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Mark Daniels, tenor

Mark Daniels is a versatile tenor who hails from Kennebunk, Maine. His early studies were with David Goulet in Portland, Maine, where he made his professional debut as Charlie Dalrymple in Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon. Mark continued his studies at the Eastman School of Music in the studio of Rita Shane, where he made his Eastman Opera Theatre operatic debut as Sam in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah. He performed the role of Ferrando in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in Urbania, Italy with Benton Hess’s Oberlin in Italy program and again in Buffalo, NY with Buffalo Opera Unlimited.

Other roles have included Danilo in Lehar's The Merry Widow with Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Nemorino in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore with the Genesee Valley Orchestra and Chorus, and Bingley in the world premier performance and recording of Amanda Jacobs and Lindsay Warren Baker’s Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Daniels was also the tenor soloist in J.S Bach’s Magnificat with the Finger Lakes Chorale under the direction of John Walker.

Great Lakes Productions created a show around Mark Daniels called “A Tenor,” which he performed for two years throughout upstate New York with “The Tuscan Trio and Two Sopranos.” He has been a featured tenor soloist in performances of Mozart’s Requiem and Haydn’s Lord Nelson’s Mass, at an Opera Under the Stars evening in Highland Park, at several recent Eastman School of Music performances and at Rochester’s Italian Heritage Day.

Rachel Magil, soprano

Rachel Magil is a lyric coloratura soprano from Rochester, New York. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Ithaca College. Rachel made her debut last Summer in Sicily as Violetta Valéry in Verdi’s La Traviata at the Mediterranean  Opera Studio Festival, conducted by Leo Catalanotto and directed by Jack LiVigni and Nelly Miricioiu. She also performed with the Rochester Summer Opera’s “Opera Under the Stars” as Musetta in a scene from Puccini’s La Bohème and as a soloist at the Lawn Concert Series at Innovation Square.

During the Summer of 2022, Rachel was a Young Artist at the Trentino Music Festival in Mezzano, Italy, performing the role of Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, conducted by world renowned Maestro, Arthur Fagen. In addition, she covered the role of Pamina. Back in Italy during the Winter of 2022, she was a soloist with the Italian Academy Orchestra at Teatro San Carlo, Arona conducted by Maestro Domino Cerutti, and also at the Teatro Civico di Vercelli.

Other roles and scenes include: Gilda (Rigoletto), Norina (Don Pasquale), Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), and Carolina (Il matrimonio segreto). Recently she debuted the role of Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale with the Taconic Opera Company, she performed in Buffalo Opera Unlimited’s performance of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and she joined Mark Daniels in recitals at the Century Club and Rochester’s Italian Heritage Day at the Public Market. This Winter she will be making her role debut as Berta in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Sarasota Opera as an apprentice artist. Currently, Rachel studies in Rochester with soprano Susanna Adams.

Rob Goodling, pianist

Although his professional career began as a violinist in the Elmira Symphony and Corning Philharmonic orchestras, where he was also the first conductor of the Corning Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the larger part of Rob Goodling’s musical life has been coaching, accompanying and training singers. Having taught music history courses at the Hochstein School of Music and Dance for twenty years, Rob was also the vocal music and choral director at Churchville-Chili High School for twenty-eight years, where many of his students went on to outstanding music careers, most notably super-star soprano Renée Fleming. His choirs consistently won state and national honors that resulted in their representation of New York State in international performance tours to Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy (where they sang for his holiness The Pope), Morocco and Spain.

Earlier listed in “Who’s Who Among America’s College and University Students,” his name has continued to appear in subsequent editions of “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.” M.I.T., SUNY College at Fredonia, and the Wenger Corporation have presented Mr. Goodling with Outstanding Music Educator citations; the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra named him their 1996 Outstanding Choral Director; and he was the first recipient of the Roberts Wesleyan College Outstanding Music Educator award.

Rob was named an affiliate Professor of Music Education at the Eastman School of Music, where he later served as editor of the opera department’s FEO Newsletter and performed the role of Gad Beck in the Eastman Opera Theatre’s world premier staging of Jake Heggie’s two-person opera, For a Look or a Touch.
 
In 2017, Mark Daniels and Rob began a partnership that has resulted in continuing recitals together in New York State, Florida, and Maine. One reviewer stated: “Having heard many concerts, what immediately grabbed my attention was Mark and Rob’s intimacy with their flawless sense of each other, AND conveying that to their audience. One was caught, drawn in, gathered up and surrounded by the passion of the music…and it is their genius and duality that is the magic.”

In January 2020, Mark and Rob released their first CD recording, The Lyric Tenor in Recital, and that December they filmed a Holiday Bravo Nights recital for the Rochester Opera Guild’s YouTube site. In 2021, they were featured in Rochester’s 585 Magazine and during the Rochester Fringe Festival, they performed in a ROC Opera’s “Opera Is Mad” film, with Mark singing the role of the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto. In 2022 they filmed a world-premiere performance of Stephen Shewan’s “A song of you and me,” and presented multiple Rochester sold-out performances. In 2023 they returned to Florida for an Encore Ilse Newell Forgotten Coast recital (which received three standing ovations), performed a homecoming recital in Kennebunk, Maine, and returned to Rochester for multiple acclaimed performances. This year they collaborated on performances at the Century Club, the Chatterbox Club, the Inn on Broadway, and a Corn Hill Arts Festival appearance that promoted the Opera Guild of Rochester!

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Students with proper ID: $25

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