tenor
Performance Dates
September 21/23 8:00 PM
September 24 3
:00 PM
Established as a powerful young Heldentenor in demand both in opera and in concert, Thomas Studebaker has appeared with some of the world’s leading conductors. His 2005-06 season began with a European tour of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Kurt Masur. The tenor repeated the piece in Tokyo, Omaha, and Louisville. Later in the season he returned to Tokyo for concerts of Schoenberg’s masterpiece, Gurrelieder. His future projects include the role of Melot in Tristan und Isolde with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. He makes his ASO debut with these concerts.
Notable engagements in recent seasons include performances of Tristan und Isolde with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, and London Philharmonic Orchestra, a duo recital in New York City with Christine Brewer, Der Freischütz under Eve Queler at Carnegie Hall, a debut at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as Siegmund in Wagner’s Die Walküre, Der Fliegende Holländer with both the Pittsburgh Opera and Opera Australia, and the Missa solemnis with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Kurt Masur.
Other highlights include his Santa Fe Opera debut as Narraboth in Salome, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Edo de Waart and the Sydney Symphony on tour in Los Angeles, Orlando, and New York, Siegmund in the first act of Wagner’s Walküre opposite Deborah Voigt as part of a Boston Lyric Opera gala concert, and appearances in Banff and Montréal as the Drum Major in Berg’s Wozzeck. He has also performed with Lake George Opera Festival and the European Center for Opera and Vocal Arts in Ghent, Belgium.
Originally a baritone, Mr. Studebaker made his debut as a tenor in the Opera Theatre of St. Louis 20th Anniversary Gala in 1995. He joined the Metropolitan Opera’s Young Artist Development Program in 1996, where he performed roles in Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Don Carlo, Il trovatore, Lohengrin, Die Zauberflöte, and Die Meistersinger. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1997 as the Officer in Ariadne auf Naxos.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and Illinois State University, Mr. Studebaker was chosen by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis to receive a grant from the Richard Gaddes Fund for Young Singers, and he was awarded a Robert M. Jacobson Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. He has also received the Kirsten Flagstad Memorial Award from the George London Foundation and a Career Grant from the Richard Ticker Music Foundation. He teaches on the voice faculty of Belmont University in Nashville.
Last Updated: August 31, 2006 |
Thomas Studebaker 
