Join Us For This Special Holiday Tradition!
Mark Daniels, tenor
Tenor Mark Daniels and pianist Rob Goodling are returning for their fifth Holiday Bravo recital. In 2017, Mark and Rob began a collaborative partnership that has resulted in more than forty often sold-out performances here in New York State and from Maine to Florida. One reviewer stated, “What immediately grabbed my attention was Mark and Rob’s flawless sense of each other AND conveying that to their audience. One was caught, drawn in, and surrounded by the passion of their music!” In 2000, they released their first CD Recording, The Lyric Tenor in Recital and in 2001 they were featured in Rochester’s 585 Magazine!
Mark Daniels is a versatile tenor who hails from Kennebunk, Maine. His early studies were with David Goulet in Portland, Maine, where he made his professional debut as Charlie Dalrymple in Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon. Mr. Daniels continued his studies at the Eastman School of Music in the studio of Rita Shane, where he made his Eastman Opera Theatre operatic debut as Sam in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah. Mark performed the role of Bingley in the world premier performance and recording of Amanda Jacobs and Lindsay Warren Baker’s Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice. He sang the role of Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in Italy as well as many other roles here in the USA. Mr. Daniels is in frequent demand as a soloist with various orchestras.
Jennifer Kayner Honan, soprano
Rob Goodling, pianist
Rob Goodling is a well-known Rochester teacher, conductor and accompanist. Having taught music history courses at the Hochstein School of Music and Dance for twenty years, Mr. Goodling was also the vocal music and choral director at Churchville-Chili High School for twenty-eight years, where many of his students went on to outstanding music careers. His choirs consistently won state and national honors that resulted in their representation of New York State in international performance tours that included singing for his holiness, Pope John Paul II. Mr. Goodling has received Outstanding Music Educator awards from the RPO, Roberts Wesleyan University, SUNY Fredonia, MIT and has been named in various editions of “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.
Soprano Jennifer Kayner Honan, a native of Rochester, currently lives and works in the New York City area as a freelance musician, teacher and vocal coach. Formerly a student of Rob Goodling at Churchville-Chili Senior High School, Jennifer later received her Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Roberts Wesleyan University and a Masters degree in Classical Voice from the Manhattan School of Music. She has studied with Dr. Jeffrey McGhee, Katherine Ciesinski, Joan Paternaude-Yarnell and Christòpheren Nomura. Her coaches have included Shane Schag, Alexandra Marcora-Naumenko, Scott Parry and, currently, Ted Taylor and Maestro Mirko Matarazzo.
These last few years have been especially busy for Jennifer. In June of 2023, she sang the role of Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone at Mexico’s International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia. In 2024, she performed the role of Dater 15 in Michael Ching’s opera Speed Dating with Buffalo Opera Unlimited, the role of Yvette in Puccini’s La Rondine at the Manhattan School of Music and she gave a recital of Charles Ives’ songs with Jazz pianist Lon Kaiser at Ives’ Danbury, Connecticut birthplace for the 150th celebration of his birth. In 2025, Jennifer performed at the Verdi marathon in Busseto, Italy with the Regium Lepidi Opera, she sang the role of Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen with the Clyde Opera in Glasgow, Scotland and last month she made her debut with the Atlantic Opera Company in New Jersey.