Faculty Bios
Codrut Birsan
Music Director
Born in Brasov, Romania, Codrut Birsan began piano lessons at age 6.By age 17, he was one of the accompanists for Opera Brasov.Birsan began voice lessons at Brasov Conservatory as a teenager, then transferred to Bucharest University of Music where he studied with distinguished professor Georgeta Stoleriu. While a voice student at the Academy of Music in Bucharest, Birsan was also a piano accompanist for the Academy’s opera class.Birsan moved to the United States in 2005. He obtained a Master of Music degree in Voice at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, while also collaborating as a vocal accompanist in that setting. Birsan has served as a piano accompanist/opera coach with the San Francisco Lyric Opera, the Livermoore Opera, BASOTI, and for the Opera Academy of California while also appearing as an improvisational classical pianist. In Madison, Birsan played for voice students at the University of Wisconsin and founded Candid Concert Opera (CCO). The mission of CCO is to broaden access to opera by removing both admission cost barriers and the “stuffiness” too often associated with the genre. In addition, this project gives young singers the opportunity to perform entire operatic roles. Birsan has continued to develop this company and works as musical director in the troupe’s performances, which to date include: “Die Fledermaus,” “Cosi fan Tutte,” “Elixir of Love,” “Don Pasquale,” “The Barber of Seville” etc.For the past few years, Birsan has focused on composition as well as performance. He was honored in 2010 with an International Emmy Award for his role in composing the score for The World According to Ion B., a documentary that originally aired on Romanian HBO. Birsan is a regular collaborator with the Chicago Lyric Opera. He has been the Music Director for the Lyric’s program “Opera in the Neighborhood” program, and most recently was the accompanist for Lyric Creative Consultant and world-renowned soprano Renee Fleming’s master class. Birsan also wears a number of hats as a musical instructor, ranging from “opera coach” to “piano teacher”
Emanuele Andrizzi
Master Coach
Educated in the rich musical tradition of the Rome's Conservatory as a conductor, composer, and pianist, Mo Andrizzi has become a versatile musician with a vast experience in the symphonic and operatic repertoires and a passion for the many areas of the musical arts. As a conductor, he has worked with various symphonic and operatic companies. In the past several years, he has conducted at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Diego Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Orchestra della Città di Ravenna, and Chicago Philharmonic, among others. He has also collaborated with important music festivals, including the Millennium Park and the Ravinia Festivals. Many international artists, including Ferruccio Furlanetto, Frederica Von Stade, Frank Almond, James Pellerite, and Joyce Castle have performed as soloists with Mo Andrizzi in concertos, operas, recitals, and recordings.
An active teacher and performer, Mo Andrizzi has worked since 2013 as the Conductor and Head of the Orchestral Program at the prestigious Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Mo Andrizzi is very passionate about his work with young musicians and has often collaborated with international artist programs, including the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Musica Lirica, and the Chicago Opera Theater Young Artist Program. In addition, he has guest conducted in various university music programs, such as at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, his Alma Mater, where he has conducted several operas, including a recent production of Poulenc’s The Dialogues of the Carmelites, starring the celebrated American mezzo-soprano Joyce Castle. Mo Andrizzi has clinic-ed and worked with music programs both in the US and in Europe, and has conducted the Illinois All-State Orchestra. Previous positions include Music Director and Conductor of the Cervantes Orchestra, Assistant/Cover Conductor at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Assistant Conductor at the Los Angeles and Dallas Operas.
Mo Andrizzi is a recipient of the Honorable Mention Award at the International Competition for Conductors of Contemporary Music “4X4 Prize” and a winner of the “P. Barrasso” International Competition for Chamber Music. He has recorded for Albany Records.
Born in Rome, Italy, Mo Andrizzi received a Diploma in piano performance from the A. Casella Conservatory, graduated in both conducting and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, and earned a DMA in Conducting Performance at Northwestern University. After leaving his native country, he lived and worked in both Portugal and Spain, before moving to Chicago, where he currently resides with his wife and kids.
An active teacher and performer, Mo Andrizzi has worked since 2013 as the Conductor and Head of the Orchestral Program at the prestigious Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Mo Andrizzi is very passionate about his work with young musicians and has often collaborated with international artist programs, including the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Musica Lirica, and the Chicago Opera Theater Young Artist Program. In addition, he has guest conducted in various university music programs, such as at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, his Alma Mater, where he has conducted several operas, including a recent production of Poulenc’s The Dialogues of the Carmelites, starring the celebrated American mezzo-soprano Joyce Castle. Mo Andrizzi has clinic-ed and worked with music programs both in the US and in Europe, and has conducted the Illinois All-State Orchestra. Previous positions include Music Director and Conductor of the Cervantes Orchestra, Assistant/Cover Conductor at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Assistant Conductor at the Los Angeles and Dallas Operas.
Mo Andrizzi is a recipient of the Honorable Mention Award at the International Competition for Conductors of Contemporary Music “4X4 Prize” and a winner of the “P. Barrasso” International Competition for Chamber Music. He has recorded for Albany Records.
Born in Rome, Italy, Mo Andrizzi received a Diploma in piano performance from the A. Casella Conservatory, graduated in both conducting and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, and earned a DMA in Conducting Performance at Northwestern University. After leaving his native country, he lived and worked in both Portugal and Spain, before moving to Chicago, where he currently resides with his wife and kids.
Yasuko Oura
Master Coach
Pianist Yasuko Oura has been praised for her sensibility and passion for collaborating with others. She has maintained a busy schedule of performing concerts and working for various opera companies while keeping an active teaching schedule. She is currently a lecturer of collaborative piano at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music where she enjoys working with talented pianists as well as coaching chamber music. Also in demand as a vocal coach, she is on the music staff for Des Moines Metro Opera and will be returning for her eighth season this summer. She also regularly works for Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theater. She has played under many prominent conductors such as Sir Andrew Davis, Stephen Lord, and Jane Glover. Additionally, she was the principal production pianist and coach for Florentine Opera for seven years. Her other past affiliations include companies such as Fort Worth Opera, Kentucky Opera, Madison Opera, Toledo Opera, and AIMS in Graz, Austria.
Her 2017-2018 season begins with recitals with Susanna Phillips and Myles Mykkanen at Twickenham Festival. She will return as the official pianist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Wisconsin District and the McCammon Vocal Competition in Fort Worth, TX, which will be followed by a recital with bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen. On the opera front, she will be working for Chicago Opera Theater’s production of Il Pigmalione/Rita by Donizetti and returns to Des Moines Metro Opera for Rusalka.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Oura has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Weil Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Merkin Hall. She is also the co-artistic director of Chamber Music at Bethany concert series where members of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, four-time Grammy award winning group Eighth Blackbird, and other prominent musicians come together to perform chamber music. She has also been seen in performances for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, the Bel Canto Foundation, WFMT, and WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. She resides in Chicago, where she works with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Grant Park Orchestra Chorus, Music of the Baroque, Chicago Opera Theater, Light Opera Works, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Wisconsin District. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and master’s and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School, where she was a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow.
Her 2017-2018 season begins with recitals with Susanna Phillips and Myles Mykkanen at Twickenham Festival. She will return as the official pianist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Wisconsin District and the McCammon Vocal Competition in Fort Worth, TX, which will be followed by a recital with bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen. On the opera front, she will be working for Chicago Opera Theater’s production of Il Pigmalione/Rita by Donizetti and returns to Des Moines Metro Opera for Rusalka.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Oura has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Weil Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Merkin Hall. She is also the co-artistic director of Chamber Music at Bethany concert series where members of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, four-time Grammy award winning group Eighth Blackbird, and other prominent musicians come together to perform chamber music. She has also been seen in performances for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, the Bel Canto Foundation, WFMT, and WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. She resides in Chicago, where she works with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Grant Park Orchestra Chorus, Music of the Baroque, Chicago Opera Theater, Light Opera Works, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Wisconsin District. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and master’s and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School, where she was a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow.
Elizabeth Byrne
Voice Teacher
Elizabeth Byrne has been seen as Senta in Der fliegende Hollander with Portland Opera, Arizona Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro James Levine. In operas from Wagner's Ring Cycle she has been seen as Brünnhilde in Siegfried with the Staatstheater Stuttgart, Brünnhilde in Die Walkre at the Austin Lyric Opera, Sieglinde Die Walkre in concert with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, as well as Gutrune and Gerhilde in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's first complete Ring Cycle conducted by Zubin Mehta.
Ms. Byrne has also covered the roles of both Brnnhilde in Die Walkre and Leonora in Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for San Francisco Opera. At the Metropolitan Opera she has been seen as The Duchess of Parma in Busoni's Doktor Faust and the Fourth Maid in Elektra and at the Lyric Opera of Chicago she performed the role of the Overseer in the Gtz Friedrich production of Elektra. Most recently Ms. Byrne was seen as the Witch in Hansel and Gretel with Indianapolis Opera, after previously having sung the Mother with the Phoenix Symphony.
An excellent musician, Ms. Byrne is noted for her performances of contemporary operas having sung the world premiere performances of the role of Blanca in James MacMillan's opera Ins de Castro at the Edinburgh Festival. The work was also performed in Glasgow and in Oporto, Portugal. Jonathan Moore directed the Scottish Opera production, which was broadcast on BBC-TV. In concert, Ms. Byrne has performed Mahler's Symphony No.8 at Royal Albert Hall and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 at Canada's National Arts Centre. She made her Avery Fisher Hall debut performing Zemlinsky's rarely-heard Lyric Symphony with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra. She has performed the Verdi Requiem with the Alabama Symphony and the Greensboro Symphony, Beethoven's Symphony No.9 with the symphony orchestras of Utah, Seattle, Richmond, and South Bend Symphony.
Ms. Byrne has also covered the roles of both Brnnhilde in Die Walkre and Leonora in Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for San Francisco Opera. At the Metropolitan Opera she has been seen as The Duchess of Parma in Busoni's Doktor Faust and the Fourth Maid in Elektra and at the Lyric Opera of Chicago she performed the role of the Overseer in the Gtz Friedrich production of Elektra. Most recently Ms. Byrne was seen as the Witch in Hansel and Gretel with Indianapolis Opera, after previously having sung the Mother with the Phoenix Symphony.
An excellent musician, Ms. Byrne is noted for her performances of contemporary operas having sung the world premiere performances of the role of Blanca in James MacMillan's opera Ins de Castro at the Edinburgh Festival. The work was also performed in Glasgow and in Oporto, Portugal. Jonathan Moore directed the Scottish Opera production, which was broadcast on BBC-TV. In concert, Ms. Byrne has performed Mahler's Symphony No.8 at Royal Albert Hall and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 at Canada's National Arts Centre. She made her Avery Fisher Hall debut performing Zemlinsky's rarely-heard Lyric Symphony with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra. She has performed the Verdi Requiem with the Alabama Symphony and the Greensboro Symphony, Beethoven's Symphony No.9 with the symphony orchestras of Utah, Seattle, Richmond, and South Bend Symphony.
Allan Glassman
Voice Teacher
Tenor Allan Glassman has thrilled audiences throughout America and Europe for decades with his vibrant timbre and committed interpretations of roles. Critics exclaim “his very presence on stage made those around him sound better.” A regular at The Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Glassman triumphed as Herod in a production of Salome and has since been heard in The Met’s production of Billy Budd as Red Whiskers; Die Frau ohne Schatten as The Hunchback Brother; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District as The Shabby Peasant; and in productions of Boris Godunov, The Great Gatsby, Carmen, Elektra, Káťa Kabanová, The Ghost of Versailles, Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, and Wozzeck.
Alexandra LoBianco
Voice Teacher
American Soprano Alexandra LoBianco is a consummate singing actress whom Opera Newspraised for possessing a “wonderful voice that should be heard in major houses.” She recently made her European stage debut in 2016 as Leonore in Fidelio with Wiener Staatsoper, and met with success as Turandot with Des Moines Metro Opera in the summer of 2017. Of her performance, Opera Today wrote, “Alexandra LoBianco is well remembered here for her feisty Minnie in a recent season. If Fanciulla is a Big Sing for the soprano, Princess Turandot is a Big Sing on Steroids… Ms. Lobianco is short of physical stature, but makes up for it with potent spinto vocalizing that has its own towering presence. As she kept pouring out laser-focused riddles, rising in pitch as well as intensity, we sat wondering: ‘Where is all that glorious voice coming from?’”
Ms. LoBianco returns to Europe in the summer of 2018 to make her Bayerische Staatsoper debut as Gerhilde in Die Walküre under the baton of Kirill Petrenko. In the 2017-18 season, Ms. LoBianco makes her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Helmwige in Die Walküre, returns to Seattle Opera as Aida, and makes her title role debut in Ariadne auf Naxos with Austin Opera. Her engagements in the 2016-17 season included a tour of Japan with Wiener Staatsoper as Helmwige, and she debuted with Florida Grand Opera as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, as well as with Dallas Opera as Miss Jessel in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.
In addition to performances of Fidelio with Wiener Staatsoper in the 2015-16 season, Ms. LoBianco sang Aida with Opera Colorado, Tosca with Minnesota Opera, and joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for its production of Il trovatore, as well as the roster of Santa Fe Opera for La fanciulla del West in the summer of 2016. Alexandra LoBianco has also sung Leonore and Amelia in Un ballo in maschera with Madison Opera, Minnie in La fanciulla del West with Des Moines Metro Opera, Tosca with PORTopera Maine and Grand Rapids, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Seattle Opera, and Magda Sorel in Menotti’s The Consul with Opera Santa Barbara. With Union Avenue Opera she has performed Brünnhilde in Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung.
Ms. LoBianco has sung in recital in Zürich, Columbia College (SC), and performed as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with Madison Symphony, as well as for Madison Opera’s summer concert series Opera in the Park. An advocate of music education, Ms. LoBianco is a respected vocal instructor who has mentored numerous students.
Ms. LoBianco returns to Europe in the summer of 2018 to make her Bayerische Staatsoper debut as Gerhilde in Die Walküre under the baton of Kirill Petrenko. In the 2017-18 season, Ms. LoBianco makes her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Helmwige in Die Walküre, returns to Seattle Opera as Aida, and makes her title role debut in Ariadne auf Naxos with Austin Opera. Her engagements in the 2016-17 season included a tour of Japan with Wiener Staatsoper as Helmwige, and she debuted with Florida Grand Opera as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, as well as with Dallas Opera as Miss Jessel in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.
In addition to performances of Fidelio with Wiener Staatsoper in the 2015-16 season, Ms. LoBianco sang Aida with Opera Colorado, Tosca with Minnesota Opera, and joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for its production of Il trovatore, as well as the roster of Santa Fe Opera for La fanciulla del West in the summer of 2016. Alexandra LoBianco has also sung Leonore and Amelia in Un ballo in maschera with Madison Opera, Minnie in La fanciulla del West with Des Moines Metro Opera, Tosca with PORTopera Maine and Grand Rapids, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Seattle Opera, and Magda Sorel in Menotti’s The Consul with Opera Santa Barbara. With Union Avenue Opera she has performed Brünnhilde in Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung.
Ms. LoBianco has sung in recital in Zürich, Columbia College (SC), and performed as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with Madison Symphony, as well as for Madison Opera’s summer concert series Opera in the Park. An advocate of music education, Ms. LoBianco is a respected vocal instructor who has mentored numerous students.
Nickolas Carlson
Conductor
Nickolas Carlson is the founder and music director for Central Kansas Concert Opera, a non-profit opera company with the mission of providing opportunities to young musicians. He received his Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from Wichita State University under Dr. Mark Laycock in the Spring of 2016. Nickolas was assistant conductor for four WSU Opera Theater Productions (Die Fledermaus, Don Giovanni, Cold Sassy Tree, and The Light in the Piazza), and music director for WSU's production of J.P. Rameau's Les Indes Galantes in the Spring of 2016. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance from Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS under Dr. Melody Steed. He has also studied organ and folk music at Musikhögskolan Ingesund in Arvika, Sweden.
Dylan Evans
Stage Director
Kaley Smith
Stage Director
Kaley Smith, originally from Potter, Nebraska. Kaley received her BM in Vocal Performance and BA in English Literature and Medieval and Renaissance Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2012. In 2014, she graduated from the University of South Carolina with her Masters of Music in Opera Direction. After moving to Chicago, IL, she began working with The Second City Touring Company as a stage manager, including the Holidays in the Heights Review Show in December of 2014. In the past two years, she has worked as a stage manager and assistant director with Opera North, Opera Saratoga, Opera Delaware, Opera Omaha, Central City Opera, Opera on the James, Opera Columbus, the University of South Carolina, and Indiana University. Last January, she directed Le Nozze di Figaro in Augusta, Georgia, and she has also directed remounted productions of Petunia and Jack and the Beanstalk with FBN Productions, Inc., a children’s opera company based in Chapin, SC.
Dmitry Glivinskiy
Resident Coach
Dmitry Glivinskiy is a Ukrainian coach and conductor. He has participated in many festivals and performed in venues such as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Ukrainian Institute among others around Europe and in China. He has performed with several orchestras in NY, including Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, Centre Symphony and South Shore Symphony.
He is a graduate from Mannes College of Music and of the Peabody Institute where, among his teachers, were Genya Paley, Pavlina Dokovska, Boris Slutsky and Scott Jackson Wiley. Dmitry has worked with numerous opera companies as a répétiteur, coach and conductor. This season, he conducted "Lucia di Lammermoor" with Regina Opera in Brooklyn, New York and was the associate music director for the New York revival of "¡Figaro! (90210)". This summer, he participated in the Classic Lyric Arts program in Novafeltria, Italy and served on the coaching staff at Chicago Summer Opera.
He is a graduate from Mannes College of Music and of the Peabody Institute where, among his teachers, were Genya Paley, Pavlina Dokovska, Boris Slutsky and Scott Jackson Wiley. Dmitry has worked with numerous opera companies as a répétiteur, coach and conductor. This season, he conducted "Lucia di Lammermoor" with Regina Opera in Brooklyn, New York and was the associate music director for the New York revival of "¡Figaro! (90210)". This summer, he participated in the Classic Lyric Arts program in Novafeltria, Italy and served on the coaching staff at Chicago Summer Opera.
Chao Gao
Resident Coach
Pianist Chao Gao is originally from China and was based in Singapore from 2006 to 2015. After graduating from the middle school of Tianjin Conservatory of Music (China), she was admitted to Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore) to study with renowned piano pedagogue Chun Yee Yu. She received her Master of Music from Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University, where she studied with Jorge Federico Osorio. While being a fine soloist, Chao has shown her passion in collaborative piano since her youth. She was holding the Collaborative Piano Assistantship in both undergraduate and graduate schools, and was the “best accompanist winner” of Tan Ngiang Kaw / Tan Ngiang Ann Memorial Vocal Competition (Singapore) in 2010. Currently, she is living in Chicago with her husband and 4-year-old son, and will pursue her DMA in Collaborative Piano in the fall of 2018 at University of Michigan studying with the renowned pianist Martin Katz.
Michael Pecak
Resident Coach
Pianist and conductor Michael Pecak has performed to great acclaim throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe on both modern and historical instruments. A musical home nurtured his early love of singing and especially for the myriad expressive inflections in Polish folk and traditional music he heard his father perform. During his piano and conducting studies at Northwestern (BM) and Indiana (MM) Universities, Michael cut his teeth in their opera departments and vocal studios as an accompanist, coach, and répétiteur. A Fulbright Fellowship followed, enabling Michael to spend a year at the Conservatory in Warsaw, Poland, where he explored the piano works and techniques of the Polish avant-garde while also collaborating with the school’s vocalists on Polish and American song projects. A chance encounter with famed fortepianist Malcolm Bilson inspired a turn from the new to the early. After a Fellowship year at Cornell University, Michael completed a DMA in fortepiano performance at McGill University with a dissertation on the music of Fryderyk Chopin. Michael has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium, as well as a guest lecturer at the Royaumont Fondation in France where he has presented on the music of Chopin. As a fortepianist, Michael has performed in the Vancouver Early Music Festival, the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, and the Festival de Musique Montreal Baroque. An ardent lover of opera and art-song, Michael has long enjoyed working with vocalists. A regular collaborator with soprano Hannah De Priest, Michael has made a special project of Polish art songs by F. Chopin and his teacher J. Elsner. The duo’s upcoming performances in the Midwest include a program of works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Michael teaches piano at the Northwestern University Music Academy, writes about opera for the online blog Schmopera, and is an active freelance conductor, pianist, and collaborator.
Maja Tremiszewska
Resident Coach
Native of Poland Dr. Maja Tremiszewska is a classically trained concert pianist, accompanist and music educator. She has been performing as a soloist and collaborative pianist since she moved to Boston in 2003, after receiving her Masters of Music in Piano Performance from Gdańsk Academy of Music in Poland. Upon completing a Graduate Performance Diploma at the Boston Conservatory, she was employed as a staff pianist for its vocal and instrumental departments, the position she held for ten years. In the spring of 2014 Dr. Tremiszewska graduated from Boston University with the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano, where she received a Graduate Assistantship, Dean’s Scholarship and a Collaborative Piano Department Honors Award. Between 2010 and 2016 she was employed to serve as a vocal coach and staff pianist at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, an esteemed summer program for high-school singers and instrumentalists.
As a freelance musician, she has performed in various venues, among them Jordan Hall, Berklee Performance Center, Goethe Institute, and Ozawa Hall in Lenox, MA, among many others. In 2005 she won first prize at the First International Chamber Music Competition of New England, and consequently performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In 2014 she also became a finalist for the New World Symphony in Miami, FL, during their national audition tour. In the summer of 2017 she performed Copland’s Rodeo with Boston Landmarks Orchestra under the direction of Christopher Wilkins.
During Dr. Tremiszewska's studies at Boston University she has frequently performed with its orchestras as an orchestral keyboardist and as a soloist. As a winner of the University Concerto Competition, she presented Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G at Tsai Performance Center. In the same venue she also performed Petrushka by Stravinsky with Boston University Symphony Orchestra under the baton of David Hoose. She also appeared as a soloist with New England Repertoire Orchestra under the direction of dr. Tiffany Chang, performing Chopin’s Fantasy on Polish Airs for piano and orchestra. With the Boston University Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Dr. William Lumpkin she performed in The Postman Always Rings Twice by Stephen Paulus, The Dialogues of Carmelites by Poulenc, Britten’s Owen Wingrave, Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito and Don Giovanni, Siren Song by Jonathan Dove, Florencia en el Amazonas by Daniel Catan and Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Dr. Tremiszewska frequently serves as a rehearsal pianist for Boston opera companies. As an Emerging Artist for Boston Lyric Opera, she served as a rehearsal pianist for the company’s production of Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress and performed recitatives on harpsichord for the same production at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theater. She collaborated with MetroWest Opera, Guerilla Opera, Boston Opera Collaborative and North End Music and Performing Arts Center. She has worked on productions of La Bohème, Carmen, Don Giovanni, L’enfant et le sortilèges, Little Women by Mark Adamo and Le Nozze di Figaro. In the summer of 2013 she served as a rehearsal pianist for Romeo and Juliet Project at the Chautauqua Institution. The summer of 2018 she will spend at the Miami Music Festival, as a vocal collaborative fellow, and at the Chicago Summer Opera as a resident coach.
Dr. Tremiszewska resides in Belmont, MA with her family and serves as a pianist/organist at St. Mary's of Assumption Parish in Brookline, MA.