He is a tenor born in the Midwest who studied vocal
performance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music
with his graduation in 1996.He debuted in 1998 with the Wolf Trap Opera Company in Virginia, in the
opera Cosi fan Tutte where he played the role of Fernando and has since
gone on to appear in productions such as Treemonisha by Scott Joplin
with the Saint Louis Opera Company, The Messiah with the
Handel/Haydn Oratorio Society and the world premiere of Sacco and
Vanzetti by Anton Coppola stages by Opera Tampa. Gaining acclaim he has been a member
of The American Tenors, seeing success with them in their self-titled Top 5
chart album and has appeared nationally as a solo artist with the Kansas
City Ballet on three world premieres and orchestras such as the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, the National Symphony
Orchestra and the Irish Radio Orchestra.In 2005 he was honoured as one of the Alumni of the Year
by the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the following year he went
into collaboration and appeared all over America on the Mozart Was a
Punk: How to Make Classical Music Not Suck tour with the classical guitarist
Beau Bledsoe.In 2007 they
released their album Departure which has them performing songs and
works by a wide range of composers such as Puccini, Dowland and Villa-Lobos.2008 came along and her found
himself recording a CD of American spirituals in his grandmother's memory, being
the artistic director of Musical Theater Heritage and performing/leading I
Do! I Do!: A Musical About Marriage. He currently lives with his family
in Kansas City, Missouri.
