PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS (1985–2007)

 

2007    

 

Bach & Handel: Cantatas (Tenor Soloist: New Year’s Eve Gala) Ars Lyrica Houston

Matthew Dirst, conductor, Houston, TX                 

                                                                       

Monteverdi: Orfeo (Role: Apollo) Wintergreen Music Festival, Wintergreen, VA

 

Francoeur: Zélindor, Roi des Sylphes (Role: Zulim) Opera Lafayette @ Hillwood Estate, Washington, DC Ryan Brown, conductor

 

Haydn: Die Schöpfung (Tenor Soloist) Handel Choir of Baltimore: Melinda O’Neal, conductor Baltimore, MD

 

Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Tenor Soloist) Maryland Sinfonietta,

Maurice Boyer, conductor, College Park, MD          

 

Handel: Acis + Galatea (Role: Damon) National Tour with American Opera Theater,

Timothy Nelson, director                                     

                                                                       

Lully: Armide (Role: Le Chevaier danois) Lincoln Center (New York, NY) and Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) Opera Lafayette: Ryan Brown, conductor

 

2006    

 

Handel: Messiah (Carnegie Hall Debut) with Masterwork Chorale: Andrew Megill, conductor

 

Carbon Copy Building (Bang On a Can) Role: Philip Emetine at Royal Court Hall, Liverpool, UK

                                   

In Recital at National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC         

 

Idomeneo by W.A. Mozart (Role: Arbace) Opera Lafayette: Ryan Brown, conductor,

Washington, DC

 

Handel: Acis and Galatea (Role: Acis with Elizabeth Futral as Galatea) Music Angelica Baroque: Martin Haselboeck, conductor, Los Angeles, CA    

 

2005    

 

St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach: Tenor soloist with Andrew Parrott and New York Collegium in a historic one-voice-per part performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

 

Saint John Passion by J.S. Bach (tenor soloist) Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC

 

B-minor Mass by J.S. Bach (tenor soloist) Masterwork Chorus, Madison, NJ

 

Easter & Ascension Oratorios by J.S. Bach (tenor soloist) Les Violons du Roy, Montreal, Quebec, Bernard Labadie, conductor

 

Acis and Galatea by G.F. Handel (Role: Acis) NYSEMA, Ithaca, NY

 

Oedipe à Colone by Antonio Sacchini (Role: Thésee) Violins of Lafayette, Washington, DC

 

Acis et Galatée by Jean-Baptiste Lully (Roles: Apollon & Téleme) Opera Lafayette, Washington, DC

 

2004    

 

The Art of the Haute-Contre, (Lecture recital) Gildenhorn Recital Hall, College Park, MD

 

Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini (Role: Almaviva) Maryland Opera Studio, College Park, MD

 

2002    

 

Messiah (tenor soloist) with Desert Chorale, Tom Hall, conductor

 

Arjuna’s Dilemma (Role: Arjuna) by Douglas J. Cuomo: (workshop)

 

2001    

 

Satyagraha by Philip Glass: Chosen by Philip Glass to perform the role of Gandhi in a new production of his opera Satyagraha at Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Austria (2001)

 

In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass (Role: The Visitor) Classic Stage Company, NYC, Joanne Akalaitis (director) Alan Johnson (conductor)

 

Te deum by Campra (tenor soloist) Lameque International Baroque Festival, Hervé Niquet, conductor

 

San Francisco Songs  (1998-2000) Gordon Beeferman (words by Jane Barnes ) 

Premiered by Tony Boutté, tenor, and Gordon Beeferman, piano, at Greenwich House Music School, March 10, 2001

 

2000    

 

Motets of Danielis with Les Talens Lyriques at Versailles (France), Christophe Rousset, conductor

 

Acis and Galatea by Handel (Role: Corydon) with Les Arts Florissant, William Christie, conductor, Salzburg (Austria)

 

Pygmalion by Rameau (Role: Pygmalion) Concert Royal in Mexico City, Mexico, James Richman, conductor

 

1999    

 

Motet III: Hunc igitur terrorem by Betsy Jolas (world premier) with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at Cité de la Musique in Paris

 

Lionheart: Two major tours with Lionheart, including music of Ockeghem with Anonymous4

 

World Premier Carbon Copy Building (Bang on a Can) (Role: Philip Emetine) Settembre Festival, Turino, Italy

 

Find my way home (with John Kelly & Co.), Seattle, Miami, New York.

 

Walzer aus Wien Johann Strauss (arranged Erich Korngold) Bard Music Festival Leon Botstein

 

1998    

 

World Premier Chaos by Michael Gordon (Role: Dr. Aguabone) The Kitchen, New York City

 

L’Infedeltà delusa by Haydn (Role: Nencio) Bard Festival, Leon Botstein, conductor

 

Naked Revolution by David Soldier at The Kitchen

 

L'Infedelta Delusa by Haydn with Leon Botstein and Bard Music Festival 

 

1997    

 

Bach: Magnificat (Tenor Soloist) Vespers at Holy Trinity, New York, NY, Richard Erickson, conductor

 

1996    

 

Eloquent Gestures: a chamber opera (co-written with Dina Emerson) exploring the relationship between D.W. Griffith & Lillian Gish HERE Center for the Arts, New York, NY

 

1995    

 

Les arts florissants (Charpentier) Concert Royal, Florence Gould Hall, New York, NY

 

1994    

 

Beautiful People: A musical search for truth, employing songs of Kurt Weill, Jacques Brel, and Melanie. HERE Center for the Arts, New York City, Mark Owen, director

 

1990    

 

Santa Fe Apprentice Artist

 

Handel's Messiah Portland Baroque Orchestra

 

Saint John Passion by J.S. Bach (tenor soloist) w/ Concert Royal, St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, NYC

 

1989    

 

Tenor Soloist with Ensemble for Early Music: Alice Tully Hall

 

Vespers of 1610 by Monteverdi (tenor soloist) Portland Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman, conductor

 

Mario and the Magician by Stephen Oliver (North American premier) at Skylight Opera Theater in Milwaukee, Francesca Zemballo, director

 

Henry Purcell's "King Arthur," Concert Royal, Williamsburg, VA, James Richman, conductor

 

Don Giovanni by Mozart (Role: Don Ottavio) Aldeburgh Festival, UK, Stuart Bedford, conductor

 

Messiah by G.F. Handel (tenor soloist) Concert Royal and the Men & Boys of St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, NYC, Gerre Hancock, conductor

 

1988    

 

Monteverdi Cycle: Performed the roles of Orfeo (Orfeo) and Telemaco (Il Ritorno D’Ulisse) in the internationally acclaimed Monteverdi Cycle at Skylight Opera Theater in Milwaukee

 

Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (Role: Albert) Skylight Opera Theater, Milwaukee, Stephen Wadsworth, director

 

Tenor soloist in “Mobile Opera presents BATACLAN” by Gilbert & Sullivan

 

L’Enfance du Christ by Berlioz (Tenor Soloist) performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, UK with Stuart Bedford, conductor

 

1987

 

Lake George Apprentice Artist

 

1986     

 

Santa Fe Opera Die Zauberflöte by Mozart (1st armed man)

 

Santa Fe Opera L'incoronazione di Poppea by G.F. Handel (Lucano cover) 

 

1985     

 

Pops Concert with Renee Fleming (tenor soloist) New Haven Symphony, Murray Sidlin, conductor

 

Semele by G.F. Handel (Role: Apollo) Aspen Music Festival, John Nelson, conductor

 

Messiah by G.F. Handel (tenor soloist) New Haven Symphony, Murray Sidlin, conductor