Daniel Lichti: Bass-baritone
Acclaimed as one of Canada's finest concert and oratorio singers, Daniel Lichti is a frequent guest soloist with major North American symphonic, choral, and concert organizations, and has also taken the stage in Europe, Japan, and Argentina. Active in opera as well, he has performed most recently at Teatro dell' Opera di Roma in "Giulio Cesare" by Handel, and just this past season with L'Opera de Montreal in Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" as Don Alfonso, as well as with Toronto's Opera in Concert as the King in Handel's "Ariodante".
Mr. Lichti's past season included: an appearance with the Vancouver Chambre Choir in Brahms' Requiem, Handel's "Messiah" with Seattle Baroque, Bach's B Minor Mass at the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival in Berea, Ohio, Mendelssohn's "Elijah" in Regina, Saskatchewan, Haydn's "Die Jahreszeiten" in Fulda, Germany, and a featured performance in a Gala Benefit Night at the Elora Festival.
A popular recitalist and Lieder singer, Lichti has sung Schubert's "Winterreise" at Washington's National Gallery, for Festival Canada in Ottawa, at the Shenandoah Bach Festival in Virginia, for Temple Square Concerts in Salt Lake City, and, he is slated to record this masterpiece for ATMA Classique next spring. Recently he has appeared in recital with Catherine Robbin in their duo recital "Songs from Venus and Mars", recorded and aired nationally by the C.B.C. This spring he presented an all Beethoven program at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, where he is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Voice for the Faculty of Music , and, made his recital debut in Germany for the Insel Klassik concert series on the Island of Reichenau near Konstanz.
Other highlights of Mr. Lichti's past performances include Carnegie Hall appearances in Bach's St. Matthew Passion with St. Luke's Orchestra under Blanche Moise, and in Bach's Mass in B minor, celebrating it's centenary in North America with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem under Greg Funfgeld, as well as a performance of the Mass in B Minor in the Thomas Kirche in Leipzig with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem on tour in Europe. Concerts with Helmuth Rilling and the Bachakademie of Stuttgart, and appearances with the Bach Aria Group are also among his credits. He is a regular guest artist at many North American Bach Festivals.
Mr. Lichti has been heard with the orchestras of San Francisco, Toronto, Calgary, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Montreal, Vancouver, Cleveland, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society, Quebec's Les Violons du Roy, and is a frequent soloist with Tafelmusik.
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