He has sung with noted regional companies such as Florida Grand Opera, Opera North, Knoxville Opera, Union Avenue Opera, Skylight Music Theater, Opera Company of NC, Opera Carolina, Central City Opera and Opera on the James. Coming off of a 23/24 season that saw a debut with Lyric Opera of the North as Marcello in La

Damon Gupton, Conductor A native of Detroit, Michigan, actor and conductor Damon Gupton appears in television, film, and on stage. In 2019, he was appointed the first-ever Principal Guest Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops. He has had series regular roles in The Big Door Prize,The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel L. Jackson (both

With a year-and-a-half of isolation from touring during the world-wide pandemic, they dedicated their days and nights towards further musical growth together. The couple workshopped new songs during seventy weekly online concerts from home; Mondays with Mark and Maggie. A group of dedicated viewers watched as they made their musical experiments, some fans tuning in

For the 2023-2024 season he sang in two revival productions taking on the roles of Paris in Gounod’s “Romeo & Juliette” and the GRAMMY® award-winning “Fire Shut Up In My Bones” by Terrence Blanchard as Chester. Credits for the 2022-2023 season include a role and company debut as Valentin in “Faust” with Opera Baltimore and

This season he debuts with Virginia Opera for a role debut in Siegfried (title role).  Last season he returned to Boston for Verdi’s Messa di Requiem with Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra conducted by Federico Cortese and make his role debut in Aida (Radames) with Finger Lakes Opera. Recent performances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Jacksonville Symphony and the University of Florida, Defiant Requiem in Washington, DC,

In the 2023-2024 season, Ms. Bryce-Davis debuted at Santa Fe Opera as Ježibaba in Rusalka in a new production directed by Sir David Pountney and conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya, and at Opera Philadelphia as Lizzie in the world premiere of 10 Days in a Madhouse. Raehann returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Ella in X:

The Boston Globe noted that, in her interpretation of Turandot, Graham’s “timbre and power were thrilling – steely ring from top to bottom – and her path from imperiousness to passion was convincing,” while Opera News described her as “a vocally secure Turandot, her gleaming tones well suited to the ice princess’s misanthropic resolve.” Upcoming

Amid the wide-ranging demands of his repertoire, critics note that Enrico is readily heard: “Bass-baritone Enrico Lagasca summoned nearly as much volume as everyone else onstage put together, and matched that visceral force with vivid phrasing,” wrote Baltimore’s Tim Smith regarding the U.S. premiere of the Jonathan Dove opera The Monster in the Maze by

He will also sing debut Schubert’s Mass No. 5 in A-flat with the São Paulo Symphony and sing a recital with Craig Terry at the Kennedy Center in Washington for Vocal Arts DC. On the stage, Lunga will make a debut at Minnesota Opera returning to the role of Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di

Her extensive portfolio also includes solo appearances at St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, American Classical Orchestra, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Cantata Collective, Riverside Choral Society, Princeton Pro Musica, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Baroque Music Montana, Early Music Access Project, and Emmanuel Music Baltimore, among others — in repertoire spanning from Bach, Handel, and Purcell to Mahler,

In January 2014 she was awarded a Grammy with contemporary octet Roomful of Teeth, for best chamber music/small ensemble performance; in November 2011 she received first prize in the Canticum Gaudium International Early Music Vocal Competition in Poznań, Poland. Estelí can be heard on the Seattle Symphony’s 2017 recording of Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3, on

The Dallas Morning News writes of her performance with Voices of Change of Ursula Mamlok’s Stray Birds: “What made the experience riveting was soprano Dee Donasco’s amazing singing. She negotiated wide leaps with uncanny precision — indeed, artistry — with an enameled tone of real beauty.”  In a very busy 2022/23 season, Dee made her

While in school, Mr. McKinney received the Helen Odom Scholarship, the Music Dean’s Talent Scholarship, and the Chancellor’s Grant for Excellence. Jason was the winner of the 2001 and 2002 Civic Music Association of Milwaukee’s Harold Levin scholarship competition and was awarded the Judges Choice award at the 2001 Metropolitan Opera’s district competition. In 2004

In the 23/24 season, Elliott debuted with the Minnesota Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Pacific Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and New Jersey Symphony. He also performs the world premiere of a new orchestral version of John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria, commissioned for him by a consortium of orchestras including the Orlando Philharmonic and music director Eric

Ushikubo made his orchestral debut at age ten with the Young Musicians Foundation Orchestra in Los Angeles’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 alongside conductor Teddy Abrams. A recipient of the prestigious Davidson Fellow Laureate Award in 2014, Ushikubo was named a Young Steinway Artist and won the 2017 Hilton Head International

She has sung with the LA Chamber Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Charlotte Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Winston-Salem Symphony, and Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Favorite concert works include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Haydn’s Creation, Bach’s St. John Passion, and anything by Mozart or Handel. She collaborates

Following his portrayal of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, under the baton of Jesús López-Cobos at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times  proclaimed “Ramsay brought a passionate intensity to the role that matched the fire of Dessay’s riveting Lucia.” Of his Canadian debut in Verdi’s Requiem with Sir Andrew Davis and the Toronto

In 2023-2024, Ms. Semerdjian returns to Tacoma Opera to make her role debut as the title role in Carmen. On the concert stage, she appears in Verdi’s Requiem with Symphony Tacoma and for the Masterworks Concert Series with Symphoria. In 2022-2023, Ms. Semerdjian sang Ambassador to Space in Derrick Skye’s Song of the Ambassadors at

Hix is a sought-after performer of concert and orchestral works with over 75 oratorio, cantata, and concert roles in his repertoire.  In 2019 he was awarded 3rd Place in the American Prize Competition for Oratorio and Art Song Performance.  Past concert and oratorio solo engagements have included Mendelssohn’s Elijah, J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, B