the Chautauqua institution - 2023
Auditioned tenor in the Motet Choir under Director of Sacred Music, Joshua Stafford.
Western NY, USA.
2 week appearance. August 12-August 27, 2023.
David Sings NYE - 2022
SOLD OUT showing of 90 minute three piece semi-tribute Elton John show.
David Widder-Varhegyi on Vocals and Keyboard, with Isa Campbell on Bass and John McFarland on Drums.
Complete with angel wings, a top hat, and astronaut helmet. 12 minute all out dance party encore of "Crocodile Rock" until midnight.
David Sings MT - 2022
13 song Musical Theatre Review and Halloween Night Masquerade.
Backed by a three piece band (Nicholas Reidmiller, Sav Nelson, Bob Troeger).
Music from shows “Cabaret,” "The Drowsy Chaperone," "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "The Full Monty," "The Bridges of Madison County," "Into the Woods," "Les Miserables," "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Next to Normal," "Diamonds," and "Hamilton."
New Musical - studio vocalist - 2022
With the help of the Ghost of Moses, a driven evangelist named Aaron Van Kesper races against time to save the world from hell — that is, until the COVID-19 shutdowns of March 2020, when Aaron's wife Flora asks him to plant a garden with her.
In 12 songs and 1 act, this original, sung/rapped-through, intricately-crafted, Lenten musical draws on the Exodus narrative to express how the technologies that augment our powers can also blind us to the gift of our embodied limitations and our spiritual interdependencies.
hardheartPhone is a completed studio album in its final stages of mixing and mastering.
CS Music Vocal Competition - 2022
CHICAGO - 2nd round performer.
Workshops with Darin Adams, Ben Cameron, Dan Kitzman, Nathan Gunn
Classical Recital - 2022
"Seven Elizabethan Lyrics" from 20th century composer Roger Quilter's. Accompanied from the piano by Robert F. Troeger.
Organized readers to present the poetry of each song before singing.
Closed with "The Ballad of Fair Ellender," an a cappella 16th century song which saw a revival in 20th century Appalachian circles.
8 April, 2022
Beautiful city - 2022
Featured Soloist
A Benefit Concert for Ukraine: St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Wheeling, WV, USA
Stephen Schwartz’s “Beautiful City,” from the musical, “Godspell.”
with Robert F. Troeger, Piano
5 April, 2022
What sweeter music - 2021
Featured Soloist - Angel Gabriel St. Matt’s Choir - Tenor
Christmas Cantata by composer Timothy Amukele:
Narrator - Malachi dré Beasley Featuring - Edward Washington II, tenor Featuring - Robert F. Troeger, piano With - Olivia Kiger-Camilo, dance
21 December, 2021
David Sings Elton - 2021
First official public performance since university: a fully costumed and creatively lit concert featuring 12 Elton John songs, with Shane Musgrove on the drums.
Set list consists of well known hits like "Rocketman," "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters," "Bennie and the Jets," "Your Song," etc.
OH, and I propose to my (now) wife at the end…
25 September, 2021
Beethoven Mass in C - 2019
St. Matthew’s Festival Choir - Tenor
Featuring soloists: - Jennifer LaRocco - Marianne Cornetti - Edward Washington II - Miles Wilson-Toliver
with St. Matthew’s Festival Orchestra and Conductor Andrea Raphael