… because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” [Jack Kerouac]
Select Musical Accomplishments
Columbian Youth Choir . Golden Belt Vocal Festival . Flint Hills Masterworks Chorale* . “Side by Side” Summer Chorus** . Kansas State University Women’s Glee Club * Soprano soloist, European tour 2009
** Soprano soloist, Pergolesi’s Magnificat 2009
Donizetti’s Elixir of Love - Kansas State University Opera Scenes - chorus (2009) (Finalists in the National Opera Association’s National Convention in Atlanta, January 2010) West Side Story - Columbian Theatre - “Velma” and un-named Shark Girl (2010)
National Anthem vocalist - NATPA Regional Convention (3x)
Self-produced Christmas EP “Treetops Glisten”
Repertoire: Magnificat by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Great Day arr. Moses Hogan Medley from “The Secret Garden” by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, arr. Ed Lojeski Esto Les Digo by Lange Tantum Ergo by Gabriel Faure (Soprano II) (soprano soloist on all pieces unless otherwise stated)
Voice type: lyric soprano (range- approx. G3 to C6)
Influences: Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Leonard Bernstein, Christine Schäfer, young Barbra Streisand, Shaun Cassidy, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Jerry Lewis, Leontyne Price, Jennifer Knapp, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby
(Also) Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman
(Also) A. A. Milne, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Sayers, Ellery Queen
Hobbies / Activities: Writing, reading, piano playing, geeking, computing, obsessing over classic Hollywood stars, collecting LPs, used-bookstore shopping, coffee and tea drinking, star-gazing, Ebay-ing, baking goodies for my guy friends
Day Job: “Inventory Girl” at RB Outpost, Printer at CB Graduation Announcements, KSU Student
Bio
Birthday: July 22, 1989
Hometown: Blue Rapids, KS
Select Musical Accomplishments
Columbian Youth Choir . Golden Belt Vocal Festival . Flint Hills Masterworks Chorale* . “Side by Side” Summer Chorus** . Kansas State University Women’s Glee Club
* Soprano soloist, European tour 2009
** Soprano soloist, Pergolesi’s Magnificat 2009
Donizetti’s Elixir of Love - Kansas State University Opera Scenes - chorus (2009)
(Finalists in the National Opera Association’s National Convention in Atlanta, January 2010)
West Side Story - Columbian Theatre - “Velma” and un-named Shark Girl (2010)
National Anthem vocalist - NATPA Regional Convention (3x)
Self-produced Christmas EP “Treetops Glisten”
Repertoire:
Magnificat by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Great Day arr. Moses Hogan
Medley from “The Secret Garden” by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, arr. Ed Lojeski
Esto Les Digo by Lange
Tantum Ergo by Gabriel Faure (Soprano II)
(soprano soloist on all pieces unless otherwise stated)
Voice type: lyric soprano (range- approx. G3 to C6)
Influences: Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Leonard Bernstein, Christine Schäfer, young Barbra Streisand, Shaun Cassidy, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Jerry Lewis, Leontyne Price, Jennifer Knapp, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby
(Also) Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman
(Also) A. A. Milne, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Sayers, Ellery Queen
Hobbies / Activities: Writing, reading, piano playing, geeking, computing, obsessing over classic Hollywood stars, collecting LPs, used-bookstore shopping, coffee and tea drinking, star-gazing, Ebay-ing, baking goodies for my guy friends
Day Job: “Inventory Girl” at RB Outpost, Printer at CB Graduation Announcements, KSU Student