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Robert Allen tenor

Tenor Robert Allen is an active concert, oratorio, and operatic soloist. He has performed with orchestras and opera companies across central and northern New York, throughout New England, and along the Eastern seaboard.  Professional highlights include the roles of Cassio in Verdi’s Otello (for which he received the Syracuse Opera’s award for “Outstanding Performance by a Singer in a Featured Role” in 2005), Danilo in Lehar’s The Merry Widow, and Frederick and Nanki-Poo in the Gilbert and Sullivan classics The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, all with the Syracuse Opera Company. Other roles include Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, The Sailor in Milhaud’s Le Pauvre Matelot, and the Governor in Candide. Mr. Allen has been a featured soloist in many and varied concert and oratorio works including Messiah, the Christmas Oratorio of both J.S. Bach and Saint-Saens, Bach’s Saint John and Saint Matthew Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Saint Paul oratorios, the Mozart Requiem, the Verdi Requiem, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, and the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven.

More recently, Robert performed the role of Simon Rosedale in the world premiere production of Lily – A Musical Portrait with the Empire State Lyric Theater. The tenor is also featured on the CD release of Tales from the West Virginia Hills with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Grant Cooper conducting.

Robert has spent a large part of his professional career as a teaching artist,
presenting age-appropriate versions of operatic works and children’s fairy tales
set to music of great composers in schools and libraries across New York State
as part of the Syracuse Opera Ensemble, The Empire Opera Theater, and The
Oswego Opera Theater. He currently serves on the voice and theory faculties of
the Music Department of the SUNY College at Oswego, and is a sought-after
choral/orchestral conductor, choral clinician, and voice teacher.

Meet the Musicians

FIRST VIOLIN
Carmelo de los Santos
Karen McKinnon Concertmaster Chair
Sarah Tasker •••
Assistant Concertmaster
Ana María Quintero Muñoz
Joan Wang +
Heidi Deifel ++
Juliana Huestis
Barbara Rivers
Nicolle Maniaci
Barbara Scalf Morris

SECOND VIOLIN
Rachel Jacklin •
Carol Swift •••
Julanie Lee
Jessica Retana ++
Liana Austin
Lidija Peno-Kelly
Sheila McLay
Brad Richards

VIOLA
Laura Chang
Kimberly Fredenburgh •••
Allegra Askew
Christine Rancier
Laura Steiner
Michael Anderson
Lisa DiCarlo
Joan Hinterbichler
Laura Campbell

CELLO
Amy Huzjak
Jonathan Flaksman •••

Carla Lehmeier-Tatum
Ian Mayne-Brody
Dana Winograd
David Schepps
Lisa Collins
Elizabeth Purvis

BASS
Mark Tatum •••
Katherine Olszowka
Terry Pruitt
Marco Retana
Frank Murry

FLUTE
Valerie Potter
Esther Fredrickson
Jiyoun Hur ••+
Noah Livingston ••++

PICCOLO
Esther Fredrickson

OBOE
Kevin Vigneau
Amanda Talley

ENGLISH HORN
Melissa Peña ••+
Rebecca Ray ••++

CLARINET
Marianne Shifrin
Lori Lovato •••
Jeffrey Brooks

E-FLAT CLARINET
Lori Lovato

BASS CLARINET
Jeffrey Brooks

BASSOON
Stefanie Przybylska •
Denise Turner

HORN
Peter Erb •+
Allison Tutton
Andrew Meyers
Maria Long ••••

TRUMPET
John Marchiando
Brynn Marchiando
Sam Oatts ••

TROMBONE
Aaron Zalkind
Byron Herrington

BASS TROMBONE
David Tall +
Robinson Schulze ++

TUBA
Richard White

TIMPANI
Micah Harrow •+

PERCUSSION
Jeff Cornelius
Kenneth Dean
Emily Corneliu

Principal •
Associate Principal ••
Assistant Principal •••
Assistant ••••
Leave +
One-year position ++
Half-year position +++