BASS-BARITONE
Bass-Baritone Tyler Duncan - a ‘great communicator with suave vocal complexity’ (Vancouver Sun) - is the winner of the 2007 Prix International Pro Musicis and looks forward to debut recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Hall and at Pickman Hall in Boston in early January 2008. The New York resident is in high demand as an artist at home in lieder, opera and oratorio repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to modern music. British Columbia-born and until recently a German resident, Mr. Duncan has been heard in performances throughout Europe and North America. Recent highlights include a North American tour of the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 with Tragicomedia and Concerto Palatino, the role of Papageno in Holland and Belgium, the High Priest in the Strauss adaptation of Mozart’s IDOMENEO at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and a tour of Switzerland with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Christoph Poppen. He performs often with pianist Erika Switzer and their recitals have been applauded in Canada, Germany, Sweden, France and South Africa. Often heard on the CBC and BR (Bavarian Radio), he is featured on the Boston Early Music Festival recording of Conradi’s DIE SCHÖNE UND GETREUE ARIADNE on the CPO label.
Recent and upcoming engagements include Handel’s RESURREZIONE in Halle for the Handel Festival, Mendelssohn’s ELIJAH in Munich, WINTERREISE for the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, DREAM OF GERONTIUS for the Elora Festival and Buxtehude and Handel with Vancouver Early Music. Of particular note are staged performances of Bach Cantatas with Hans Joerg Albrecht conducting the Munich Bach Choir. Further into 2007-2008 he sings Bach’s MASS IN B MINOR in Wiesbaden, Purcell and Haydn with the Edmonton Symphony, Bach’s WEIHNACHTSORATORIUM with Tafelmusik in Toronto, MESSIAH with the Calgary Philharmonic, Victoria Symphony and Portland Baroque and an André Turp Musical Society recital with pianist Erika Switzer.
Mr. Duncan’s vocal artistry has been recognized by prizes from the Walter W. Naumburg Competition in New York, the ARD competition in Munich, the Wigmore Hall Song Competition in London, the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig and several generous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. He carries degrees in music from the University of British Columbia, the Hochschule für Musik Augsburg where he studied under Prof. Edith Wiens and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, where he studied song interpretation with Prof. Helmut Deutsch at the August Everding Bavarian Theatre Academy.
September 2007
