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Diana Tash, Mezzo Soprano Zachary Gordin – San Francisco Email: [email protected] Phone: (510) 332-7743 Diana Tash, mezzo soprano Opera Roles Mrs. Gleaton Susannah Festival Opera, Walnut Creek, CA 2019 Camille Claudel Into the Fire– Jake Heggie CA String Quartet, (Boston Court Theatre, Pasadena CA) 2016 Annina La Traviata Pacific Symphony, Carl St. Clair (Segerstrom Hall) 2014 Maiden Medea Long Beach Opera 2011 Medoro Orlando Sacramento Opera 2010 3rd Spirit, Papagena, and Zweiter Knabe Die Zauberflöte Opera Pacific, San Luis Obispo Opera & San Diego Opera 2008,1995,1990 Hansel Hansel and Gretel San Luis Obispo Opera 2006 Mercedes Carmen Los Angeles Opera, Placido Domingo 2004 Mastrilla La Périchole Long Beach Opera 2003 Ariane L’Abandon d’Ariane Long Beach Opera 2003 Oscar Un Ballo in Maschera Amato Opera, NYC 2000 Blonde Die Entführung aus dem Serail Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra and Los Angeles Opera 1998, 1995 Lucia The Rape of Lucretia Aldeburgh Festival, England 1996 Hilda Elegy for Young Lovers Aldeburgh Festival, England 1996 Gianetta L’Elisir D’Amore Los Angeles Opera 1996 Despina Così fan tutte Los Angeles Opera 1996 Elvira L’Italiana in Algeri Los Angeles Opera 1996 Frasquita Carmen San Luis Obispo Opera 1995 Yniold Pelléas and Mélisande Los Angeles Opera 1995 Atalanta Xerxes Los Angeles Opera 1995 Trainbearer Elektra Los Angeles Opera 1994 Sophie and Milliner Der Rosenkavalier Los Angeles Opera 1994 Barbarina and Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro Los Angeles Opera 1993 Oscar Un Ballo in Maschera Los Angeles Opera 1993 Paggio Rigoletto Los Angeles Opera 1993 Cis/Emmie Albert Herring Los Angeles Opera 1992 Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia Guild Opera Company 1992 Vox International Artists Classical Artist Management www.VoxArtists.com Zachary Gordin – San Francisco Email: [email protected] Phone: (510) 332-7743 Diana Tash, mezzo soprano Selected Concerts/Oratorio Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Korean-American Symphony, Walt Disney Concert Hall 2019 Bernstein at 100/ Israel at 70 Los Angeles Jewish Symphony 2018 Salute to Martin Luther King – Gershwin Colorado Symphony 2018 Bernstein at 100 Israel at 70 Los Angeles Jewish Symphony 2018 Rossini: Stabat Mater LA Dream Orchestra, Daniel Suk 2016 Musica Marin Music Festival Marin County, CA 2015 Festival de Mayo Guadalajara, Mexico 2014 Tash/Asawa Baroque Concert Boston Court Theater, Pasadena, CA 2013 Handel: Messiah Santa Barbara Chorale Society 2012 MAHMA Concert Series /Tour Malibu Friends of Music 2013 The Baroque Project w/Brian Asawa Los Angeles, San Francisco 2011/2013 Bach Magnificat/Mozart Requiem Santa Barbara Chorale Society 2010/11 Mendelssohn: Elijah LA Master Chorale, Grant Gershon (Disney Hall) 2009 Bernstein: Jeremiah Symphony Akron, OH Symphony Orchestra 2009 In Recital: Carnegie Hall/Weill Recital Hall Diana Tash in Recital, Armen Guzelimian, Pianist 2008 Art Song Concert Sundays Live at LACMA 2008, 2009 Chansons de Bilitis Jacaranda Music 2007 In Recital: Zipper Hall Colburn School Diana Tash In Recital, Armen Guzelimian, pianist 2006 El Niño (mezzo cover) Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen 2005 Haydn: Stabat Mater West Hollywood Chorale 2005 Song of Songs (Foss) & Souls on Fire Los Angeles Jewish Symphony 2004, 1998 Idomeneo excerpts & Coronation Mass Aspen Music Festival, Larry Foster 1990 Vox International Artists Classical Artist Management www.VoxArtists.com Zachary Gordin – San Francisco Email: [email protected] Phone: (510) 332-7743 Diana Tash, mezzo soprano Selected Awards Metropolitan Opera Western Regional Finals 3rd Place Los Angeles, CA 1992 American Educators of Italian Origin 1st Place Los Angeles, CA 1991 Liederkranz Competition Semi-finals New York, NY 1990 Peter Pears Memorial Competition Finalist London, England 1989 Vox International Artists Classical Artist Management www.VoxArtists.com Zachary Gordin – San Francisco Email: [email protected] Phone: (510) 332-7743 Diana Tash, mezzo soprano Mezzo-Soprano Diana Tash appears internationally in both operatic roles onstage and as a featured soloist. Ms. Tash and the late, renowned counter- tenor Brian Asawa released their Baroque duet album “Spirits of the Air” in October 2014, preceded earlier that year with a tour that included dates in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Mexico, the latter at Guadalajara’s famed Teatro Degollado for the annual Festival de Mayo celebration. Teamed with famed pianist Armen Guzelimian, performances have included solo recitals for Santa Barbara Opera in December 2011, and at Carnegie Hall in 2008, as well as Los Angeles’s Zipper Hall in 2006, from which a live recording, “Diana Tash, in Recital” was released in 2009 with LML records. Ms. Tash’s mezzo stage work has been hailed as “radiant” by the Los Angeles Times and “skillful” by the New York Times. Her solo work includes Mendelssohn’s ‘Elijah’ with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Jeremiah Symphony’ with the Akron Symphony in Ohio in 2009. Ms. Tash was a Resident Artist with LA Opera from 1992 to 1996, singing with some of the major singers and conductors of our time. In a return to LA Opera in 2004, she sang Mercedes in ‘Carmen’ with Maestro Placido Domingo, and sang with both San Diego Opera and Opera Pacific in 2006 and again in 2008 in Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’. She has also performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in England with Maestro Stuart Robinson, and at the Aspen Festival with Maestro Lawrence Foster. In 2016, Ms. Tash performed at the Boston Court with the California String Quartet in a semi- staged performance of Jake Heggie’s ‘Camille Claudel: Into the fire’, as well as with Music Mar- in with NY Philharmonic Violist Cynthia Phelps in concert. She is a winner of the Western Re- gional Metropolitan Opera Finals, and has also been heard with the Pacific Symphony as Anni- na in ‘La Traviata’ in 2014, as well as with the Debussy Trio performing the music of Ian Krouse. She joined the Santa Barbara Choral Society in Handel’s ‘Messiah’ in 2012, in Sacra- mento Opera’s ‘Orlando’ as Medoro in 2010 and in Long Beach Opera’s ‘Medea’ in February 2011. Ms. Tash has also toured with composer Maria Newman and her Viklarbo String quartet in September 2013. Most recently, on July 12th and 14th of 2019, Ms. Tash performed the role of Mrs. Gleaton in Festival Opera’s production of Carlisle Floyd’s ‘Susannah’. On August 17, 2019, Ms. Tash will perform the Beethoven 9th Chorale as the mezzo soloist with the Korean- American Symphony at Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall. Vox International Artists Classical Artist Management www.VoxArtists.com .
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