Soiree Recital, originally uploaded by Behold How Free.
I’m enjoying spending this week and weekend in Walla Walla, Washington performing with the Walla Walla Symphony. I’m performing with frequent collaborator conductor Yaakov Bergman and great soloists and new friends Beth Madsen Bradford, Charles Robert Stephens, and Sarah Parnicky. We performed a recital of opera [...]

I’m so excited to perform in the next Playback Theater public show tomorrow night.  More info here.
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A year ago, I spent an amazing two weeks with tour-de-force choir Conspirare performing and recording a collection of African-American Spirituals. It was an incredible journey delving into this powerful and meaningful music.  Without a doubt, each of us that sang these concerts and recordings left changed.  We all experienced an extraordinary connection while making [...]

Greece, 2011, a set on Flickr.

I’m home from an amazing, beautiful 10 day trip to Greece with Cappella Romana. Here are all of my pictures from the trip.

The coast of Rhodes near Lindos, originally uploaded by Behold How Free.

Oh. my. God. Greece is beautiful!, originally uploaded by Behold How Free.

I’m a couple days now into my tour of Greece with Cappella Romana. It is so beautiful here! We spent the first couple of days recovering from jetlag and rehearsing on Rhodes, in a cute little town called Lindos.
Now we are on Patmos. [...]

Downtown Harrisonburg, originally uploaded by Behold How Free.

I haven’t had the chance to share the full extent of my summer travels on my blog yet, but as usual, this summer is bringing me to lots of exciting places. My friend Kyle calls it “musical tourism” when a gig gives us the opportunity to visit places [...]

Hello all! In case you hadn’t figured it out yet, I’m in Finland right now! I am so happy to be here in Turku, Finland to perform Bach’s St. John Passion with Kuninkaantien Muusikot (Musicians of the King’s Road). Rehearsals have gone very well so far and we have our first performance tonight.
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Spring, a set on Flickr.

Spring has arrived in Portland! I’m loving the first blossoms of the season.

Now that I’m all done with Portland Opera To Go, I’m sinking my teeth into some new projects.  I’m back teaching my many wonderful voice students.  And I’m doing a couple projects with Cappella Romana for the next two weeks.
Tomorrow, a small group of singers (12) will catch a plane to San Francisco.  We’ll get [...]