2025 - wrapped!

Leafing through old programs to file away, and clearing my music stand out for new projects - I am ever-grateful for the people I get to work with, the music I get to perform, and the new experiences I gain every time I say "yes" to a project. I ended my singing calendar for 2025 with the excitement of singing a da capo aria with one run-through, being asked the morning-of to step in for an ailing colleague - Esteban Salas' "Toquen presto a fuego" is a delight, and though I would have been content to just sing it with the choir, it was my honor to make sure "The show goes on". . .

Among the other highlights for this calendar year - 

Vocalizing my joyful way through Border CrosSing's monumental performance of Osvaldo Golijov's Oceana - my first time at the Ordway Theatre in St. Paul (photo from the audience)

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FUN AND GAMES with music by Carolyn O'Brien in Evanston (photo by Carlos Reyes)

Eric Whitacre's Goodnight Moon with the Winona State Wind Symphony

John Corigliano's Fern Hill with the Rochester Symphony Chorale

ANIMAL SONGS in Pittsburgh and La Crosse

Visiting Washington's east side for the first time with Quince Ensemble (twice!) for shows with the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival

Visiting New Mexico for the first time with Quince Ensemble, on shows with Chatter ABQ

Damselfly Trio's return to Schweiz - with shows in Wittnau and Luzern's Galerie Vitrine (photo by ​Arthur Häberli)

Singing music by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon with Quince at Miller Theatre, and recording his Destierros with my dearest colleague-friends Amanda DeBoer Bartlett and Carrie Henneman Shaw, as well as our newest mezzo colleague (and old friend!) Clara Osowski

My first solo accordion gigs - recording the pit orchestra parts of "Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet" for an upcoming run at University of Northern Iowa, and supporting the Winona Project FINE's "Journey to the Alps" as a dirndl'd polka player 

Writing a chapter for the upcoming publication "Self-Accompanied Classical Singing: Reviving a Lost Art" - affording me opportunities to talk with some incredible performers and composers of self-accompanied song. 

Presenting on self-accompanied singing at the inaugural Cascade Song Festival - which leads into my first project of 2026, returning to the CSF to present on the treble voice music of Milton Babbitt. I'm happy to crack all those scores again, in order to share them with other song enthusiasts in Seattle this January.

It's been a very full 2025. In 2026, I'm looking forward to continued work with Quince, Border CrosSing, Damselfly, ANIMAL SONGS, and accordion/piano/clarinet/whatever instruments people ask me to play. . .nothing brings me more joy than such variety!​

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