Tierney Bamrick (Grace) is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. She holds a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Vanderbilt University and completed her master’s degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2011. She was a finalist in this year’s Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition, finishing in the top ten competitors in the state. Tierney has had the privilege of performing several opera roles, including Elmire in Kirke Mechem’s Tartuffe, Pappagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Anna Maurrant in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene. She has performed in master class for several prominent musicians, including Jennifer Larmore, Ian Bostridge, Bo Skovhus, and Margot Garrett, and presented recital in the US and abroad. Tierney is passionate about new works and is honored to be a part of this production!
Jessi Francis Goebel (Izzy) Jessi Goebel is completing a master’s degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder, this May as a student of mezzo-soprano Julie Simson. Roles at CU include Julie Jordan in Carousel, Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, soloist in Bernstein’s MASS, and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. Ms. Goebel is also the student manager of, and performs with, the CU Opera Theater Singers, an outreach group that travels
Colorado spreading a passion for opera. Prior to moving to Boulder, Ms. Goebel earned a bachelor’s degree from Manhattan School of Music in New York. While at MSM, she sang in numerous scenes and recital programs, and had the opportunity to sing the role of Eurilla in the U.S. premier of Händel’s opera Il pastor fido. Always the adventurer, Ms. Goebel has sung in venues around the world, including recitals in Oslo, Norway and Salzburg, Austria, and as a soloist with world-renowned choral composer and conductor Eric Whitacre in Beijing, Xi’an, Suzhou, and Shanghai, China. Ms. Goebel has won numerous awards and scholarships, including two at CU: the Anthony and Dorothy Riddle Lyric Theater Performance Prize (2010-2011), and the Nancy and Ted Anderson Scholarship (2011-2012). Ms. Goebel was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, though she now considers NYC home.
Lillie Jayne (Josie/Director)
is a New York City based artist who works mainly in the realms of music
and performance. She and Michael O'Dell met when they collaborated on
her musical play Poppy! An Enchanted Evening with Poppy Bulova
produced by the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, which won
top reviews across major publications in New York. In addition to her
theatrical work on original plays with various collaborators, she has
written and performed music with several music projects in New York, and
currently writes and performs with her bands I Feel Awesome, Ecstatics,
and Cellular Chaos.
Garrett Smith (GG) is a 2009 alumnus of CU with a BM in Voice performance. He currently teaches voice and piano lessons, and has a private Rolfing practice for which he trained at the Guild for Structural Integration here in Boulder. He is also currently taking pre-med classes at CU with the intention of going to medical school for a Doctor in Osteopathy, and currently a member of Logo Ligi, traditional West African Dance group with whose leaders he studied in Ghana, West Africa. Each semester Garrett assists as a TA in CU's West African Highlife Ensemble. A student of yoga and meditation, Garrett believes that the world's problems will be solved through simplifying our lives to doing just what we love, and what makes us healthy, even if that happens to be a lot of stuff! He hopes to bring this joy, love of life, and the practice of listening to one's own heart from a practice on the stage into the medical field. Performances in which Garrett has been involved include Young Casanova in Casanova at Twilight (2011), Job in Three Vignettes of Job (2011), The Doctor in Grand Hotel (2010), Leporello in Don Giovanni (2010), Superintendent Bud in Albert Herring (2009), Maximilian in Candide (2009), Benoit and Alcindoro in La Boheme (2008), Action in West Side Story (2007), the Emcee in Cabaret (2006). Garrett currently lives in North Boulder with his 3 friends, 3 cats and multitude of plants.
