TYLER DUNCAN (baritone) enjoys international renown for bringing consummate musicianship, vocal beauty and interpretive insight to recital, concert and–increasingly–operatic literature. In spring 2010 he had his debut at the American Spoleto Festival in the role of Friendly in the 18th-century ballad opera Flora, and returned the next season to perform the role of the Speaker in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. He has sung Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with Pacific Opera Victoria, Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Princeton Festival; roles in Lully’s Armide with Houston’s Mercury Baroque; Purcell’s The Faerie Queen and King Arthur with Early Music Vancouver; Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for Greensboro Opera; the title role of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro on a Swiss tour with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Christoph Poppen; and the High Priest in the Richard-Strauss adaptation of Mozart’s Idomeneo conducted by Ion Marin at the Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. For the Boston Early Music Festival Mr. Duncan will be performing the title role in Graupner’s Antiochus und Stratonica.

Recently released on the CPO label is his Boston Early Music Festival recording of the title role of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis. Forthcoming recordings are Bach’s St. John Passion with Portland Baroque under Monica Huggett and a DVD recording of Handel’s Messiah with the Montreal Symphony under Kent Nagano with CBC television. Awaiting release on the ATMA label are recordings of works by Purcell, and Carissimi’s oratorio Jepthe with Les Voix Baroque.

An exceptional oratorio singer performing a remarkable range of repertoire, Mr. Duncan’s concerts include Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with the Montreal, Québec and Winnipeg Symphonies; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Calgary Philharmonic and with the Philharmonie der Nationen in Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart and Frankfurt; Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten with the Calgary Philharmonic; Handel’s Messiah with the Montreal Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque and Portland Baroque; Handel’s La Resurrezione at Germany’s Halle Handel Festival and the Vancouver Early Music Festival; Brahms’ Requiem at Festival Vancouver; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Montreal Symphony/Kent Nagano, The Munich Bach Choir, Consensus Vocalis, Enschede, Holland and the Dresdner Kreuzchor; Bach’s Ich habe genug with Toronto’s Tafelmusik, Symphony Nova Scotia and the Calgary Philharmonic; Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with Tafelmusik; Vaughan-Williams’ Five Mystical Songs in Vancouver (Berkshire Choral Festival under Jon Washburn) and Carnegie Hall with Kent Tritle and the Oratorio Society of New York. He has sung the title role of Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Munich, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at Canada’s Elora Festival; and made an extensive North American tour of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers with Tragicomedia and Concerto Palatino.

Mr. Duncan’s considerable gifts in the realm of art song have earned him prizes from the Naumburg, Wigmore Hall (London) and ARD (Munich) Competitions. Frequently accompanied by pianist Erika Switzer, he has given acclaimed recitals in New York, Boston, Paris and Montreal, as well as throughout Canada, Germany, Sweden, France and South Africa. He was also winner of the 2010 Joy in Singing Auditions in New York, the 2008 New York Oratorio Society Competition, 2007 Prix International Pro Musicis and the Bernard Diamant Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. He holds music degrees from the University of British Columbia; Germany’s Hochschule für Musik (Augsburg) and Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Munich). He is a founding member on the faculty of the Vancouver International Song Institute.

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