[Guest Artist @ Vanderbilt University]

I am so excited to be spending a few days at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville to give a solo recital with Jennifer McGuire and teach a masterclass. Huge thanks to Amy Jarman and the whole team at Vanderbilt who invited me!

Incident, Hannah Kendall + Fleur Adock

Tesla’s Pigeon, Melissa Dunphy + Various Poets

Hvolf, Anna Thorvaldsdottir + Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir

Luonnon Kasvot, Kaija Saariaho + Pentti Saarikoski

Setting Sail, Juliana Hall + Emily Dickinson * world premiere *

Our recital was a HUGE success! Visiting Vanderbilt was pure joy!

Jennifer McGuire, Dashon Burton, Patrick Dailey + Jeffrey Williams.

Masterclass

[VALIS]

VALIS at the MIT Media Lab has been a total blast! Tod Machover’s music is some of the most compelling and soulful I’ve ever had the privilege of singing and hearing, and the whole team is a DREAM to work with!

Boston Globe Article
The Arts Fuse Review
Reimagining the Opera of the Future
SHOW INFO

The VALIS team

[On Site Opera Magic Flute]

I had a great time making my On Site Opera debut last week singing excerpts from The Magic Flute. I got to sing some First Lady and of course, Queen!

Thanks to my friend Sarah for getting this video and pics :)

[Queen of the Night with Mass Opera]

It is a true dream come true to make my Queen of the Night debut with Mass Opera in Boston, MA at the Modern Theater. Not to get too mushy about it, but I remember sitting on my bedroom floor as a little kid, “singing along” to recordings of the Queen’s arias, never even DREAMING that one day I would be on stage singing this iconic role. Huge thank you to Mass Opera and Dana Varga for giving me the chance to step into the Queen’s badass crown.

Here’s a fun clip from our Sitzprobe with Dr.Lisa Graham conducting.

[Music & Landscape]

It was such a blast returning to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to perform on a program featuring works that tie music with landscape. I was delighted to sing The Log House by Anton Heinrich as well as the prologue to Lully’s Alceste. I’ve never been on such an eclectic program, featuring composers from Stravinsky to Gluck, to Caroline Shaw. So…. when can we do it again??

“Soprano Maggie Finnegan soared through “The thundering Fall! The bubbling stream…Nature’s whispers…trilling arpeggios.” One of the poet’s other lines could describe her singing “With wild sweet play,” and I would offer with dazzlement musically and virtuosically.”
— David Patterson, The Boston Music Intelligencer