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ORCHESTRAL
AND STAGE APPEARANCES
Slovak Radio Orchestra (Bratislava)
- Robert Black,
conductor: "Three Songs of Pablo Neruda" by Thomas McKinley Seattle
Symphony - Gerard
Schwartz, conductor: "Dancer in a Garden" by Elain Erickson Brooklyn
Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukas Foss -
conductor: "Chanson Dada" by James Sellars Portland,
Maine Symphony Orchestra -
Toshiyuki Shimada, conductor: "Ancient Voices of Children"
by George Crumb New York City Symphony
- David Eaton, conductor: "Folksongs" by Luciano
Berio Arad Philharmonic (Romania) -
"Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" by Gustav Mahler
Houston Grand Opera -
Directed by Wesley Balk: "The Wanderer" (tide role) Houston
Ballet - Emmano
Florio, conductor: "The Cruel Garden" by Carlos Miranda (after Federico
Garcia Lorca)
Plainfield, New Jersey Symphony
- Edward Murray,
conductor: "Sheherazade" by Maurice Ravel and songs from "Des Knaben
Wunderhom" by Gustav Mahler New York Philharmonic Orchestra
- Leon Barzin,
conductor. Haydn Piano ConcertoIn D Major. (Piano soloist, age 10)
SOLO APPEARANCES
Milanopoesia Festival (Italy), St. Cyprien International
Festival of the Arts (France), the Ijsbreker and Stedelijk Museum
(Amsterdam), Haus der Geschichte (Bonn), Centro de Bellas Artes (Puerto
Rico), Contemporary Arts Museum (Philadelphia), Contemporary Arts Museum
(Houston), Jerusalem Music Centre, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Museum,
University of Fairbanks (Alaska), North American New Music Festival
(Buffalo, N.Y.), Merkin Hall (N.Y.), Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble,
Brandeis-Bardin Institute (Los Angeles), Bowery Ensemble and Alliance for
American Song (New York)
DUET RECITALS
With classical guitarist Sharon Isbin: The Frick
Collection and the 92nd Street Y (New York), Vermont Mozart Festival,
Grand Teton Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival Tours: Greece, Romania,
Korea.
RECORDINGS
MODE RECORDS: "Sequenza III"
- Luciano Berio, "Ryoanji"
- John Cage, "The
Windwife" - Yvar
Mikhashoff; AULOS SCHALLPLATTEN: "Ballad of Expected Death in Cairo"
- Tsippi
Fleischer; LEONARDA RECORDS: "Composers of the Holocaust"; MASTER
MUSICIANS COLLECTIVE: "Three Songs of Pablo Neruda"- William Thomas
McKinley, "Dancer in a Garden" -
Elaine Erickson, "Voices in the Still"
- Michael C. Viens; OPUS
ONE RECORDS: "Three Spanish Songs", "Of Honey and Vinegar"
- belle Wallach;
LRP RECORDS: "A Poet to his Beloved" -
Ronald Senator; GLOBAL VILLAGE MUSIC: "ALHAMBRA
performs Judeo-Spanish Songs", "ALHAMBRA; The Art of Judeo-Spanish Song";
AIJLOSSCHALLPLATTEN / KOCH: "ALHAMBRA: The Joy of Judeo-Spanish Song";
SPECTRUM RECORDS: "Judeo-Spanish Romanceros
- THE BROKEN CONSORT";
PRESTIGE/INTERNATIONAL RECORDS: "Folksongs Far and Near", "The Gardners:
International Folk Songs"
ALHAMBRA APPEARANCES
Purcell Room, Almeida Theatre (London), U.K. Tour;
Istanbul; Vilnius, Lithuania; Quebec, Canada; Bogota, Colombia; San Juan,
Puerto Rico; Cordoba, Spain; Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Jewish
Museum (New York), Skirball Museum (Los Angeles). Tours throughout the
U.S.
EDUCATION, AWARDS AND HONORS
Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice and Music
Literature (1980): Eastman School of Music, student of Jan DeGaetani.
Fulbright grant (1997); National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist
grant (1992 - 1993); Recording grant (Alhambra)
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Maurice Amado Foundation (1993); First prize: Lind
Solo Song Award for composition "Go Away Tango" (1989); Finalist
(Alhambra): Concert Artists Guild Competition (1986); International
Who’sWho in Music (1989)
MASTER CLASSES
Jerusalem Music Centre; Rubin Academy of Music (Tel Aviv
University); Levinsk Institute (Tel Aviv); The University of Chicago; The
University of California (San Diego); Rice University (Houston); State
University of New York (Buffalo & Geneseo); Manhattan School of Music;
Mannes College of Music; University of the Arts (Philadelphia); University
of Massachusetts (Amherst); De Paul University (Chicago); University of
Illinois; University of Texas (Austin); Southwest Texas State University.
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