2 0 0 5. An unforgettable year of Gigs, music study and practice. Pre-South Pacific 2007.

(My voice instructor, Ms. Zoraida Lopez and me - I.V.A.I. July 2005)

During the year 2005, I not only performed as keyboardist with Puerto Rico's hottest party band, KAMALEON, I also attended the I.V.A.I. Opera Camp as an authorized observer during July with master classes under the likes of Sherryl Milnes and Joan Dornemann (with whom I auditioned by the way) from the New York MET and also received personal voice lessons and coaching from legendary teacher of the Conservatory of Music of PR and exquisite lyric soprano, Ms. Zoraida Lopez. For all of these musical blessings I am so more than grateful, words are not enough to express what the year 2005 musically means to me. -tl