James Dargan, Baritone

James Dargan is a polymath creative artist, athlete, polyglot, musician and writer, raised in the Deep South and–after a childhood spent at the Duke University String School and NC School of the Arts–educated in New and Old England. While at Boston...

Mariah Wilson, soprano

Mariah Wilson is establishing herself as an emerging performer, teacher, and conductor. She was first introduced to musical training at age 4 at the Paris Conservatory, and has continued her studies with teachers in France, Belgium, Germany and the United States. In...

Mozart: Four Winds

Mozart, unlike Berlioz, wasn’t given to obsessive self-editing or utter obliteration of his own early efforts. He simply churned them out, like the genius he was, and moved on to the next masterpiece. But of his more than 600 known compositions, it would be a...

Berlioz: An Extraordinary Find

“After this second trial I could not help seeing how little my Mass was worth; so, having extracted the Resurrexit, with which I was quite pleased, I burnt the rest.”  –Hector Berlioz, Mémoires (tr. David Cairns) The perfectionist young Berlioz used...