Completed Coursework at "Konservatorium der Stadt Wien"
The Arnold Schoenberg Choir (www.asc.at) is the most renowned and engaged choir in Vienna. It's members are prepared for projects with top conductors, and auditioned personally, by it's founder and director, Professor Erwin Ortner. The choir travels extensively. The sixty concerts I sang in between March 1998 and June 1999 represent the pinnacle of my classical performance career to date, and the rehearsals have been a gold-mine of conducting, vocal pedagogy, and rehearsal techniques.
Representative performances - Opera and Operetta
° Salzburg Festival '98 (six stage performances) and. Lucerne (concert performance) - Messiaen's opera The Life of Francis of Assisi with Jose Van Dam, Dawn Upshaw and the Halle Orchestra of Manchester under the direction of Kent Nagano
° Wiener Festwochen '99 - Theatre an der Wien - A special production for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Johann Strauss' death - Fledermaus under the direction of Nicholas Harnoncourt
Representative performances - Choral-Orchestral Works
° 9/11/98 - BBC Proms - Royal Albert Hall - London - Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under the direction of Nicholas Harnoncourt
° Salzburg Festival '98 - Haydn's Timpani Mass under the direction of Trevor Pinnock
° Salzburg Pentecost Concerts '98- Pergolesi with the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Ricardo Muti
° May and June '99 - Schubert's Gesang der Geister for 8-voice men's chorus with the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Nicholas Harnoncourt
° 7/1/98 - Zurich - Schumann's secular cantata 'Das Paradies und die Peri' under the direction of Nicholas Harnoncourt
° Vienna Osterklang '99- Bach B Minor Mass with the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington
° Salzburg Pentecost Concerts '99 - Messiah with the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington
Representative performances - A cappella
° 3/14/98 - Wien - Schoenberg's Friede auf Erde under the direction of Giuseppe Sinopoli
° September and October '98 - Brussels and Milan - Schubert and Brahms under the direction of Choral Director Erwin Ortner
° October '98 - Milan, Turin, Ferrara - Modern and Renaissance (Luigi Nono, Kurtag, Monteverdi, Willaert, de Rore) under the direction of Choral Director Erwin Ortner
° Ittingen Pentecost Concerts '98 - Ittingen, Switzerland - the four principal Bach Motets and Frank Martin's Messe under the direction of Choral Director Erwin Ortner
In Addition
° March,April and July, 1998
Haydn Harmoniemesse - Te Deum in C for Fuersten Nicholas Esterhazy - 'Qual dubbio ormai' (Cantata) with Concentus Musicus under the direction of Nicholas Harnoncourt
° Theresianmesse
° Faust Szenen
° Carmina/Bernstein
° Brahms Requiem