Opera Roles

Role Opera/Scene (Composer) Company Year
Rosalinda Die Fledermaus/Scenes (J Strauss) CORO! 2009
The Friend Amelia Goes to the Ball (Menotti) Puget Sound Opera 2006
Waltraute Die Walkure/Walkurenritt (Wagner) Kitsap Opera
2004
Third Lady Magic Flute (Mozart) Kitsap Opera
2002
Rosalinda Die Fledermaus/Drinking Trio (J Strauss) VocalArts Northwest
2002
Rosalinda (u/s) Die Fledermaus (J Strauss) Seattle Comic Opera
1997
Janissary Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart) Seattle Comic Opera
1995
Tituba Gallows Hill (North) (World Premiere) Guest Artist, Cornish College
1994

Suggested Roles
Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti); Santuzza, Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni);
Marcellina, Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart); First or Second Lady, Magic Flute (Mozart);
Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (Mozart); Rusalka, Rusalka (Dvorak); Dido, Dido and Aeneas (Purcell);
Laura, La Gioconda (Ponchielli); Princess Eboli, Don Carlo (Verdi); Der Komponist, Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss)

Orchestra/Concert Solos

Work (Composer) Concert Organization Year
Messiah Arias (Handel) Holiday Concert Hildman String Orchestra 2006
Arias (Purcell, Bach) Baroque Concert Hildman String Orchestra 2001
Requiem (Brahms) Spring Concert Northwest Chorale 2001
Six Poems of Mary Oliver (Kearns) Bassoonist Concert Music Center of the Northwest 2000
Spanish Songs (Ovalle, Villa-Lobos) Guitarist Concert Music Center of the Northwest 2000
Arias/Art Songs (Mozart, Dvorak) Three Sopranos Concert Music Center of the Northwest 2000
Arias (Puccini, Gershwin) President's Day Seattle Central Community College 1999
C. Columbus Arias (Offenbach) Summer Cabaret ArtsWest Theatre 1998
Arias (Tchaikovsky, Barber) Benefit Concert Heads Up Gorgeous Theatre 1997

Solo Recitals

Title Venue/Sponsor, City
Year
Selected Arias and Art Songs Plymouth Congregational, Minneapolis
2002
Songs of Love's Extremes Greenwood Art Walk, Seattle
2001
In A Classical Voice Seattle Central Foundation, Seattle
2000
A Taste of Opera Petersburg Lutheran, Petersburg, Alaska
1998
Opera for Alaskans Petersburg Lutheran, Alaska
1997

Ensemble Experience

Work (Composer) Organization (Conductor) Year
Norma (Bellini) Seattle Opera (Edoardo Muller) 2002
Execution of Stepan Razin (Shostakovich) Seattle Symphony Chorale (Gabriel Kaplan) 1999

Teaching Positions

Title Employer Years
Voice Faculty Music Center of the Northwest 1999 - 2007
Adjunct Voice Faculty Seattle Central Community College 2000 - 2007
Adjunct Voice Faculty South Seattle Community College 2000 - 2007
Adjunct Jazz/Pop Voice Faculty Shoreline Community College 2001 - 2007
Adjunct Voice Faculty Bellevue Community College 2002 - 2007
Private Voice Teacher Sole Proprietor 1992 - present

Training

Teachers: Janis Hardy, Erich Parce, Lawrence Weller, Awilda Verdejo, Thomasa Eckert
Coaches: Dean Williamson, Glenda Williams, Hartwig Eichberg, Charles Long, Penny Orloff
Undergraduate: St. Olaf College, Minnesota, B.A.
Intensives: VocalArts Northwest.

Instruments/languages

Piano (14 years), Flute (8 years), Guitar (1 year).
Fluent in German. Functional in Italian.

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