Student Successes (Highlights)

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Current and former students have performance credits at companies including:

  • The Metropolitan Opera
  • Lyric Opera of Chicago
  • Houston Grand Opera
  • Atlanta Opera
  • Santa Fe Opera
  • Cincinnati Opera
  • New York Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Fargo-Moorhead Opera
  • Skylight Opera Theatre
  • New Amsterdam Opera
  • Shreveport Opera
  • Pensacola Opera
  • Kunming Opera (China)
  • Florentine Opera
  • Opera Creole
  • Kingwood Opera
  • ARE Opera
  • NBC’s live broadcast (2018) of Jesus Christ Superstar 
  • Orlando Repertory Theatre
  • Henry Purcell Society of Boston
  • Walt Disney World
  • Houston Bach Society
  • Wagonwheel Playhouse
  • Atlanta Lyric Theatre
  • The Prizery Summer Theatre
  • National Symphony Orchestra
  • Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra

At training programs and festivals including:

  • Wolf Trap Opera
  • Ravinia Music Festival
  • Santa Fe Opera
  • Tanglewood Music Festival
  • Aspen Music Festival
  • Houston Grand Opera Studio
  • Des Moines Metro Opera
  • Berlin Opera Academy
  • Vienna Summer Music Festival
  • Boston Early Music Festival
  • Opera in the Ozarks
  • Brevard Music Festival
  • Amalfi Coast Festival, Italy
  • Amherst Early Music Festival
  • Seagle Music Colony
  • Songfest
  • Franco-American Vocal Academy
  • Orvieto Musica, Italy
  • Red River Lyric Opera
  • Opera Neo
  • Sieur de Luth Opera Training Program
  • American Institute of Musical Study (AIMS) Graz, Austria
  • GLOW Lyric Theatre
  • Miami Music Festival

Competition wins:

  • The Metropolitan National Council Auditions: national grand finals winner, regional winner, multiple district wins
  • Encouragement Awards: Metropolitan National Council Auditions – KY District, GA District
  • Music Teachers National Association: Young Artist Competition – national winner, regional winner, and chapter level winner
  • Chicago Bel Canto Foundation
  • Orpheo Music Competition
  • Grandquist Music Festival
  • St. Petersburg Opera Guild
  • National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Artist Award (NATSAA)
  • National Association of Teachers of Singing: National Finalists, regional winners in categories from freshmen to advanced graduate in classical and musical theatre styles
  • Lexington Bach Competition: National Finalist
  • Orpheus National Vocal Competition: National Finalists
  • Stephen Foster Competition

Teaching Positions & Academic Posts:

  • Sam Houston State University
  • Andrew College
  • University of Hawaii
  • North End Music and Performing Arts Center – Boston, MA