where I spent many of my student days rehearsing and performing.
This concert is the chorus’s annual collaboration with the Peninsula Symphony. The program also includes orchestral works by Howard Hanson and Jessie Montgomery. Stephen Sano and Mitchell Sardou Klein will conduct.
The performances will be on Saturday, November 23 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, November 24 at 2:30 pm, both at the Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University. Tickets are available online for the Saturday and Sunday concerts.
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