Music

I have had the pleasure of singing with a number of fine ensembles over the years, first as a soprano, then as an alto, and ever since as a first tenor. Groups have included:

• Berkeley Boys Chorus
• San Francisco Boys Chorus
• Albany High School Vocal Ensemble
• Yale Russian Chorus
• Cantare Con Vivo, Oakland
• Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus
• Lowell House Opera, Harvard
• Cathedral Church of St. Luke (Orlando), Cathedral Choir
• "A Christmas Carol" Radio Drama Chorale, The Disney Institute
• Washington National Cathedral, Cathedral Choral Society
• Suspicious Cheese Lords
• St Paul's Church (K Street, Washington, DC), Parish Choir

 

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Repertoire

The works I have performed include:

• Asola, Missa pro defunctis
• Bach, Kantate Nr. 34, O ewiges Feuer; Jesu Meine Freude
• Beethoven, Missa solemnis; 9th Symphony
• Berlioz, Te Deum; Requiem
• Bernstein, Chichester Psalms (T; Sop. solo)
• Brahms, Requiem
• Britten, Ceremony of Carols, St. Nicholas, Te Deum

• Byrd Missae a 3, a 4, a 5
• Chants: Great Litany of Lent; Pange, lingua; Veni creator Spiritus; Dies irae; etc.
• Daniel-Lesur, Messe du jubilé
• Darke, Communion Service in E, “Collegium Regale”
• Genet, Missa “Se mieulx ne vient”; Lamentations
• Harris, Communion Service in F
• Händel, Messiah
• Josquin, Missa Mater patris
• Langlais, Messe solennelle
• Malcolm, Missa ad praesepe
• Martin, In Terra Pax — Click here for an audio sample from the Cathedral Choral Society website
• Mendelssohn, Elijah
• Mozart, Messe C-moll “Great”; Requiem; Messe C-moll “Coronation”; Missa brevis K.194
• Orthodox Liturgy: Matins for Easter
• Palestrina, Missa brevis; Missa “Æterna Christi munera,” Missa Papae Marcelli
• Pärt, Beatitudes
• Paulus, Mass for a Sacred Space (World Première)
• Puccini, La Bohème (Chorus)
• Rachmaninov, Vespers & All-Night Vigil
• Rheinberger, Messe a 8
• Rutter, Rejoice and Be Merry (World Première)
• Senfl, Missa L'homme armé (U.S. Première); Te Deum (U.S. Première)
• Stanford, Evening Service in C
• Sumsion, Communion Service in F
• Tallis, Lamentations
• Tye, The Mass “Euge Bone”
• Vaughn Williams, Hodie (Boychoir)
• Victoria, Missa “O Magnum mysterium”
• Vierne, Messe Solennelle, Op. 16
• Walton, Belshazzar’s Feast; Coronation Te Deum
• Whitacre, Lux arumque; faith, hope, life, love

Plus more Christmas carols, in more languages (some in more than one language at once), than you can shake a stick at. AND liturgical works in Nahuatl, written for Aztecs who became Catholics.

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Recordings

I can be heard on the following CDs:

Missa L’homme armé: Music of Ludwig Senfl The Suspicious Cheese Lords Available at CDBaby Fanfare review (Google cache; original now subscriber-only)	Mass for a Sacred Place Cathedral Choral Society Available at Arsis	Welcome All Wonders :Christmas at Washington National Cathedral Cathedral Choral Society Available at Gothic	Hymns for the Centuries (Vol. II) Cathedral Choral Society Available at Gothic

 

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Venues

Performations locations have included:

• St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco
• Woolsey Hall, Yale
• Sanders Theatre, Harvard
• “A Prairie Home Companion” (January 1987, nationally broadcast live from St. Paul, Minn.)
• The Cathedral Church of St. Luke
• The Disney Institute
• The Kennedy Center
• Washington National Cathedral
• The Franciscan Monastery, Washington, D.C.
• St. Thomas More Cathedral, Arlington, Va.
• XM Radio, Vox-112, XMLive-200 (recorded live for later national broadcast from Washington, D.C.)

Voice lessons have been far more sporadic than I would have hoped, but I've received very helpful coaching from Dr. Jay White (formerly of Chanticleer), Jon Bruno, and Dr. Mark Bailey, as well as guidance from Dr. Tina Chancey (Hesperus), J. Reilly Lewis (CCS), Mark Dwyer (St Paul’s K Street), Canon Benjamin Lane (St. Luke’s Cathedral, Orlando), Dr. Beverly Taylor (Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus), David Morales (Cantare Con Vivo), Elizabeth Appling (San Francisco Boys Chorus), and Dr. Phil Rolnick (Albany High School).