In a nutshell...

Aloha folks...welcome welcome...

Soooo.....I probably won't go into extreme detail right now about how I got the opportunity to come to Hawaii for 3 weeks to sing because I want to catch you guys up on the more interesting details of my trip.

In a nutshell, I am a singer (developing artist) in the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival because of one of the voice faculty members who found one of my youtube videos "Joy" by Ricky Ian Gordon, and contacted me about applying to participate in this year's festival. I am assuming the voice teacher youtube-stalked Gordon and not me, but according to some colleagues, my video shows up 3rd in the list, so I guess that's where I became relevant. You're probably wondering what Gordon has to do with any of this...well he is going to be the Composer-in-residence at the festival this year - working one-on-one with singers at some point and coaching & directing his new opera Grapes of Wrath (concert version, I think). So I checked out the program details to see what else there was to do here - it's quite a musically versatile program so I decided to apply in Jan or Feb...I was accepted with scholarship and now *poof* here I am in July on the big island singing my little heart out. That's the nutshell...

Scoop on my flight over here, first few days, etc. to come shortly. (I'm debating on sharing a secret that I would like to keep suppressed, but it plays a big role in some events that took place...so we'll see).

Mahalo for reading!!

aloha.