It’s hard to believe that Oregon Bach Festival 2010 is already over!  Just a few picture highlights:

Carrie came to visit Portland this week and we got to go on some great adventures!

Picking blueberries:

Cathedral Park and St. John’s Bridge:

Vista House overlooking the Columbia River Gorge:

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 [...]

Hello!  If you haven’t really figured it out yet, Abby and I are moving to Portland, Oregon!  We’ve been in Portland the past 6 weeks visiting, and this week we are actually moving everything there from Houston.  We are so excited about this next season in a beautiful new city.
If you are interested, you can [...]

Crater Lake - 14, originally uploaded by Behold How Free.
I’ve been posting pictures on Flickr of my summer adventures thus far, including Oregon Bach Festival and a visit to Crater Lake. Click here to see them!

I’m enjoying my time so far here in Eugene for the Oregon Bach Festival.  We just do our two performances of Haydn’s “The Creation” this week.  This was my first time to perform this work, and I have to say - it’s probably not my favorite piece of music.  The opening of the oratorio is [...]

Here’s what’s going on:
1. Singing tonight in “A Celebration of the Blues,” a collaboration of Houston Grand Opera, The Blues Society of Houston, and SugarHill Studios.  I’ve really enjoyed the music and I think it will be a great event.  It’s at 8pm at Grooves.  More info on my performances page or the Facebook event.
2. [...]

I had a chance to have dinner with my friend Bruce last evening in Austin, Texas after playing piano for State Solo and Ensemble Competition at University of Texas.  I was really looking forward to spending some time with Bruce and he suggested in favorite place in Austin, Casa de Luz.  Casa de Luz is [...]

I’m leaving tomorrow morning to drive to New Orleans for the rest of the week and weekend. Opera Vista is presenting Amy Beach’s opera “Cabildo.”  The Cabildo is a real place in New Orleans and this opera is about, so it is fitting that we get to perform the opera in the real-life setting where [...]