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Performance Experience
New York
Harlem Productions—Amsterdam, Brussels, 2008
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Maria
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Porgy and Bess
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Gershwin
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Des Moines Metro Opera, 2008
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Ulrica
(understudy)
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Un Ballo in
mascara
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Verdi
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Addie
(understudy)
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Regina
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Blitzstein
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Fricka
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Das Rheingold
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Wagner
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Filippyevna
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Eugene Onegin
(Russian)
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Tchaikovsky
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Kabanicha
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Kata Kabanova
(English)
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Janacek
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Tulsa Opera, 2007
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Maria
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Porgy and Bess
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Gershwin
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Opera -
Lyric Opera of Chicago
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Negro Woman
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Street Scene
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Kurt
Weill
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2001
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Old Woman
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View from a Bridge
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William
Bolcom
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1999
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Nurse
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Orpheus Descending
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Bruce Saylor
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1995
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Nurse
(understudy)
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Boris Godunov
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Mussorgsky
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1995
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Schwertleite
(understudy)
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Die Walküre
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Wagner
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1994
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Opera -
Memphis State University
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Mother
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
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Menotti
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Madame Flora
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The Medium
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Menotti
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Mamma Lucia
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Cavalleria
Rusticana
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Mascagni
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Other Roles Learned
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Madelon
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Andrea Chenier
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Giordano
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The Mother
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The Consul
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Menotti
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La Cieca
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La Gioconda
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Ponchielli
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La Zia Principessa
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Suor Angelica
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Puccini
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Gaea
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Daphne
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Strauss
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Adzucena
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Il trovatore
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Verdi
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Erda
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Das Rheingold
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Wagner
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Erda
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Siegfried
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Wagner
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Waltraute
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Gotterdammerung
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Wagner
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First Norn
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Gotterdammerung
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Wagner
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Orchestral Concerts
Alexander Nevsky,
(Tchaikovsky), Chicago Sinfonietta, November, 2006
Pops
Concert,
Memphis Symphony Orchestra, 1993
Solo,
Oratorio and Choral
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Messiah
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Monumental Baptist Church
(Chicago, IL), 2006
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Recital
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Opera Memphis and
The
Negro Spiritual
Scholarship Foundation
(Memphis, TN),
2006
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Recital
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Fisk University Arts Festival (Nashville, TN),
2006
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Concert
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Yachats Music Festival,
Four Seasons Concerts (Yachats, Oregon), 2003—2006
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Recital
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Four Seasons Concerts Distinguished
Artists Series, 2006
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Recital
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Dillard University (New Orleans, LA),
2005
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Concert
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W. Hazaiah Memorial Concert,
Four Seasons Concerts (San Francisco, CA), 2004
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Concert
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Negro
Spiritual Scholarship Foundation (Orlando, FL),
2004
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Messiah
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St.
Mark Methodist Church
(Chicago), 2004
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Messiah
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Dillard University,
2002 – 2004
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Recital
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Dillard University, 2004
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Singing Voiceover
“Marian Anderson” Anthem Voiceover– “Soul of The
Game”
(HBO Productions, Music Director: Terrance Blanchard), 1996
Education and Instruction
Des Moines Metro
Opera James Collier Apprentice Artist
Program,
2008
Lyric Opera Center for American Artist Young Artist Program (Apprentice),
1993-1995
Memphis State University - Master of Music, Vocal
Performance
(Incomplete)
Fisk University
(Nashville, TN) -
Bachelors of Musical Arts, 1987
Voice Instruction
Judith Haddon (current); Ruth Falcon, Brian Montgomery, Nicholas
DiVirgilio,
Margaret Harshaw, Pamela Gaston, Valija Bumbulis
Awards
The 20th Altamura/Caruso International Voice Competition
Study Grants
(2008) - Finalist
National Opera Association - Third Prize, Artists
Division, 2006
Classical Singer Magazine – Certified Classical
Singer, 2005-2006
Classical Singer Magazine - Third Prize, Emerging
Artists Division, 2005
New York Oratorio Society, Semi Finalist, 2005
Metropolitan Opera Auditions -
Regional Finalist
(Chicago), 1998
Metropolitan Opera Auditions -
Regional Finalist
(Memphis), 1992
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