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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

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