Maestro James Brooks-Bruzzese’s ballet experience includes:
Ballet Concerto of Miami 1985
Miami City Ballet 1987
US Synchronized Swimming Team 1990
Metropol Theater’s Dance Company of Berlin 1998
Berlin und Der Deutschen Staatsopher Ballet 1998
Pensacola Ballet 1994, 95, 96, 97, 2002, 03, 04, 05
Atlanta Ballet 1999, 2000
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He has collaborated with many soloists in performance with the South Florida
Symphony’s ballet season series, and with their summer music Festival.
Ballet Soloists/Companies Maestro has Collaborated with in Performance Include:
| Rudolph Nureyev | N.Y. City Ballet | ||||
| Gelsey Kirkland | N.Y. City Ballet | ||||
| Janie Parker | Houston Ballet | ||||
| Yanis Pikieris | Miami City Ballet | Gold Medal, Moscow | |||
| Pablo Savoye | N.Y. City Ballet | Silver Medal, Jackson | |||
| Marianna Alvarez | San Francisco Ballet | ||||
| Kevin Pugh | National Ballet of Canada | Silver Medal, Moscow | |||
| Anik Bissionette | Eddy Toussant Ballet | ||||
| Leslie Collier | Royal Ballet, London | ||||
| Patricia Miller | Joffrey Ballet | ||||
| Charles Hagen | Pittsburgh Ballet | ||||
| Joseph Malbrough | Chicago City Ballet | ||||
| Marielena Mencia | Chicago City Ballet | ||||
| Denis Ganio | Munich Ballet | ||||
| Jimmy Gammonet | Miami City Ballet | ||||
| National Ballet of Marseilles | |||||
| Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo |
ARTISTS WITH WHOM MAESTRO HAS WORKED PROFESSIONALLY
| SOPRANOS | MEZZO-SOPRANO | TENORS | |||
| Maria Aleida Patti Allison Donna Balson Cynthia Barnett * Judith Blegen * Harolyn Blackwell * Courtenay Budd Donna Casella Jeannette Ferrell Vicki Fisk Demetra George Evelyn Mandec * Aimee Marcoux |
Erie Mills * Deborah Milson Margie Nel Aviva Pelham Roberta Peters * Flicka Rahn Gail Robinson * Elizabeth Andrews Roberts Barbara Sternberger Cecelia Wasson |
Donna Balson Jane Ohmes Rose Taylor |
Eduardo Aladren William Burden Lievens Castillo Franc D'Ambrosio Leo Goeke Leonard Johnson Robert Jones Gary Lakes * Roger Lucas Roelof Oostwoud Gaston Rivero Eduardo San Emeterio Rico Serbo Jorge Antonio Pita |
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| BARITONES | BASS | ||||
| Sean Barker Rouel Beukes Marcin Bronikowski Karl Dumphart Dominic Cossa * John Fletcher David Ham Eric Hanson Alan Titus * Thomas Wittig |
McHenry Boatwright Andrij Dobriansky * David Evitts James Fleetwood Cody Garner |
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| *DENOTES METROPOLITAN OPERA* | |||||
| VIOLIN | CELLO | FLUTE | |||
| Aaron Rosand Peter Biely Roberto Cani Olivier Charlier Ewald Danel Glenn Dicterow Timothy Fain Florin Galati Christos Galileas Kosmas Galileas Xiang Gao Elisso Gogibedaschwilli Sidney Harth Chin Kim Sherry Kloss Sergiu Luca Xiao-Lu-Li Peter Michalica |
Elmar Oliviera Derek Ochse Laszlo Pap Alexander Proushinsky Philip Quint Jorge Saade Pablo Saravi Sergio Schwartz Wolfgang Sengstschmid Oscar Shumsky Joseph Swenson Miklos Szenthelyi Conrad Tao Peter Zazofsky |
Yo-Yo Ma Leonard Rose Endre Balog Alex Bouzlov Mark Drobinsky Yehuda Hanani Ofra Harnov Anna Litvinenko Lorne Munroe Janos Starker Paul Tobias |
Eugenia Zukerman Bernard Goldberg Lybi Bauer Marilyn Maingart Paula Robison |
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| ADDITIONAL ARTISTS & COMPANIES | |||||
| Dmitri Ashkenazy, clarinet Juan Castillo, oboe Retha Cilliers, bassoon Pierre Feit, oboe Elliot Fisk, guitar Paul Green, clarinet Leonidas Kavakos, violin William Molina, cello Katie Ott, harp Sergio Puccini, guitar Jean Reis, conductor Daniel Smith, bassoon Laura Wilcox, viola Gwyneth Wentink, harp |
Cirque de la Symphonie Carlos Jobim, Brazil Florida's Singing Sons Boychoir Girl Choir of South Florida Lydia Dubrovskaya Dogan Cangal Alex Kniazev Barlomiej Niziol Ekaterina Basanove |
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| PIANO | |||||
| Emanuel Ax Joaquin Achucarro Vovka Ashkenazy Gregory Allen Dickran Atamian David Bar-Illan Jonathan Bass Yefim Bronfman Cho Chi-Ho Robert Chumbley Javier Clavere Bella Davidovich Anthony di Bonaventura Misha Dicter Stanislaw Drzewiecki Francois Du Toit |
Jose Fegali Janina Fialkowska Yuval Fichman Ciro Fodere Catherine Foxcroft Nikcola Frisardi Arianna Goldina Enrique Graf Francois Guy Lorin Hollander Risa Horowitz Shirley Irek Eugene Istomin Joseph Kalichstein Renee LaBonte Christian Leotta |
Michele Levin Valentina Lisitsa Remy Loumbrozo Licia Lucas Petronel Malan Oleg Marshev Anton Nel Alex Podkorytov Antonio Pompa-Baldi Walter Ponce Michael Ponti Jorge Luis Prats Dmitri Ratser Santiago Rodriguez Ricardo Roel & Maria Laura Figilde Abbey Simon Gerald & Mildred Snyder |
Conrad Tao Chris Taylor Thomas Tirino Ana-Maria Vera Dan Wen-Wei Mark Westcott Velia Yedra Juana Zayas Mark Zeltser |
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| COMPOSERS WHOM MAESTRO STUDIED-WORKED WITH | |||||
| Harold Blumenfeld Washington University, St Louis, Mo. 1967-71 Hugo Weisgall Queens College, New York, 1970-71 Ian Hamilton Duke University, 1970 Paul Pisk Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. 1970-71 Mark Bucci International Composer 1970 Hank Levy Jazz Composer, Baltimore, Maryland, 1977 Mikhail Osokin International Composer, Russia 1988 Eduardo Magallanes Latin Grammy Award Winner International Composer/Arranger/Conductor, Mexico |
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| POP ARTISTS WHOM MAESTRO HAS WORKED WITH | |||||
| Mariah Carey Mitch Miller Phyllis Diller |
Vicki Fisk Carmen Cavallaro Doc Severinsen Kaye Ballard |
Kingston Trio Cab Galloway Billy Daniels Top Brass |
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| OPERA DIRECTORS WHOM MAESTRO HAS WORKED WITH | |||||
| Ignace Strasfogel - Metropolitan Opera, Augusta Opera Conductor Ian Strasfogel - N.Y. City Center, New England Conservatory Charles Kondek - Sara Caldwell Co., APA Phoenic Co. Dennis Rosa - N.Y. City Center, St. Louis Opera Co. Margaret Fairbank - N.Y. City Center, Augusta Opera Co. David Bamberger - N.Y. City Center, Augusta Opera Co Sonya Frisell - International Stage Director |
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| CONDUCTORS THE MAESTRO HAS STUDIED WITH | |||||
| Pablo Casals - Pittsburgh, PA Richard Karp - Pittsburgh Opera Company Leonard Slatkin - St. Louis Symphony Ignace Strasfogel - Metropolitan Opera |
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