Not Quite Done With You

I realize I have sorely neglected my blog for awhile, but that's what happens when you're a full-time DMA student who is also working 30 hours per week. Even though I'm no longer doing an audition every week (decided to give myself a break and only take about 10 this season), I feel like I'm singing more than I ever have before. Between lessons, coachings, church gig, VAE, and 3 upcoming concerts for the Constella Festival ...
(check it out here: www.constellafestival.org)

 I am required to sing EVERY day, whether I feel like I'm at 80% vocally or 100. It's brought up my confidence and overall quality of performing. I'm not dreading audition season as much as I normally do, and am determined to enjoy Fall. Here's a plug for some upcoming gigs:

9/30: concert at CCM with VAE celebrating the life of late composer Elmer Thomas.

10/7: concert at Memorial Hall with VAE, 3pm

10/7: Lori Laitman's 6 Poems of Marichiku at the Northside Tavern in Cincinnati, 7pm

10/9: Performance of Nico Muhley's "The Adulteress" (originally premiered by Jessica Rivera, one of my favorite sopranos!) 7:30pm, NKU Digitorium, NKU, Hebron, KY

and a little ways down the road:

11/18: My first DMA recital! Works of Debussy, Stinson, and Rorem. 6:30pm, Knox Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati.

Now back to cranking out these wedding thank-you notes.