The Epiphany Festival

zarah brock, soprano

Zarah Brock, soprano, recently performed the solos in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Richmond Ballet and Richmond Symphony. In the summer of 2019, she completed her time as a young artist with the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario and as a fellow at the CoOperative Program in Princeton, New Jersey. Zarah has performed the roles of Annio/La clemenza di Tito, Soeur Constance/Dialogues des Carmélites, Hanna Glawari/The Merry Widow, Casilda/The Gondoliers and First Spirit/Die Zauberflöte. She has covered the role of Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and created the roles of the Chamberlain in an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Young King and Coretta Wilkins in Town Hall. Zarah trained at the late Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival for three consecutive summers and also had the privilege to travel to Oman with the Castleton Festival to sing in La Bohème at the Royal Opera House in Muscat. In the summer of 2017, Zarah sang Zerlina/Don Giovanni with the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and returned home to Virginia to sing Belinda/Dido and Aeneas with the Stafford Opera Troupe, where she also served as a faculty member. Other roles include Lucy/The Telephone and Don Ettore/La canterina with Olde Towne Opera. She has also been an emerging artist with Bel Canto in Tuscany as well as the Harrower Summer Opera and Atlantic Music Festival. Zarah is a native of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and is a proud graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University where she received her Bachelor of Music. Zarah also holds a Master of Music in Opera Performance from the University of Maryland where she was a member of the Maryland Opera Studio. Upcoming engagements include performing in a master class with soprano Lisette Oropesa organized by the Potomac Vocal Institute and participation in the Vann Vocal Institute in March. Zarah is thrilled to be performing with the Georgetown Epiphany Festival.

patrick kilbride, tenor

Praised for his "beautiful”, “sweet-voiced" and “vibrant” tone, as well as his “superbly acted” portrayals, tenor, Patrick Kilbride, is enjoying a flourishing international career. He pursued his undergraduate studies in voice at Northwestern University, and his graduate studies in opera at the University of Maryland Opera Studio. Additionally, he was a fellow for three summers at the Aspen Music Festival Opera Theater Center, and a Vocal Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. He made his professional debut in the United States in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with the Boston Early Music Festival.

As a winner of the 24th International Concours de Chant in Clermont-Ferrand, France, he made his European debut in Handel’s Acis and Galatea in 2015-2016 with Théâtre Municipal Montluçon, Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra Théâtre de Clermont-Ferrand, Opéra de Rennes and Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, under the direction of Damien Guillon and Le Banquet Céleste. Patrick returned to France in Summer 2017 to make his debut with Festival d'Aix-en-Provence as a resident of the Académie, in Francesco Cavalli's Erismena, with Leonardo García Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea. He joined the production’s 2017-2019 European tour, making his debut at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Théâtre Gérard Philipe Festival de Saint-Denis, and the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg. Spring 2018 marked his debut in the United Kingdom in Handel's Theodora with the Aldeburgh Festival in the historic Snape Maltings Concert Hall as a Britten-Pears Young Artist, under the direction of Christian Curnyn and in collaboration with Sarah Connolly.

Patrick made his debut at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Terrace Theater with Opera Lafayette in 2017’s An Evening of Monteverdi, and returned with the company to the Kennedy Center as Giove in Niccolò Jommelli’s Cerere Placata, and as Secondo Giudice in Alessandro Stradella’s La Susanna, a partner collaboration with Heartbeat Opera, which has been signed to Opus3 Artists for future touring contracts. Recent performances have included appearances with The Washington Bach Consort, Heartbeat Opera, and the role of Shepherd in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis with Thomas Dunford and Jean Rondeau at The Corcoran Gallery and El Museo del Barrio with Opera Lafayette. Upcoming performances include appearances with the Washington Bach Consort, The Cathedral Choral Society, and further performances of Erismena at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Portugal.

nicholas levy, tenor

Nicholas Levy is a tenor from Amarillo, Texas. He moved to the DMV in 2014 and studied voice at the University of Maryland with Gran Wilson, graduating in 2016. He served as a staff tenor at St. John’s Lafayette Square for 4 years and is currently the cantor at the Church of the Ascension St. Agnes. Nicholas is quite active in the DMV choral and chamber music scene, with numerous appearances at the Kennedy Center, Strathmore Music Center, and the Meyerhoff Concert Hall. In May of 2019, he appeared with the NSO and the UMD Concert Choir at Carnegie Hall. In addition to his singing career, Nicholas also works as a professional poker player.