Roles:
-Zerlina, Don Giovanni, W. A. Mozart, Amalfi Coast Music Festival
-Poppea, L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Monteverdi, Amalfi Coast Music Festival
-Soprano Soloist, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, W.A. Mozart, Serenade! Washington, DC International Choral Festival
-Soprano Soloist,The Messiah, G. F. Handel, Arts by Good Shepherd
-Yum-Yum, The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan, Amalfi Coast Music Festival
-Dew Fairy/Sandman, Hansel and Gretel, E. Humperdinck, George Mason University Opera
-2nd Spirit, Die Zauberflöte, W.A. Mozart, Amalfi Coast Music Festival
-1st Tourière, Suor Angelica,G. Puccini, George Mason University Opera
-Soprano Soloist, Mass, L. Bernstein, George Mason University Singers
-Soprano Soloist, Mass in G, F. Schubert, George Mason University Chorale
-Soprano Soloist, A Ceremony of Carols, B. Britten, Miami University Choraliers
-Graduate/ Featured Soloist, Street Scene, Kurt Weill, George Mason University Opera
-Party Guest , La Traviata (Scenes), G. Verdi, Arts by George! George Mason University Opera
Anna has also sung in the chorus of Carmen, La Traviata, Porgy and Bess, L'elisir d'Amore, Street Scene, Die Zauberflöte, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Hansel and Gretel, La Boheme, Dido and Aeneas, Carmina Burana, The Messiah, Schubert's Mass in G, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Bernstein's Mass, and Mozart's Requiem.
Voice Teachers:
Beth Roberts (Mannes College - The New School of Music, New York, NY)
Elizabeth Bice-Cavalli (Vienna, Austria)
Dr. Seong Won Nam (GMU, Fairfax, VA)
Patricia Miller (GMU,Fairfax, VA)
Dr. Rick Novak (GMU,Fairfax, VA)
Dr. William Bausano (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio)
Elizabeth Freeman (Washington National Opera)
Coaches:
Raymond Brad Rinaldo (Fairfax, VA)
Nadezhda Peterson (Vienna, Austria)
Tatiana Andronikova (GMU, Fairfax, VA)
Rogelio Riojas-Nolasco (Amalfi Coast Music Festival)
Sean Kelley (Amalfi Coast Music Festival)
Michael Crabill (GMU, Fairfax, VA)
Donna Renfro-Williamson (Church of the Good Shepherd, Burke, VA)
Stage Directors:
Roger Riggle (Amalfi Coast Music Festival)
Maureen Codelka (GMU Opera, Fairfax, VA)
Conductors:
Petr Kotik (S.E.M. Ensemble)
Jeffrey Douma (Yale School of Music)
Joseph Walsh (Virginia Opera, Amalfi Coast Music Festival)
Victoria Gau (George Mason University Opera)
Stan Engebretson (George Mason School of Music)
Anthony Maiello (George Mason School of Music)
William Bausano (Miami University of Ohio School of Music)
Benjamin Olinsky (18th Street Singers)
Michael Horanski (Vienna Choral Society; Robinson Singers)
Seamus Kenney (PopUp Chorus)
Donna Renfro-Williamson (Church of the Good Shepherd, Burke, VA)
Related Experience:
Member of the 18th Street Singers in Washington, DC 2014 - Present
Scholarship Member of the Vienna Choral Society in Vienna, Virginia 2016 - Present
Performed a selection of Christmas carols live on the FOX television program "Good Day DC" with a small group of singers selected from the 18th Street Singers, December 2016
Performed a selection of Christmas carols at "Miracle on 7th Street" (the DC pop-up Christmas Bar) with a small group of singers selected from the 18th Street Singers, December 2016
Performed a selection of early Renaissance pieces with a small group of singers selected from the 18th Street Singers at the 2016 "Halloween at the White House" event.
Performed Yves Klein's "Symphony Monotone-Silence" under the direction of Petr Kotik, along with the 18th Street Singers and New Orchestra of Washington for the 2016 re-opening of the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art's East Wing (Read the Washington Post review here).
Judge and Guest Artist for the 2016 "Vienna Idol" Voice Competition in Vienna, Virginia
Backup singer for Damien Rice's 2015 Lincoln Theatre concert in Washington, DC
Performed several small solo concerts in churches and small performance spaces in Eastern Europe in the Summer of 2014 (Krakow, Poland; Kromeriz, Czech Republic; Skalica, Slovakia; Bratislava, Slovakia; Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Belgrade, Serbia; Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Sofia, Bulgaria)
Performed a small concert of German lieder in the 2014 and 2015 Oktoberfest Festival in Vienna, Virginia
Master Class Vocalist at the Konservatorium Wien (Vienna Conservatory, Vienna, Austria), multiple master classes, 2013
Singer for the 2012 Netherlands-America Foundation Awards Dinner in Washington, DC
Assistant choir director for the Church of the Good Shepherd in Burke, VA
Vocalist for 2009 master class by the late, world-renowned, Metropolitan Opera star Evelyn Lear at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA
Young Artist in the 2009 George Mason University Summer Vocal Institute in Fairfax, VA as a vocalist and master class participant.
Vocalist in the 2006 Virginia Ambassadors of Music (VAM) Youth Summer Choral Festival, touring 7 countries in Europe (England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Lichtenstein).
Education:
Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance
George Mason University School of Music
Fairfax, Virginia
B2 Österreichisches Sprachdiplom Deutsch
International Kultur Institut (IKI)
Vienna, Austria