RESUME
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Faculty Artist Recital: The Seasons
University of Dayton, Sears Recital Hall
Music by Robert Schumann, Amy Beach, Margaret Bonds
with Ryu-Kyung Kim, mezzo-soprano, David Sievers, tenor, Brad Mattingly, baritone, and John Benjamin, piano
November 6, 2022, 7:30pm
Faculty Artist Recital: The Juggler of Our Lady & Barnaby's Gift
University of Dayton, Sears Recital Hall
World premiere of Barnaby's Gift by Scott Gendel
with Jerome Yorke, Jr., clown/actor, and John Benjamin, piano
January 21, 2023
PAST PERFORMANCES
2022
Mozart's Requiem
Bach Society of Dayton
2019
Recital: Love Me Like a Beautiful Dream, music for Soprano, Horn and Piano
University of Dayton, Sears Recital Hall
with Aaron Brant, horn, and John Benjamin, piano
2018
The Consul (Foreign Woman)
Dayton Opera
Recital: University of Dayton Artists in Residence in Concert
University of Dayton
Concert: Romantic Connections
Bach Society of Dayton
Faculty Artist Recital: MASK, a Consort of Viols
University of Dayton, Sears Recital Hall.
Music by William Byrd and Dolly Parton
2017
Mozart's Requiem
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman
Brahms' Liebeslieder
Bach Society of Dayton, John Neely, conductor
Lecture Recital: Jules Massenet's Musical Redemption of the Biblical Femme Fatale
University of Dayton
Music by Jules Massenet with Stephen Variames, piano
Recital
Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music & University of Dayton
Music by Stephen Paulus and Scott Gendel with Donna Loewy, piano
Recital: Menotti & More
University of Dayton, Sears Recital Hall
Music by Gian-Carlo Menotti and Alan Louis Smith with John Benjamin, piano
2016
Requiem, G. Faure
Gloria, A. Vivaldi
Bach Society of Dayton, John Neely, conductor
Excerpts from Don Giovanni (Donna Anna)
Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, Jeese Leong & Brian Diller, conductors
Recital
Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music
Music by Purcell, Rachmaninoff, Hoiby, Dayley, Duke, Clara Schumann, Koechlin, Ravel, Bachelet, with Phillip Roberts, piano
2015
OperaFusion: New Works Workshop
Shalimar the Clown, An opera by Jack Perla (India/Boonyi)
Cincinnati Opera/Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music
University of California in Los Angeles
Dead Man Walking (Kitty Hart)
Dayton Opera
The Tempest, An opera by Joseph Summer (Juno)
The Shakespeare Concerts Series
*World Premiere
Mass in c minor, W.A. Mozart
Bach Society of Dayton, John Neely, conductor
2014
The Magic Flute (First Lady)
Dayton Opera
Aida (High Priestess)
Dayton Opera
Ninth Symphony, L. von Beethoven
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, conductor
Ninth Symphony, L. von Beethoven
Arcadia Players, Ian Watson, conductor
Recital: Women of the Bible
University of Dayton Faculty Artist Series
Music by Henry Purcell, Gabriel Faure, Joseph Marx, Hugo Wolf, Jake Heggie & Libby Larsen, with John Benjamin, piano
Recital: Voices of Spring: Songs of Remembrance, Renewal and Revolution, University of Dayton Faculty Artist Series
Music by Franz Abt, Maurice Ravel, Heitor Villa-Lobos, John Duke, Dominc Argento, Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Max Roach & Abby Lincoln, Igor Stravinsky
2013
Requiem, G. Verdi
Manhattan Symphony Orchestra, Hiroya Aoki, conductor
(Carnegie Hall)
Lord Nelson Mass, J. Haydn Bach Society of Dayton, John Neely, conductor
Recital: Shakespeare Concerts Series
Chamber Music by Joseph Summer, Dominick Argento,
and C.W. Gluck, with Arcadia Players (Jordan Hall)
Ian Watson, conductor
Exsultate Jubilate, W.A. Mozart
Bach Society of Dayton, John Neely, conductor
Recital: Music for Soprano and Clarinet
University of Dayton Faculty Artist Series
Music by Franz Lachner, Giacomo Meyebeer, Arthur Bliss, Newell Dayley, John Duke, Lee Hoiby, Arnold Cooke, and Franz Schubert with Wallis Vore, clarinet and John Benjamin, piano
2012
"Maria's Wiegenlied," Max Reger;
"Rejoice, Greatly" from Messiah, G.F. Handel
Dayton Philarmonic Orchestra, Patrick Reynolds, conductor
Recital: Tell Me the Truth About Love
University of Dayton Faculty Artist Series
Works by Lee Hoiby, Clara Schumann, Hector Berlioz, Charles Koechlin, Alfred Bachelet, Benjamin Britten, and Sergei Rachmaninoff with John Benjamin, piano
Recital: Shakespeare Concerts Series
Music by Joseph Summer, Richard Strauss, and Camille Saint-Saens with Miroslav Sekera, piano
Recital: Modern Interpretations of Shakespeare
University of Dayton Faculty Artist Series
Songs and Arias by Charles Gounod, Amy Beach, Benjamin Britten, Richard Strauss, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saens, Thomas Pasatieri, and Joesph Summer with Ingrid Keller, piano
2011
Judas Maccabeus, G.F. Handel
Bach Society of Dayton, John Neely, conductor
Xerxes (Atalanta)
Arcadia Players at the Connecticut Early Music Festival
Ian Watson, conductor
Recital: University of Dayton Faculty Showcase,
"Songs from Letters" by Libby Larsen with Eric Street, piano
Recital: Shakespeare Concerts Series
Chamber Music by Joseph Summer, Thomas Arne, Ralph Vaughan-Williams, with the Kalmia String Quartet
2010
Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia)
Commonwealth Opera
Gloria, Antonio Vivaldi
Mass in E flat, Haydn
Bach Society of Dayton, John Neely, conductor
Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi)
Commonwealth Opera
Dona Nobis Pacem, Vaughan-Williams
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, conductor
Magnificat in D, J.S. Bach
Magnificat, Rutter
Dayton Bach Society, John Neely, conductor
Candide (Cunegonde)
Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, Robert Franz, conductor
Elijah, Mendelssohn
Chester County Choral Society (PA), Gary Garletts, conductor
Mass in the Time of War (Haydn)
Western Reserve Choral Society (OH)
Recital: Music for Horn, Soprano and Piano
Francis Merion University Arts Series (SC)
2008
Der Rosenkavalier (Noble Orphan)
The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most, conductor
Mass in g minor, Vaughan Williams
Bach Society of Dayton, John Neely, conductor
Mass in G, Schubert
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Jayce Ogren, conductor
Theresienmesse: Mass in B flat, Haydn
Mansfield Symphony, Robert Franz, conductor
The Big Bonanza, an opera by Monica Houghton (Caroline & Julia)
Private Reading: Steven Byess, conductor
Cleveland Art Song Festival
Dutch International Vocal Competition (s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands)
2007
Messiah, Handel
Telemann Chamber Orchestra (Osaka, Japan), Neal Gittleman, conductor
The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, conductor
Christmas Oratorio, J.S. Bach
Telemann Chamber Orchestra (Tokyo, Japan), Neal Gittleman, conductor
A Red Couch Floats on Lake Erie, J. Sheffer
Red {an orchestra}, Jonathan Sheffer, conductor
2006
Magnificat in D , J.S. Bach
The Cleveland Orchestra, Robert Porco, conductor
Mass in c minor, W.A. Mozart
Agnus Dei, R. Rodriguez
The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, conductor
Coronation Mass, W. A. Mozart
The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Hank Dahlman, conductor
Exsultate Jubilate, W. A. Mozart
Theresienmesse: Mass in B flat, Haydn
Cantata 106, J.S. Bach
Regina Coeli, W.A. Mozart
Vesprae di domenica, W. A. Mozart
The Wind in the Willows, J. Rutter (Gaoler's Daughter)
The Dayton Bach Society, John Neely, conductor
Abduction from the Seraglio (Blondchen)
Lyric Opera Cleveland
Turandot (Liu)
Cleveland Opera on Tour
Cleveland Art Song Festival
2005
Metropolitan Opera Regional Finalist
"The Doll Song," J. Offenbach (Olympia)
The Cleveland Orchestra, James Gaffigan & Andrew Grams, conductors
The Fall of the House of Usher, Phillip Glass (Madeline)
Lyric Opera Cleveland
2004
Metropolitan Opera Regional Finalist
The Mikado (Pitti-Sing)
Little Women, Mark Adamo (Alma March, cover)
Lyric Opera Cleveland
The Seasons (Haydn)
The Dayton Bach Society, John Neely, conductor
Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna, cover)
The Cleveland Institute of Music
2003
Die Fledermaus (Rosalinda, cover)
Lyric Opera Cleveland