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EDUCATION SUMMER PROGRAMS
University of Toronto Aspen Music Festival
Masters Level Opera Diploma Opera Theater Program 
1995 - 1996  Fellowship, summer 1997


McGill University (Montreal)  Tanglewod Music Center
Bachelor of Music - Voice Major  Peter Grimes 50th anniversary production, cond: Seiji Ozawa
1990 - 1995  Fellowship, summer 1996


Concordia University (Montreal)  Ravinia Festival (Chicago)
B.A. - Economics Steans Institute Young Artists Program
1987 - 1990 Fellowship, summer 1993
   
Vanier CEGEP (Ville St Laurent)  
D.E.C. in Commerce  
1985 - 1987  
   
YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAMS  
Vancouver Opera Company   
Member of Young Artists Ensemble  
1996 - 1998


Opéra de Montréal
Member of Young Artists Ensemble
1992 - 1993
 
AWARDS  
Metropolitan Opera National Council Winner - Western Canada District (Vancouver, BC)
Regional Finalist (Seattle, WA) - Nov 1996
Martha Lou Henley Foundation Grant Recipient 1997, 1999, 2004
Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant Recipient - Summer 1999
Belvedere International Opera Competition Finalist - August 1999 (Vienna, Austria)
Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation
For Young Canadian Opera Singers
Grant recipient 2001
Conseil des Arts du Québec Professional development grant - July 2006
   


PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

YEAR COMPOSER WORK ROLE LOCATION & Conductor
2012 Shostakovich Symphony #13 Bass soloist McGill Symphony Orchestra - Alexis Hauser
  Verdi Rigoletto Sparafucile & Monterone Hamilton Opera - David Speers
  7th season Green Mountain Opera Festival
La Bohème & Don Pasquale
Artistic Director Vermont, USA
  Beethoven 9th Symphony Bass soloist Hamilton Philharmonic - James Sommerville
  Verdi Falstaff Pistola Opéra de Québec - Giuseppe Grazioli
  Verdi Il Trovatore Ferrando Hamilton Opera - David Speers
2011 Strauss Salome Erster Soldat Opéra de Montréal - Yannick Nézet-Séguin
  Verdi Requiem Bass Soloist Victoria Symphony Orchestra - Tania Miller
  6th season Green Mountain Opera Festival
Carmen & Così fan tutte
Artistic Director Vermont, USA
  Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Bass Soloist Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood
- Stefan Asbury
  Various Ukrainian concert Soloist Calgary Philharmonic - Edmond Agopian
  Puccini Gianni Schicchi Simone Calgary Opera - Robert Tweten
2010 Donizetti Roberto Devereux Gualtiero Opéra de Montréal - Francesco Maria Colombo
  Glinka Ruslan & Ludmila Ruslan Opera in Concert - Toronto (Raissa Nakhmanivich)
  Mozart Don Giovanni Leporello Orchestre Métropolitain - Yannick Nézet-Séguin
  5th season Green Mountain Opera Festival
Lucia di Lammermoor & Orlando
Artistic Director Vermont, USA
  Mozart Die Zauberflöte Sarastro Orchestre Symphonique de Longueuil
  Donizetti Elisir d'Amore Dulcamara Southminster Music for Charity and Community (Ottawa, Ontario)
2009 Tremblay, Gilles L’eau qui danse...
(Fairy Tale opera, world premier)
Le Roi Chants Libres, Montreal
  various Broadway classics concert soloist Guatemala City, Guatemala
  Puccini Gianni Schicchi Simone

Opéra de Montréal - James Meena

  4th annual Green Mountain Opera Festival
Le Nozze di Figaro & Elisir d'Amore
Artistic Director Waitsfield, Vermont
  Strauss Salome Erster Soldat Vancouver Opera - Jonathan Darlington
  opera concert various soloist Barre Opera House -  Claude Webster accompanist
  Verdi Ariadne auf Naxos Truffaldino & Wigmaster Calgary Opera - David Agler
2008 Fauré Requiem Bass soloist Counterpoint Chorale - William Woloschuk
  Thomas Hamlet The Ghost Opera Lyra Ottawa - Tadeusz Biernacki
  recital works by Vaughan Williams, Fauré,
Sonevytsky, and Vesolovsky
  Ottawa - Esther Gonthier pianist
& Mario Leblanc acordion
  recital

works by Vaughan Williams, Fauré,
Sonevytsky, and Vesolovsky

  Music at Grazhda Festival, NY
Accompanied by Volodymyr Vynnytsky
  3rd year Green Mountain Opera Festival
La Traviata
Artistic Director Vermont, USA
  Verdi Falstaff Pistola Edmonton Opera - James Meena
  Shostakovich Symphony #14 Bass soloist Atlantic Classical Orchestra - Stewart Robertson
2007 various Concert with soprano Mariateresa Magisano   Panache - Auberge St Antoine (Quebec, Qc)
  Mozart Don Giovanni Leporello Opera Lyra Ottawa - Tyrone Patterson
  Tchaikovsky Yevgheny Onegin Captain & Zaretsky Montreal Symphony Orchestra - Kent Nagano
  various Garden Party fundraiser soloist Opera Lyra Ottawa - Judy Ginsburg, pianist
  2nd year Green Mountain Opera Festival
Madama Butterfly
Artistic Director Vermont, USA
  Bizet Carmen Zuniga Calgary Opera - Daniel Beckwith conductor
  Saint-Säens Samson et Dalilah Abimelech Opera Ontario - Daniel Lipton conductor
  Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos Truffaldino Vancouver Opera - Jonathan Darlington
2006 Rossini La Cenerentola Don Magnifico Calgary Opera - Robert Dean, conductor
  Inaugural year Green Mountain Opera Festival
Barbiere di Siviglia
Artistic Director Vermont, USA
  Mozart gala concert with orchestra Figaro & Leporello Bravissimo Concert Series (Guatemala City)
Francis Graffeo, conductor
  Mozart gala concert with orchestra soloist Orford Arts Centre & Orchestre Metropolitain,
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
  various various - opera gala soloist Toqué (Montréal, Qc)
  Nielsen 3rd Symphony "Sinfonia Espansiva" Bass Soloist Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Jacques Lacombe, conductor
  various Gala Fundraiser for the St. John Ambulance soloist Ritz Carlton Ballroom (Montreal, Qc)
2005 Handel Messiah Bass soloist Orchestre Symphonique de Trois Rivières
  Various Repertoire Recital with pianist Shannon Hiebert soloist
OSEREDOK Ukrainian Cultural Centre (Winnipeg, MB)

Puccini La Bohème Colline Manitoba Opera - Dean Williamson, conductor

various Opera concert (The Garden Party) soloist
Opera Lyra Ottawa

Offenbach
Les Contes d'Hoffman
Luther/Crespel/ Shlemil
Opera Lyra Ottawa - Tyrone Patterson, conductor

various repertoire
Opera concert
soloist
Salle Pauline Julien (Mtl, Qc)

various repertoire Opera concert soloist
l'ARAM (Repentigny, Qc)
2004 various repertoire
Recital

Washington Group Cultural Fund (Washington, DC)

various repertoire Recital
Overture Concert Series (Nelson, BC)
  Tchaikovsky Yevgheny Onegin Prince Gremin Usti Nad Labem Opera Theatre (Czech Republic)
David Agler, conductor

Verdi Rigoletto Sparafucile & Monterone Manitoba Opera - Tyrone Patterson, conductor

various repertoire
Opera Gala
soloist
Orchestre Symphonique de Trois Rivières

Verdi Rigoletto Sparafucile & Monterone Opera Lyra Ottawa - Tyrone Patterson, conductor

Rossini La Cenerentola Don Magnifico Opera Saskatchewan - Bill Boggs, conductor
2003 various repertoire Christmas Concert soloist
Leonardo da Vinci Centre (Montreal, Quebec)

Mozart Don Giovanni Leporello Manitoba Opera - Tadeusz Biernacki, cond

Tchaikovsky Yevgheny Onegin Zarestky Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia Basilio Opera Saskatchewan - Tyrone Patterson, conductor
2002 various gala concert soloist
Opéra de Montréal - Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Verdi Aïda The King Vancouver Opera - Joseph Rescigno, conductor

various Art song recital Recital Music at Grazhda Festival, New York

Tchaikovsky Iolanta Ibn-Hakia Lanaudière Festival - Yannick Nézet-Séguin, cond

Mozart Don Giovanni Don Giovanni Opéra En Plein Air (touring France and Belgium)
Jérome Pillement, conductor

Puccini La Bohème Colline Opera Lyra Ottawa - Tyrone Patterson, conductor

Bruckner Mass in F minor Bass Soloist University of Ottawa

Puccini La Bohème Colline Calgary Opera - Robert Dean, conductor
2001 Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Figaro Vancouver Opera - Jonathan Darlington, conductor

Verdi Le Trouvère Fernand Lanaudière Festival - Yannick Nézet-Séguin, cond

Mozart Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Osmin Orchestre Métropolitain
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Schubert, Brahms Lieder Recital with pianist
Vladimir Feltsman 
Vier Ernste Gesange,
Schwanengesang
SUNY - New Paltz, NY
McKenna Theatre

varied repertoire Opera concert Verdi, Bizet, Rossini Minnesota Orchestra - David Allan Miller

Verdi Aïda The King Opéra de Montréal - Victor DiRenzi, conductor

Verdi Il Trovatore Ferrando Opera Lyra Ottawa - Tyrone Patterson, conductor

Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Figaro Opera Saskatchewan - Tyrone Patterson, conductor
2000 Verdi Il Trovatore Ferrando Calgary Opera - Tyrone Patterson, conductor

Mozart Don Giovanni  Leporello Vancouver Opera -  Steuard Bedford, conductor

Verdi Aïda The King Calgary Opera - Mario Bernardi, conductor
1999 Verdi Aïda The King  Edmonton Opera - Mario Bernardi, conductor

Mozart Magic Flute (concert version) Sarastro Minnesota Orchestra

Strauss Salome First Soldier Opéra de Montréal -  David Agler, conductor

Beethoven 9th Symphony Bass soloist Victoria Symphony

Mozart Don Giovanni  Leporello Pacific Opera - Timothy Vernon, conductor

Puccini La Bohème Colline Edmonton Opera
1998 Handel Messiah Bass soloist  Vancouver Bach Choir

Handel Messiah Bass soloist  Edmonton Symphony

Ravel Enfant et les Sortilèges  Armchair & Tree Minnesota Orchestra - Eiji Oue

Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera Tomaso Pacific Opera - Timothy Vernon, conductor

Puccini La Bohème Colline Vancouver Opera
1997 Britten Midsummer Night's Dream Nick Bottom Aspen Music Fetival - Robert Spano, conductor

Mozart Don Giovanni Leporello Aspen Music Festival - Julius Rudel, conductor

Schubert Die Zwillingsbrüder  Der Schulze CBC Vancouver Orchestra - Mario Bernardi, cond

Floyd Susannah Blitch (understudy)  Vancouver Opera - David Agler, conductor
1996 Britten Peter Grimes Jim Hobson Tanglewood Festival - Seiji Ozawa, conductor

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OTHER TRAINING & SKILLS
Languages: English, French, Ukrainian (fully fluent) / Russian & Italian (strong working knowledge)
Computer skills: Excellent knowledge of MS Office suite (WORD, EXCEL, OUTLOOK, EXPRESSION 4).
Excellent typing skills, quick learner and self-taught website builder using MS Expression 4
Voice Training: 2007 - 2012: Sanford Sylvan;  2004 - 2007 Claude Corbeil;  1989 - 2004 Carmen Mehta
Master Classes: Daniel Beckwith, Victor Braun, Phyllis Curtin, Victoria DeLosAngeles, Judith Forst, Reri Grist, Warren Jones, Martin Katz, Yuri Mazurok, Carmen Mehta, Louis Salemno, Virginia Zeani
Coaches: Richard Bado, Dale Bartlett, James Craig, Peter Dala, Ken Griffiths, Esther Gonthier, Stuart Hamilton, Carol Isaac,
Martin Katz, Denise Massé, Michael McMahon, Kenneth Merill, David Owen Norris, Stephen Ralls, Marie-Ève Scarfone, Leslie Uyeda, Claude Webster
Conductors: David Agler, Christian Badea, Daniel Beckwith, Mario Bernardi, Johnathan Darlington, Francis Graffeo, James Meena, David Alan Miller, Peter McCoppin, Gzegorz Nowak, Eiji Oue, Seiji Ozawa, Tyrone Paterson, Bruce Pullan, Joseph Rescigno, Julius Rudel, Louis Salemno, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Robert Spano, Alexandre Vedernikov, Timothy Vernon, Willy Waters, Dean Williamson
Stage Directors: Henry Akina, Michael Albano, Elizabeth Bachman, Edward Berkeley, Michael Cavanagh, Brian Deedrick, Tom Diamond, Atom Egoyan, David Gately, Irving Guttman, Nancy Hermiston, David Kneuss, Glynis Leyshon, Martin Otava, James Robinson, Kelly Robinson, Nicholas Muni, Bernard Uzan

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