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Performance

2010

Mozart: Don Giovanni – Don Giovanni (Oklahoma Opera & Musical Theater Company)
Senior Vocal Performance Recital: Click here to download Senior Recital Program

2009

Strauss, Johann II: Die Fledermaus – Eisenstein (Oklahoma Opera & Musical Theater Company)
Donizetti: L’Elisir D’Amore – Chorus (Tulsa Opera)
Brochocka, Katarzyna: Happy Garden of Life – Painter (World Premiere – Project 21 Concert)
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro – Count Almaviva (Oklahoma Opera & Musical Theater Company)
Vaughan Williams: Hodie (Excerpts; Oklahoma City University Symphony Orchestra & Choir)

2008

Händel: The Messiah (Oklahoma City Philharmonic & Canterbury Choral Society)
Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (Vocal Performance Recital with Jan McDaniel)
Puccini: La Rondine – Rambaldo (Oklahoma Opera & Musical Theater Company)
Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance – Samuel (Light Opera Oklahoma)
Bernstein: Candide – Spanish Don/Agent of Inquisition/Ensemble (Light Opera Oklahoma)
Coward: Oh Coward! – Man (Light Opera Oklahoma)
Sproul, Leah: The Last Invocation: A Walt Whitman Song Cycle (World Premiere – Oklahoma City University Symphony Orchestra)
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Oklahoma City University Symphony Orchestra & Choir)
Moore: The Ballad of Baby Doe – Horace Tabor (Oklahoma Opera & Musical Theater Company)
Junior Vocal Performance Recital: Click Here to Download Recital Program

2007

Pasatieri: Hotel Casablanca – Raul Perez (Regional Premiere – Oklahoma Opera & Musical Theater Company)
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci - Silvio (Partial Role, Oklahoma City University’s Opera Scenes)
Sullivan: Trial by Jury – Counsel (Light Opera Oklahoma)
Sullivan: Trial by Jury – Usher (Light Opera Oklahoma)
Sondheim: Sweeney Todd – Feature/Ensemble (Light Opera Oklahoma)
Herbert: Naughty Marietta – Feature/Ensemble (Light Opera Oklahoma)
Wilson: The Music Man – Ensemble (Light Opera Oklahoma)
Orff: Carmina Burana (Oklahoma City University Symphony Orchestra & Choir)
Nicolai: Die Lustigen Weiber Von Windsor – Herr Fluth (Oklahoma Opera & Musical Theater Company)
Nicolai: Die Lustigen Weiber Von Windsor – Dr. Caijus (Oklahoma Opera & Musical Theater Company)

2006

Wilson: The Music Man – Ensemble (Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players)
Bock: Fiddler on the Roof – Tevye (Cleburne High School)

2004

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance – Pirate King (Cleburne High School)

Musical Honors

2010: Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Young Artist Encouragement Award (Tulsa District, 2009/10)
2008: Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Trudy Oliphant Sundgren Young Singer Encouragement Award (Tulsa District, 2008/09), 3rd Place – N.A.T.S. Adjudications – University Level (Texoma)
2007: 1st Place – N.A.T.S. Adjudications – University Level (Oklahoma), Semi-finalist – Lois Alba Aria Competition, 1st Place – Ladies Music Club of Oklahoma City Scholarship Contest
2006: 1st Place – N.A.T.S. Adjudications – YM (Dallas/Fort Worth Region), 3rd Place – N.A.T.S. Adjudications – University Level (Texoma), University Interscholastic League (UIL) Outstanding Performer Award, Texas Music Merit Scholar, Honorable Mention (top 5% nationally) – NFAA Arts Award, Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) Arts Recognition & Talent Search Award, Texas All-State Mixed Choir
2005: 1st Place – N.A.T.S. Adjudications – YM (Texoma), 1st Place – N.A.T.S. Adjudications – YM (Dallas/Fort Worth Region), University Interscholastic League (UIL) Outstanding Performer Award, Texas Music Merit Scholar, Texas All-State Mixed Choir

Education

Oklahoma City University
B.M. in Vocal Performance
2010

Voice Teachers:
Dr. William Christensen (2006-Present)
Jack Coldiron (2005-2006)
Dr. Ensuk Yang (2003-2005)

Coaches:
Jan McDaniel (Present)
Mark Armstrong
Cathy Venable
Steve Kennedy

Conductors:
James Bagwell
Joseph Mechavich
Jan McDaniel
Dr. Matthew Mailman

Stage Directors:
Dr. David Herendeen
Michael Scarola
Carol Werner-Feiertag
Eric Gibson
Karen Miller