Performances

I'm a bass-baritone, especially interested in Art Song and Opera. I have performed with the New York Opera Forum and in community theatre.

Solo Concerts

• October 2018 Sacred music, Spirituals, and Inspirational Songs
• March 2018 Butterworth's Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad and Ravel's Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
• October 2016 Selections from Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel and Schubert's Schwanengesang

Maggie's Little Theatre

• July 2018 Man of La Mancha (Padre)

New York Opera Forum

• September 2019
  Das Rheingold (Fasolt)
• June 2014
  Werther (Le Bailli)
• May 2014
  Aida (King)
• March 2014
  Walküre (Hunding)
• October 2013
  Carmen (Morales) / (Zuniga)
• August 2013
  Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio (Osmin)
• July 2013
  Rossini's La Cenerentola (Alidoro)
• April 2013
  Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte (Don Alfonso)
• March 2013
  Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment (Sulpice)
• December 2012
  Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro) / (First Speaker)
• October 2012
  Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur (Il Principe di Bouillon)
• September 2012
  Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Hans Sachs)
• August 2012
  Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore (Dulcamara)
• May 2012
  Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (Bartolo/Antonio)
• Feb 2012
  Gounod's Faust (Mephistopheles)
• Jan 2012
  Donizetti's Roberto Devereux (Gualtiero Raleigh)

The Gingerbread Players of St. Luke's Forest Hills

• November 2019
  Bernard Shaw's Getting Married (Bishop Alfred Bridgenorth)
• Fall 2018
  Macbeth (--)
• Spring 2018
  Little Women (Professor Bhaer)
• Fall 2017
  Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (--)
• May 2017
  Over There! A cabaret of WWI era songs, conceived and arranged by William Ryden
• Spring 2017
  Seussical (--)
• Fall 2016
  The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio)
• Spring 2016
  The Wind in the Willows (Mr. Badger)
• Fall 2015
  A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus)
• Spring 2015
  Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
  Music by William Ryden, book by Louise Guinther
• Fall 2014
  Three Sisters (Vershinin)
• Spring 2014
  The Boy Friend (chorus/Tango dancer)
• December 2013
  Nowell
  Based on the medieval mystery play "The Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors". Music by William Ryden.
• Fall 2013
  Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (Navarre)
• Spring 2013
  Bye Bye Birdie! (--)
• Fall 2012
  Molière's The Learned Ladies (Clitandre)
• Spring 2012
  Annie (Daddy Warbucks)
• Fall 2011
  Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch)
• Spring 2011
  Meet Me in St. Louis (Assistant Director)
• Fall 2010
  Pygmalion (Alfred Doolittle)
• Spring 2010
  Cinderella (Herald)
• Fall 2009
  The Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of Syracuse)
• Spring 2009
  Ragtags! (The Mayor)
  The Emperor's New Suit retold in 1910 America, set to a ragtime score. An original production by Milburn Smith and William Ryden.
• Fall 2008
  Aresenic and Old Lace (Mortimer Brewster)
• Spring 2008
  The Wizard of Oz (--)
• New Year's Eve 2008
  Die Fledermaus (Frank)
• Fall 2007
  The Importance of Being Earnest (Algernon)
• Spring 2007
  Sleeping Beauty (An old sage of the woods / Barbershop Quartet)
  An original production by Louise Guinther and William Ryden.
• December 2006
  Amahl and the Night Visitors (Chorus)
• Fall 2006
  As You Like It (Oliver/Amiens, singer)
• Spring 2006
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Mr. Salt
• Fall 2005
  G.B. Shaw's Arms and the Man (Sergius)
• Spring 2005
  Meredith Willson'sThe Music Man (Barbershop Quartet)
• Fall 2004
  The Fantasticks (Mortimer)
• Spring 2004
  Babes in Toyland (Tom Tom)
• Fall 2003
  The Two Cleopatras, from Shaw and Shakespeare (A messenger)
• Spring 2003
  Godspell (song - "All Good Gifts")