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Photo: From the artist’s archives
Colin Balzer Having studied at the University of British
Columbia under the direction of David Meek and
in Edith Wiens’ studio at the Hochschule für Musik
in Nuremberg, Colin Balzer is the winner of many
awards, including 1 st Prizes at the ’s-Hertogenbosch
Competition, Wigmore Hall Song Competition,
Hugo Wolf Competition and ARD Competition,
as well as a gold medal at the R. Schumann
Competition in Zwickau. This versatile vocalist
performs music from many eras, both secular and
religious, to which, in part he owes the development
of his career on an international scale. Balzer has
performed all over Europe, North America and
Asia under the direction of such artists as Simone
Young (B. Britten’s War Requiem at the Aldeburgh
Festival), Phillipe Herreweghe (H. Purcell’s Ode
to St. Cecilia and J. S. Bach’s Passion According to
St. Matthew with Collegium Vocale Gent), Marc
Minkowski (W. A. Mozart’s Idomeneo at the
Bremen Festival, as well as Mass in C minor with Les
Musiciens du Louvre), Louis Langrée (Mozart’s Don
Giovanni at the Aix-en-Provence Festival), Simon
Preston, Marcus Creed (G. F. Handel’s Chandos
Anthems with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra as
part of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s
concert series), Enoch zu Guttenberg (F. J. Haydn’s
Creation and The Seasons with KlangVerwaltung),
Roberto Abbado (Mozart’s Coronation Mass), Jörg
Peter Weigle (R. Schumann’s Das Paradies und
die Peri), Kenneth Montgomery, Bernard Labadie,
Hans-Christoph Rademann, Leopold Hager and
Helmuth Rilling. This season, aside from numerous
performances in Canada (Toronto, Vancouver,
Québec), he will be hosted in the United States;
for the first time, he will sing at Carnegie Hall in
New York (Handel’s Messiah). The artist performs
art song repertoire with great success, as reflected
by his numerous disc recordings. A recording of
J.-B. Lully’s Psyché made at the Boston Early Music
Festival with his participation was nominated for a
Grammy Award.
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