artistic affiliates

baritone

Greg Hoyt

Juliane Gallant (Opera on Location), Olaf Storbeck (Lyric Opera Studio Weimar), Gregory Buchalter (Amore Opera), Ronald Gretz (Baltimore Concert Opera), Michael Fennelly (NY Lyric Opera), Gregory Buchalter (Opera Camerata of Washington), Blair Skinner (The Figaro Project), Stephen Czarkowski (Opera Camerata of Washington, Matthew Salomon (Repertory Opera Theater Washington), Tony Bellomy (NY Lyric Opera), Miran Vaupotić (Atlantic Coast Opera Festival), Steven Osgood (MSM), Bruce Stasyna (Sugar Creek Symphony & Song), James Lowe (Sugar Creek Symphony & Song), William Hicks (Martha Cardona Theater), Jorge Parodi (MSM), Adam Flatt (ECO), Michael Tilley (ECO), Dan Saunders (Harrower), Peter Marshall (Harrower), Z. Randall Stroope (solo engagement), Brian Kay (BCF), Steven Smith (IU Opera Theater), Tom Hall (solo engagement), William Jon Gray (IU Chorale)

Directors

Ashley Pearson (Opera on Location), Russell Garrett (Sierra Repertory Theatre), Laura Hirschberg (enCanta Collective), Audrey Chait (enCanta Collective), Mo Zhou (enCanta Collective), William Remmers (Utopia Unlimited Opera Co.), Katherine Carter (enCanta Collective), Mary Birnbaum (enCanta Collective), William Schaller (The Figaro Project),  Roger Bennett Riggle (Opera Camerata of Washington),  Michael Rainbow (Repertory Opera Theater Washington), Robert Butts (Atlantic Coast Opera Festival), Kenneth Merrill (MSM), Dona Vaughn (MSM), A. Scott Parry (Sugar Creek), Jonathan Field (Sugar Creek), Dan Cardona (Martha Cardona Opera), Miriam Charney (MSM), Mignon Dunn (MSM), Gordon Ostrowski (MSM), Sarah Meyers (ECO), Keturah Stickann (ECO), Copeland Woodruff (Harrower), Carroll Freeman (Harrower), Derrick Ballard (ECO), Michael Ehrman (IU Opera Theater)

General/Artistic Directors

Damon Nestor Ploumis (Lyric Opera Studio Weimar),Scott Viets (Sierra Repertory Theatre), Brendan Cooke (Baltimore Concert Opera), Nobuko Amemiya (enCanta Collective), Caitlin Vincent (The Figaro Project), Helen Todd (Sugar Creek), Sylvia McNair (IU), Keri Rusthoi (ECO), W. Dwight Coleman (Harrower), Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios (Redwoods)

Voice Teachers

Jeanette Favaro-Reuter, Nina Hinson, Francis Keeping, Mark Oswald, Marietta Simpson, John Aler, Timothy Noble

Coaches

Nobuko Amemiya, Erik Sedgwick, Miriam Charney, Kenneth Merrill 

education, training, awards

Manhattan School of Music (MSM) * Classical Voice Performance * Master of Music 
​Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (IU) * Performance (Voice) * Bachelor of Music

Training

Kenneth Merrill's "Singer's Seminar"  
Miriam Charney's Contemporary Opera Ensemble 
Sugar Creek Symphony & Song Apprentice Program 
Catherine Malfitano's "Revealing the Actor/Singer Within"  
Emerald City Opera (ECO) Artist Institute 
Harrower Opera Workshop 
​Redwoods Opera Workshop 
​Baritone Apprentice-Berkshire Choral Festival, Canterbury

Awards

Performing-Artist-in-Residence Scholarship * International House 
​Voice Faculty Four-Year Scholarship * Indiana University-Jacobs School of Music