More new photos from Russia!!

Laura Marie Duncan took the following shots in St. Petersburg...
Here I am singing at the Grand Hotel Europe:

Photos from Russia

Photos from the Canyon Cub show

Here are some photos my dear friend Laura Cozzi took at the Canyon Club show in October....

My Trip to Russia!

I just returned from a 2-week trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, where I performed at the Grand Hotel Europe with my dad and two Russian jazz players. What an experience!! I'll post photos shortly (I took over 800 photos, so I need to go through them all and choose the best ones).
I went on this trip with 8 other singers, all from New York, and all established singers on Broadway, all as part of the "St. Petersburg Young Artist Alliance", headed up by the amazing George White (who has too many titles, responsibilities, and jobs to list). While the other singers put on two amazing shows of Broadway tunes to honor the late Russian composer Andrei Petrov (entitled "Andrei & Broadway" and directed by Tony Winner Ted Sperling), I had my own show of jazz standards, selections from "Somewhere in this Room", and Russian tunes (yes, I managed to sing in Russian!) at the Grand Hotel Europe.
Over the period of two weeks, we visited (and sang at) the American Consulate, the home of a Georgian Prince, and the apartment of a very famous Russian actress named Anastasia Melnikova. I also got to see the Hermitage, The Russian Museum, The Pushkin Apartments Museum, the Marinsky Theatre (for a ballet performance of "Romeo and Juliet"), and a Russian stage production of Chekov's "Uncle Vanya". I saw the Church of the Spilled Blood (built on the site where Tsar Alexander II was murdered), St. Isaac's Cathedral, The Yusopov Palace (where Rasputin was murdered...we even went to the basement to see where it happened), we walked up and down Nevsky Prospect, and now I know how all those great Russian novels were created. I have a lot of reading to do!
The talent in this city is amazing. The singers I encountered in St. Petersburg were nothing short of amazing. We stayed right by the Musical Conservatory, so all the waiters at the local restaurant were singers...they broke into Russian Folk Songs (sung operatically) every few hours. There were some Russian singers who sang in the chorus of the "Andrei & Broadway" who could really rip your heart out with their soulfullness. One of the singers had the highest, most gorgeous soprano I think I've ever heard, and I have a feeling all of us will be hearing from her soon in the USA!
More later...so much to write about, so much to share...I'll just have to post those photos. Stay tuned.....