PERFORMANCES

  • 2023: Earth to Kenzie (Teacher/Taxi Driver/Space Kitty), Inland Northwest Opera, Spokane, WA
  • 2023: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (“Sweeney Todd”), Stage Left Theater, Spokane, WA
  • 2023: Guys & Dolls (“Benny Southstreet”), My Turn Theatre, Spokane, WA
  • 2020: Last of the Red Hot (Cyber) Lovers (“Henry”), From Soop to Nut Festival, Pelham, NY
  • 2019: The Pirates of Penzance (“The Pirate King”), Utopia Opera, New York, NY
  • 2019: Anne Frank: A Musical (“Fritz Pfeifer”), Broadway Mad Production, New York, NY
  • 2019: Brigadoon (“Angus MacGuffie”), Little Radical Theatrics, Yonkers, NY
  • 2018: Amahl & The Night Visitors (“King Melchior”), American Chamber Orchestra
  • 2017: The Magic Knight (“The King”), Troupers Light Opera Company, Norwalk, Connecticut
  • 2017: H.M.S. Pinafore (“Boatswain”), Troupers Light Opera Company, Norwalk, Connecticut
  • 2016: The Emperor and the Nightingale (“The Music Master”), conducted by Richard Slade, New Rochelle, New York at Iona College with the New Rochelle Chamber of Arts
  • 2015: The Fantasticks (“El Gallo”), produced by Embark | Peekskill, directed by Katie Schmidt Feder, Peekskill, New York
  • 2014: Leonard Lehrman’s Hannah (“Nikanor”), conducted and produced by the composer, Hebrew Union College, New York, New York
  • 2014: Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde (“Noye”), conducted by Richard Slade, New Rochelle, New York at Iona College with the New Rochelle Chamber of Arts
  • 2014: Brahms Requiem (baritone soloist), conducted by Richard Slade, Summer 2014 Westchester Sings
  • 2014: Faure Requiem and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Memorial Service (baritone soloist), with The Westchester Chorale
  • 2013: Schoenberg’s Kol Nidrei, Op. 39 (“Rabbi” – narrator), conducted by Leon Botstein, Bard Music Festival
  • 2013: Souls on Fire (bass soloist) by Charles Osborne, with Shir Chadash, Union Temple, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2013: The Zemel Choir on Tour in North America (soloist), Temple Israel of New Rochelle
  • 2013: Winter Jewish Music Concert (soloist), Temple Israel of Greater Miami
  • 2012: Cantata 140, “Wachet Auf and Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio (bass soloist) with the Westchester Chorale
  • 2012: Sholem Aleichem dir, Amerike! (baritone soloist) with the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus, New York, New York
  • 2010, 2012: Further Definitions of the Days of Awe (cantor) with the Afro-Semitic Experience, New Haven, Connecticut, Westchester and New York, New York
  • 2010: Requiem (bass soloist) by W.A. Mozart, Petakh Tikva, Israel
  • 2010: Service Sacré (cantor) by Darius Milhaud with the Westchester Chorale, Larchmont, New York
  • 2009: Avodat HaKodesh—Sacred Service (cantor) by Ernest Bloch with the Menno Singers, Kitchener, Ontario
  • 2008: Avodat HaKodesh (cantor) by Ernest Bloch with the Songs of Life Festival, Sofia and Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Petah Tikva and Jerusalem, Israel
  • 2008: Israel in Egypt (bass soloist) by G. F. Handel with the Westchester Chorale, Temple Israel of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
  • 2006: Reclaiming American Judaism’s Lost Musical Legacy (soloist)—A concert of the American Society for Jewish Music, Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, New York
  • 2005: Vergessene Musik (Forgotten Music) (cantor)—A concert of the German Jewish Rite, Munich, Germany
  • 2004, 2005: The Cantors Concert (The German Jewish Rite) (cantor), Leo Baeck Institute, New York, New York
  • 2005: Composer-in-Residence—Temple Israel of Northern Westchester, Croton-On-Hudson, New York
  • 2003: Music director and conductor, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York, for Convocation Service in honor of the 50th anniversary of the American Conference of Cantors
  • 2002: Cantor-in-Residence, Temple Emanu-El, San Antonio, Texas
  • 2001: Let Freedom Sing (soloist), The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.: Concert featuring members of the American Conference of Cantors
  • 2000: Music director, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, Cheltenham Township’s 100th Anniversary Celebration, Organized service. Compiled and produced liturgy. Conducted 100 member volunteer choir. Directed musical offerings
  • 1999, 2000: Musical Service (cantor) with the Westminster Conservatory Youth Chorale
  • 1999: Hanukkah Concert (soloist), Philadelphia Art Museum.
  • 1998: The Götheburg International Organ Festival, (Cantor, Soloist, Lecturer), Götheburg, Sweden. Concert of Jewish Art Music for Cantor and Pipe Organ with Kimberly Marshall. Led services at the Great Synagogue
  • 1990: The Pirates of Penzance, (“The Pirate King”), University of York, UK
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