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2023

February 8, 2023: Wednesday Morning Musicale: Chansons de Bilitis - Debussy

Karen Schmid, piano

March 8, 2023: Twentieth Century Club, Guest Artist Voice Recital (private event)

Karent Schmid, piano

Twentieth Century Club, Buffalo, NY

March 24-26: Ruddigore, Gilbert & Sullivan — Mad Margaret

Opera-Lytes

Alleyway Theater, Buffalo, NY

 

past events

 
 

2022

December 16, 2022: A Camerata Christmas

Camerata di Sant’Antonio and Holy Trinity Chancel Choir

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Buffalo, NY

December 14, 2022: Wednesday Morning Musicale: Christmas Oratorio Arias

Karen Schmid, piano

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Buffalo, NY

December 4, 2022: Un ballo in Maschera, Giuseppe Verdi — Ulrica

Buffalo Opera Unlimited

Rockwell Performing Arts Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY

December 2, 2022: Un ballo in Maschera, Giuseppe Verdi — Ulrica

Buffalo Opera Unlimited

Rockwell Performing Arts Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY

October 29, 2022: Love’s Labour’s Lost: Voice Recital

Linda Mabry, piano

Erwin H. Johnson Memorial Fund

September 30, 2022: If You Get Near a Song, Play It!: The Marx Brothers and Music — Featured performer

Noah Diamond, virtual livestreamed illustrated lecture

Freedonia Marxonia, Reed Library, SUNY Fredonia

September 17, 2022: Inside Opera Series Recital: Un ballo in Maschera

Nick DelBello, Buffalo Opera Unlimited Interim Artistic Director

OperaBuffs of Western New York

 

August 18, 2022: “Paths to Freedom: Sanctuary Road”

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

Chautauqua Institution, Amphitheater

 

July 21, 2022: Mozart to Modern and Waltzes to Rags: Porch Concert Recital

Wednesday Morning Musicale

November 14, 2021: Facing Forward/Looking Back by Jake Heggie, duets for soprano and mezzo-soprano

Lucille Horn Graduate Voice Recital

Lucille Horn, soprano, and EunJoo Jeon, piano

October 30, 2021: Bewitching Broadway

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleinhans Music Hall

August 8, 2021: Vivaldi Gloria — Alto soloist

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus

Chautauqua Institution

August 7, 2021: Vivaldi Gloria — Alto soloist

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus

Artpark Amphitheater. Lewiston, NY

2020

* Denotes a performance cancelled or postponed due the COVID-19 pandemic

December 21, 24 & 26, 2020: Handel’s Messiah, WNED televised broadcast — Alto soloist

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus

CANCELLED*: October 18: Symphony No. 5: Return to Middle Earth, Johan de Meij — alto section leader

Buffalo Niagara Concert Band, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus

POSTPONED*: October 10: Erwin J. Johnson Memorial Fund Recital: Frauenliebe und -leben (“Woman’s Love and Life)

with Linda Mabry (piano)

Ciminelli Recital Hall, Rockwell Hall, Buffalo State College

POSTPONED*: September 24: Immortal Games, a chess micro-opera by Jamie Leigh Sampson — The Black Queen

Faculty Composer Concert, SUNY Fredonia

POSTPONED* to July 2021: July 23, 25, 26: La Cenerentola, Gioachino Rossini — Tisbe

Geneva Light Opera

POSTPONED* to June 26 and 27th, 2021: June 27 & 28: The Second Sight, Jessie Downs — Second Spirit

Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo and Nickel City Opera

POSTPONED*: June 7: Robert Cohen’s Alzheimer Stories, Bach Magnificat

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus

POSTPONED: March 14: Italian Opera in Western New York Recital

with James Judd (tenor), Antonella DiGiulio (piano), and Michael Serio (piano)

March 7: American Mother by Jamie Leigh Sampson for mezzo-soprano and piano

Graduate Recital: Sandra Leary, piano

SUNY Fredonia

March 1: Harmonia Chamber Singers: Into Light

St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

February 26: World Premiere of American Mother by Jamie Leigh Sampson for mezzo-soprano and piano

Graduate Recital: Sandra Leary, piano

SUNY Fredonia

February 22: John Carroll Senior Composition Recital — Dearest Willow (for mezzo-soprano and prepared piano)

Sandra Leary, piano

Rosch Recital Hall, Fredonia School of Music

January 31: Buffalo State Voice Program Benefit Concert

Rockwell Hall, Ciminelli Recital Hall

January 25 & 26: Requiem, W. A. Mozart — alto section leader

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

 

2019

December 19, 20, 21 & 22: John Morris Russell’s Holiday Pops — alto section leader

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

December 15: Messe de Minuit pour Noël, Marc-Antoine Charpentier — Alto soloist

December 13 & 14: JoAnn’s Classical Christmas — alto section leader

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestera

November 24 & December 1: Handel’s Messiah — alto section leader

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus

October 26: Opera Day: Art and Arias

Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, Niagara Falls, NY

August 4: BWV 79, Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, J. S. Bach — Alto soloist

"For the Beauty of the World": A concert of Bach and Imant Raminsh

Masterworks a la Carte, East Aurora, NY

June 16: QED Vocal Ensemble: Bleuet de France

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, NY

June 4: The Second Sight, Jessie Downs — Color Trio (alto)

June in Buffalo Festival

Sotto Voce Vocal Collective

June 1 & 2: Carmen, Georges Bizet — alto section leader

JoAnn Falletta, conductor

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

May 24 & 25: An American Salute — alto section leader

John Morris Russell, conductor

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

May 17: QED Vocal Ensemble: Westminster Chorus Concert

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, NY

May 12: RV 589, Gloria, Antonio Vivaldi — alto soloist

First Presbyterian Church of East Aurora, East Aurora, NY

May 3: QED Vocal Ensemble: Westminster Presbyterian Friends of Music Gala

The Saturn Club, Buffalo, NY

April 17: Saturday, 29 A. D., A Chamber Opera by Mark Schweizer — Claudia Procula

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, NY

April 13 & 14: The Passion of Yeshua, Richard Danielpour — alto section leader

JoAnn Falletta, conductor

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

March 20: Jake Heggie Concert — Paper Wings (for mezzo-soprano and piano)

A concert of works by guest artist Jake Heggie

Rosch Recital Hall, Fredonia School of Music

 

March 7: Faculty Composers Concert — Rotting Shoelaces, duet for mezzo-soprano and baritone with piano, Jamie Leigh Sampson

David Waterland, baritone

Theresa Thorardsen, piano

SUNY Fredonia, Rosch Recital Hall, Fredonia, NY

 

February 24: RV 589, Gloria, Antonio Vivaldi

Camerata di Sant’ Antonio and Vivaldi’s Women

St. Anthony of Padua Church, Buffalo, NY

 

February 3: BWV 243, Magnificat, J. S. Bach — Alto soloist

First Presbyterian Church of East Aurora, East Aurora, NY

 

2018

 

December 16: BWV 142, Uns ist ein Kind geboren, J. S. Bach — Alto soloist

The Presbyterian Church, Geneva, NY

December 13, 14, 15 & 16: John Morris Russell’s Holiday Pops — alto section leader

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

December 7 & 8: JoAnn’s Classical Christmas — alto section leader

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

 

November 25: Handel’s Messiah — alto section leader

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Buffalo, NY

 
 
 

October 28: QED Concert: In Memoriam

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, NY

 
 

October 2: Fredonia School of Music Student Composers Concert

“Secrets Spoken Often Lie” by Matthew Kowalski, for two mezzo-sopranos and vibraphone

 
 

September 15: Beethoven's 9th Symphony — alto section leader

JoAnn Falletta, conductor

Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

 
 

July 26, 28, 29: The Barber of Seville -- Berta (cover)

Geneva Light Opera, Geneva, NY

March 2, 3, 4: SOTA Opera Scenes: Dialogues of the Carmelites -- Prioress

Fredonia Student Opera Theatre Association, Fredonia, NY

January 5, 6, 7: Amahl and the Night Visitors -- Mother (cover)

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, NY

2017

December 10: Vivaldi Gloria -- Alto soloist

Presbyterian Church, Geneva, NY

December 6: Poinsettia Pops -- Mezzo-soprano Soloist

Western New York Chamber Orchestra, Jamestown, NY

December 1, 3: The Magic Flute -- Second Lady

Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Buffalo, NY