Vocal Experience (selection)

2003-2004
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor, Boston, MA

• Wynton Marsalis' All Rise conducted by Kurt Masur with Wynton Marsalis
• Holiday Pops concerts conducted by John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Bruce Hangen
• Hector Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ conducted by Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos

Yale Alumni Chorus, New Haven , CT

• April 2003 Performances at the Kremlin, Moscow, and the New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven, CT
• Music of Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and patriotic Russian songs from the 1940s with baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Constantin Orbelian

• Soprano soloist and assistant conductor
• 2002-03 Season included the premiere of Tamar Diesendruck's The Mystery , Kui Dong's Shiu Diao Ge Tou/Song and Mark Winges' Unbecoming: Songs for Dancing. Also performed were works by Arne Mellnäs (Sweden), Lojze Lebic (Slovenia), Wayne Peterson (US), György Kurtag (Hungary), Roberto Sierra (US), Alan Shearer (US), and the transcendent Lux Aeterna by György Ligeti. Joining us in our final concert of the season were guest percussionists Ward Spangler and Chris Froh. San Francisco Classical Voice has referred to our "stunning performances," and stated: "The San Francisco Chamber Singers under Robert Geary are an important and formidable local asset, immensely rewarding to hear in repertoire that no one else seems to be taking on."
• 2001-02 Season included the premiere of Stacy Garrop's Sonnets of Love and Chaos and Pekka Kostiainen's Harvoin yhtehen yhymme. Also performed were works by Dov Carmel (Israel), Arne Mellnäs (Sweden), Lojze Lebic (Slovenia), Marek Jasinski (Poland) and California composers Wayne Peterson, Morten Lauridsen, Mark Winges and Tom Flaherty. Our final concert of the season included Gian Carlo Menotti's The Unicorn, the Gorgon, & the Manticore, with choreography by Fabrice Lemire.
• 2000-01 Season featured a concert of new works by Mark Winges, a Hallowe'en costumed concert in Stern Grove, and a collection of contemporary Scandinavian pieces
• 1999-2000 Season included concerts of music by contemporary female composers (at Mills College, Oakland), and music for choir and percussion (at the California Palace of Fine Arts at the Legion of Honor Museum, featuring Ceremony after a Fire Raid by William Mathias)

1998-2003
High Holidays Choir, Temple Beth El, San Mateo, CA.
Ellen Schwab, cantor, Joe Hanson, organist/choirmaster

• Soprano soloist and professional choir member
• Sacred Service by Bloch
• Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein
• Renaissance motets in Hebrew from Mantua
• Commissions of new choral works
• Works by Leopold Lewandowski including Un'taneh tokef and Halleluja
• Works by Max Janowski including Sim Sholom and Avinu Malkeinu
• Works in Hebrew by Mendelssohn and Schubert
• Works by Ben Steinberg including We Remember Them

1996-2002
Baroque Arts Ensemble & West Marin Music Festival, Carol Negro, director

• Soprano soloist and professional choir member
• Bach Mass in B Minor and Passion according to St. John
• Handel Israel in Egypt and Chandos anthems
• Lully De profundis
• Monteverdi Vespers
• Mozart Mass in C Minor
• Pärt Berliner Mass, Magnificat, and Requiem
• Dale Polissar Psalms in Time of War (prmiere)
• Purcell Dido and Aeneas (Second woman)
• P.D.Q. Bach Oedipus Tex (Billie Joe Casta)

2000
February 6, Memorial Service for Abraham Zwickel, St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, Berkeley, California.

• The Holy City
• Arthur Sullivan The Lost Chord
• Daniel Zwickel Shehecheyanu / Sing To The Heart!

1999
Cabrillo Music Festival, Santa Cruz, California.

• Soprano section leader, Large choir, Bernstein's Mass

1998
CSU-Hayward Symphony Orchestra, Fremont, Hayward, and Oakland, California.

• Soprano soloist and rehearsal coach
• Barber Knoxville
• Fauré Requiem
• Handel Messiah

1997-2001
San Francisco Symphony Chorus, conducted by Vance George
14 programs as a soprano, 2 seasons as Assistant Conductor

1997
Old First Concerts, San Francisco & Berkeley City Club, Berkeley
May 2 and 9, VOCI: To be sung on the water, Muriel Fore, Director

• To be sung on the water by Samuel Barber
• maggie and milly and molly and may by Jeanne Weaver Fuller
• The Chambered Nautilus by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Laura Stanfield - soprano
• On suuri sun rantas autius - Finnish folk song

November 1, American Composer's Forum, New Music Salon, Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA.

• World premiere of Three Songs from the Academy by Lawrence Wayte, with the composer as pianist.

1995-1997
San Francisco Choral Artists, Megan Solomon, director

• Soprano soloist and professional choir member
• Commissions and premieres

1995-1997
Philharmonia Baroque Chorale, Marika Kuzma and John Butt, directors

• Small ensemble soloist and professional choir member
• Bach Magnificat, Chirstams Oratorio, St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion
• Handel L'Allegro, Isreal in Egypt, Messiah, Saul
• Purcell Dido and Aeneas with the Mark Morris Dancers
• Fully staged works by Rameau and Bach

1996
December, VOCI : I Sing of a Maiden, Muriel Fore, Director

• Magnificat by Nicola Porpora (1686-1767)
  II. Et exultavit, Laura Stanfield - Soprano, Andrea Sevetson - Alto    
• Ave Maria by Gustav Holst (1874-1934), conductor

University of Illinois Music Ensembles, Urbana, IL.

• Graduate Chorale, Ann Howard Jones and Fred Stoltzfus, directors
• Contemporary Chamber Singers, William Brooks, director
• Sopranos Ensemble, Laura Stanfield, director
• Performances in Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and on NPR

1995
May 10, UI Symphony, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

• Soloist, Witch of Endor in Honegger's King David

1994
December 15, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, Urbana, IL.

• Soprano Soloist, Handel's Messiah

1993
February 2, UI Composer's Forum Recital, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

• World Premiere of Two Yeats Songs by Donnacha Dennehy, with Jane Weigel, flute.

• Telarc recordings of Rachmaninoff, Poulenc, and others.
• Performances of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, the Requiems of Fauré and Duruflé, American spritual arrangements, Poulenc's Gloria, Lent Motets, Christmas Motets and others

1987-90
Yale Glee Club and Chamber Singers, New Haven, CT.

• Tours of the Southeast & Florida, the Midwest, Canada, and Central Europe
• Appearances in Carnegie Hall, Cologne Cathedral, the Gewandaus zu Leipzig, and on Radio Free Europe

1986-90
Battell Chapel Choir, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

1985
All-State Chorus Soprano Soloist, Illinois Music Educator's Association, Peoria, IL.
America's Youth in Concert, Rider College, Princeton, NJ.

• New York, Philadelphia, and European Tour
• Soprano soloist in Avery Fischer Hall and Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

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Last update 1/25/04.