I’m back in Eugene for the 2010 Oregon Bach Festival.  First concert up is the powerful Verdi Requiem. We’ll perform it in Eugene on Friday and then Portland on Sunday.
In the next 3 weeks, we’ll also be doing performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s B Minor Mass, the Brahms Liebeslieder, and also other concerts with pieces [...]

A video was posted online of my performances with Hope Stone Dance from last year. It was such an honor to perform with this totally engaging and unique company of artists. In this video, I am singing in the pit with Ana Trevino-Godfrey. We are, essentially, providing support to the incomparable violinist [...]

I just spent another really inspiring, engaging week in Austin with the incomparable Conspirare.  This concert series included two major works: the Victoria Requiem (music of the Renaissance) and recent work The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang, which received a Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
Everything was lovely and special, as is always the case [...]

:: This is a post I wrote for the Portland Opera blog about my experience so far in the Portland Opera To Go (POGO) tour.  You can see the original post here. ::
Music affects each person in a different way. It has the ability to comfort, to enliven, to console, and to energize. There is [...]

I’ve just enjoyed a wonderful week of singing in Austin with Conspirare.  It was a wonderful evening of mostly German music, including the monolith Deutsche Motette by Richard Strauss.  You can see a couple of the reviews here.
There are so many things I love about singing with Conspirare, and one of the my favorites is [...]

Every Man Heart Lay Down opens tomorrow night for the first of two performances.  This is the third annual production of this musical, with new cast members and new revisions to the script.
Every Man Heart Lay Down is a Christmas musical set in Africa, based on a children’s book by Lorenz Graham.  This production [...]

You are invited to see HGO “Opera to Go!” perform tomorrow (Saturday, November 21) at Houston’s Discovery Green Park.
We are performing as part of the Flavors Festival, an international food festival, including cooking demonstrations and lots of great food.
10:00am Hansel and Gretel performance
This will also include (as I understand) an opportunity to make gingerbread houses!
1:00pm [...]

I got to Swell Season and The Frames live last night.  I loved it!  So charming and fun!  (Is case you don’t realize, these are the two stars of the movie “Once.”)  Their music is joyful and diverse.  They invited us to sing along at lots of different points in the evening.  They even invited [...]

I posted some new pictures of Hansel and Gretel with “Opera to Go!” taken by Eric Melear.  Click here to see them.