Staff

Bobby Ray — Founder / Executive Director

Bobby Ray is the Founder and Executive Director of Electric Opera Company, who you can commonly find singing opera into a microphone with his red PRS CE 24 draped around his neck.  Bobby has worn many hats for EOC during the past year including Figaro (The Barber of Seville), Lead Guitarist, Artistic Director, Guitar Czar (Das Rheingold), Rehearsal Conductor, Incorporator, Composer, Copy-Maker, Roadie, and Gear Driver.  While majoring in Voice at the University of Portland (2009), his fondness for Opera collided with his passion for the electric guitar when he began studying Rossini’s famous Largo al Factotum.  Almost as a joke, he and roommate Adam Goodwin recorded the piece with a few electric guitars.  A little more than a year later, Electric Opera Company is alive in the Portland music scene and Bobby is having the time of his life.  Major influences include:  Joe Satriani, Giaochinno Rossini, Metallica, Mozart, Gounod, Tchaikovsky, Steve Vai, Bach, John Petrucci, and (most recently and profoundly) Richard Wagner.

Adam Goodwin — Director of Education

Adam currently reigns as the EOC dude with the longest hair. Since graduating from the University of Portland in 2009 with a Psychology and Spanish double major and Environmental Science minor, he has dedicated the vast majority of his braining to the world of classical music. Outside of EOC and the classical genre, he enjoys music from the most brutal of metal to blazing bluegrass. Aside from working as part of EOC’s administrative team as the Director of Education, Adam is currently completing a year of Americorps service at Ethos Music Center, teaching guitar at Ethos and public schools. Aside from immersing himself in music Adam enjoys brewing beer, baseball, and nuzzling the spikes of Krump.

Danielle Larson — Executive Assistant

Danielle Larson, native to the majestic and famed state of Idaho, began her acting training as an apprentice at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, where she spent two summers studying acting through Shakespeare.  Around the same time she began her formal study of classical singing, and after those initial leaps took the Oregon Trail to Portland, where she is currently in her third year of schooling as a Music and Theatre major at University of Portland.  At the U of P she is also studying arts entrepreneurship through the E –Scholars program, is an active member of the comedy improv troupe “Bluffoons” and a regular performer in theatrical productions on campus. Previous onstage credits include Sister Mary Amnesia in Nunsense, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera, Hero in Much Ado about Nothing, Janice in Italian American Reconciliation, and, most proudly, Rosina in Electric Opera Company’s inaugural production of The Barber of Seville. She hopes to continue her career as a performer and as the executive assistant of this awesome company.