Pianist Tamara Cashour enjoys an active career as an assistant conductor, musical director, vocal coach and recitalist, as well as music educator.  

2006 Schedule: February 2006, Production of Il Trovatore with artists from Opera in the Heights, dates and locations TBA, Tamara Cashour, pianist/conductor. Manhattan School of Music Recitals: February 19, 2006, Allegra Offenberg, soprano, 8 p.m. Greenfield Hall; April 8:  Sarah Newman, soprano, 9 p.m. Greenfield Hall.

2005 Schedule:
December 2005: Golden Fleece Ltd. performs SONG NY, including songs of Tamara Cashour; Recital with Judith Kellock, soprano at Jewish Y, Jackson Heights. Rehearsal pianist: Piccolo Spoleto U.S.A.'s production of Abduction from the Seraglio;  January - April, 2005, Art Song recitals with students from the Manhattan School of Music;  June-July, 2005:  Vocal Coach-Recitalist-Rehearsal pianist for Artistic Repertory Theatre, Orlando, Florida--productions of Candide, Opera Scenes and Recitals in various venues in Kissimmee and Orlando; August 2005:  Recital of All-American contemporary music with Marianne Labriola, soprano, at St. Jacobi Recital Series, Sunset Park, Brooklyn; December 2005:  Performances of Ms. Cashour's art songs by Golden Fleece Ltd. Opera Company in their Song New York series of New York composers.  

U.S. Regional/European Opera:
Coach/accompanist: Lake George Opera, Indianapolis Opera. Music Director of Young Artists Program: Natchez Opera Festival. Faculty positions: New Opera Festival di Roma (summer 2003) and Opera Festival di Roma (Opera Estate) 1999, as role coach/diction instructor and coach/recitalist, respectively. Performance/rehearsal pianist/conductor: Opera Camerata, Amato Opera, Franklin Lakes Concert Series, Genesis Opera Repertory Ensemble, Garden State Opera, La Piccola Scala, Pacific Opera, Operesque Classical Concerts. Chorus Master/rehearsal pianist: Regina Opera; Musical Director: Naomi Music Productions.

Recitalist: An active and seasoned recitalist, Ms. Cashour made her Carnegie Weill Hall accompanying debut in February 2002 with soprano Jacqueline George. In 2004, Ms. Cashour performed new song works and world premieres by John Harbison, Dorothy Chang, Antonio Carlos Defeo (in residence) and Roland Leich in conjunction with SONGFEST, an art song festival held annually at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. Ms. Cashour was personally selected by Mr Harbison to perform selections from his song cycle "Simple Daylight" in his Composer Forum Series at SONGFEST. In the same venue she performed in recitals and masterclasses of French and American song, hosted by noted accompanist Martin Katz. Ms. Cashour has a distinct and sincere interest in contemporary music and new music by living composers, and has also collaborated with composers at Columbia University as well as the Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Cashour regularly concertizes with New York area singers, as well as singers on the US regional circuit. Major recital venues in addition to Weill include: Manhattan School of Music, New York's Christ and St. Stephens Church, Indianapolis Artsgarden, Penrod and Carmel Arts Festivals, the lecture series at the Indianapolis Symphony, the Natchez, MS plantation recitals series, and, in conjunction with Opera Estate, the San Paulo Entro le Mura Anglican church in Rome, Italy. The latter recital was covered live on Italian television.   

Symphonic rehearsal/orchestral pianist:
Ms. Cashour has also worked with several area symphonies, preparing solo instrumentalists for concertos and opera ensembles/arias. She has prepared soloists in Elgar's Cello Concerto and Mozart's Exultate jubilate for the Bronx Symphony Orchestra, as well as Wotan's Fire Music/Farewell and scenes from Otello for the Hawthorne Symphony. Ms. Cashour has also been orchestral pianist for the Regina Opera.

Academic positions: Ms. Cashour has been on the vocal coaching staff of the Manhattan School of Music since 1999. She is currently on the vocal teaching staff of Worth-Tyrell School of Performing Arts in Morristown, NJ, Stars Theatre Academy in Warrenville, NJ, as well as Dance World Academy in Passaic, NJ, where she also instructs in piano. Formerly, Ms. Cashour was on the vocal coaching staff of the Actors Studio M.F.A. Degree Program at New School University, and was auditions pianist at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Musical Theatre Training Program for one season.

Known also for her work with children and teenagers, Ms. Cashour has also been Music Director of West Orange Youth Conservatory in West Orange, NJ, and Head of Voice Faculty at the Garden State Academy of Music in East Rutherford, NJ, where she taught children ages 5 through 18, as well as adults. Ms. Cashour is a specialist in the training of musical theatre singers, in the "belt", "mix" and "legit" techniques; all of which Ms. Cashour has sung in her career, which is now primarily as a singer of opera (see: www.ramonalsina.org/ Artists for Ms. Cashour's resume as a singer). In January, 2003, Ms. Cashour's vocal teaching and accompanying were featured on the national ABC News Program "20/20". Ms. Cashour has also taught piano and voice at The School of Theatre Arts at JCC on the Palisades, JCC on the Hudson and at the Calderone School of Music in East Hanover, N.J.

Master Class Accompanist: Ms. Cashour has also been a master class accompanist, accompanying the master classes of Joan Dornemann, William Warfield, Ann Baltz and Ellen Rievman, and most recently, Martin Katz, Timothy Noble and Amy Johnson.

Education and Related Activities: Ms. Cashour holds a Bachelors of Music Theory from Columbia University and a Masters in Opera Directing and Production (with a concentration in feminist musicology/theatre and avant-garde theatre/performance studies) from the Gallatin School of Interdisciplinary Studies at New York University. Trained in stage directing, Ms. Cashour wrote, produced and directed a deconstructionist version of Poulenc's LA VOIX HUMAINE, which utilized Ms. Cashour's new English translation of that opera. This production premiered at NYC's Wings Theatre in May, 1998. Ms. Cashour also sang the lead of Elle in that production. She has written English translations of opera, program notes, and has prepared and presented academic research papers on topics in musicology and opera. Her Master's thesis, Deconstruction of Female Subjectivity in Opera, was chosen for presentation at the 1997 National Women's Studies Association Annual Convention in both the performance and written divisions.

Recording Artist: Ms. Cashour is also a CD recording artist and art song composer. Recent recordings include "An American Timeline: Songs of Hopkinson, Foster, Niles and Baber, with soprano Charis Strange, and a recording of Kreisler pieces with violinist Sophie Vargas. Ms. Cashour has premiered her own art songs in various recitals, both as a singer and pianist.  Selections from her art song collections were featured at the 2002 "Arias and Sonnets" Festival at Cami Hall sponsored by the Genesis Opera, and continue to be performed by both student and professional recitalists as well as on noted concert series.

Ms. Cashour's secondary vocation is as a poet; her first book of collected poems: THE BLUE HOUR, was published in December 2005.