Professional Ensembles
PRIZM Voice and Percussion Duo with Aaron Ziegler, Iowa City, IA. Fall 2012-present
PRIZMDuo is dedicated to expanding the repertoire of voice and percussion works by commissioning new pieces from young composers. To date PRIZMDuo has commissioned and premiered five works, including 200 Uses for a Paperclip by Jason Palamara, Bija by Brian Penkrot, Songs of Death and As We Continue Across the Country by Dr. Zach Zubow, and Patience by Sarah Modene. Along with commissioning new works, PRIZMDuo also creates their own arrangements of existing pieces for voice and percussion.
Regional Appearances:
New Music on the Point, Lake Dunmore, VT June 2017
Details TBD
PRIZMDuo October Festival of New Music, University of Toledo, Toledo OH, October 6th - 8th 2016
This program, hosted by The University of Toledo, featured several of PRIZMDuo's newly commissioned works. Each composer was onsite for lessons
with current University of Toledo students, and for general questions regarding their new pieces. During the week PRIZMDuo brought in Altus Flute Artist
Lisa Schroeder for a master class with the university's flute students, composer Zach Zubow from Queen's University for a lecture recital, and Soprano
Janet Brehm Ziegler, for a master class with select vocalists. The week ended with a concert open to the public featuring newly commissioned world
premiers.
New Music on the Point, Lake Dunmore, VT May 2015
This program is an intense performance workshop for composers and musicians of solely music of the 21st Century. While onsite I performed with the
JACK quartet members on pieces written by attending composers from around the world. Private Lessons with Jennifer Beattie and Phyllis Bryn-
Julson.
Soprano, The Vain Tree composed by Daniel Choi
Soprano, The Sudden Walk composed by Lu-Han Li poetry by Franz Kafka
Center for New Music, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. February 2013
Soprano soloist, Bija, with Percussionist Aaron Ziegler, composed by Brian Penkrot
Soprano soloist, 200 Uses for a Paperclip, with Percussionist Aaron Ziegler, composed by Jason Palamara
Center for New Music, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. December 2012
Soprano soloist, Forever and Sunsmell composed by John Cage
Composer’s Symposium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. December 2012
This workshop features newly composed works by university composers from several area universities. The idea is to gain exposure for your works and
to share ideas with other New Music composers.
Soprano, As we continue across the Country, with Percussionist Aaron Ziegler, composed by Zach Zubow
Center for New Music, conducted by Dr. David Gompper, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Fall 2011
Soprano soloist, Sappho Fragments composed by Steven Stucky
La Belle Musique de France, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo OH. April 2010
Soloist, Depuie le Jour, Gustav Charpentier
Haydn’s Mass in B flat with the University of Toledo Orchestra, Toledo, OH. December 2009
Soprano soloist
Operetta
Martha Ellen-Tye Summer Theater, Iowa City, IA
Lady Saphir Patience Gilbert and Sullivan July 2014
Fairy, Soprano Chorus Iolanthe Gilbert and Sullivan July 2013
Toledo Opera, Toledo, OH
Lead Soprano Chorus member Roméo et Juliette Charles Gounod October 2006
Mother and Soprano Chorus Madame Butterfly Giacomo Puccini April 2006
Soprano Chorus member Wagner Gala Richard Wagner February 2006
Soprano Chorus member I Pagliacci Ruggero Leoncavallo November 2005
Soprano Chorus Le Nozze di Figaro W. A. Mozart October 2005
Lead Soprano Chorus member Faust Charles Gounod April 2005
Martha Ellen-Tye Opera Theater, Iowa City, IA
Magda Sorel The Consul Gian-Carlo Menotti Fall 2014
The Friend Amelia Goes to the Ball Gian-Carlo Menotti Fall 2012
The Governess Turn of the Screw Benjamin Britten Fall 2011
