TODD BOYCE Baritone - leuwer artists management

TODD BOYCE
Baritone
Born in 1983 in Madison, Wisconsin.
Training:
Bavarian State Opera Young Artists Programme (2008-2010); Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artist
Program (2007-2008); The Music Academy of the West (2006; Marilyn Horne, Director); Opera Theatre of
St. Louis Gerdine Young Artist Program (2005-2006); Bachelor of Music, Voice Performance, Oberlin
Conservatory of Music (2005).
Vocal studies with John Norris and Marlene Rosen amongst others. Current teacher: Margreet Honig.
Competitions and Awards:
Finalist at the 30 th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition 2011; 3 rd Place at the Concours
Ernst Haefliger 2010; finalist at the Montserrat Caballé International Singing Competition, the International
Vocalisten Concours in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, and the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum
Competition; 2 nd Place, Region, at The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; Founder’s Award of
the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Gaddes Fund for Young Singers; Concerto Award Winner of the Oberlin
Conservatory Concerto Competition; First Prize and Audience Favorite Award of the Opera Guild of Dayton
Opera Annual College Competition.
First engagements in the United States include Top in The Tender Land at Madison Opera, Dancaïro and
Moralès in Carmen at Toledo Opera, George Jones in Street Scene and Fiorello in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the Oberlin Conservatory, Angelo
in Das Liebesverbot at Glimmerglass Opera, Vicar in Albert Herring at the Oberlin Conservatory as well as
Pfleger des Orest in Elektra in concert with The Cleveland Orchestra. Other concert appearances: Vaughan
Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Oberlin Orchestra; Fauré‘s Requiem and Schubert‘s Mass No. 2 in
G Major with the Cleveland Youth Orchestra; Handel’s Messiah, Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles, Vaughan
Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols with The Cleveland Orchestra.
2008/09 and 2009/10 member of Bavarian State Opera’s Young Artists Programme.
Roles in Munich include L’officier in Dialogues des Carmélites, Bishop of Fiesoli/Chapel Singer/Apparition
of music-master in Palestrina, Brabantine Noble in Lohengrin, Petrucci in Lucrezia Borgia, the Wig-maker
2012/13

in Ariadne auf Naxos, Jazz Trio Baritone in Trouble in Tahiti, Commissario in Madama Butterfly, Flemish
Deputy in Don Carlo; Agent #4 (Count) in Intrigo internazionale (KV 492), an experimental theatre
performance inspired by musical and dramatic themes from Le nozze di Figaro, written by Johannes Müller;
Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and Dandini in La Cenerentola in Opera Studio productions as well as Bach‘s
Christmas Oratorio with Bavarian State Orchestra‘s Youth Orchestra.
He sang the title role in Don Giovanni in a semi-staged performance at the Philharmonie Bad Reichenhall
and Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia for Munich Kulturgipfel GmbH.
November 2010 to May 2011 part-season contract at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Austria.
Since the 2011/12 season Todd Boyce is a member of the opera company at the Lucerne Theatre,
Switzerland.
Roles in Lucerne in 2011/12: Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and
Mukhtada, the Baker, in the world premiere of Simon Wills‘ The Stolen Smells.
In the summer 2012 he returned to Innsbruck to sing Sid in Albert Herring (directed by Brigitte
Fassbaender).
Conductors he has worked with:
Howard Arman, Bertrand de Billy, John DeMain, Asher Fisch, James Gaffigan, Stephen Lord, Fabio Luisi,
Kent Nagano, Kirill Petrenko, Robert Porco, Eugene Tzigane, Juraj Valcuha, Christopher Ward, Franz Welser-
Möst, Dean Williamson, Simone Young amongst others.
Directors he has worked with:
Ken Cazan, John Copley, Brigitte Fassbaender, Robin Guarino, Sam Helfrich, Schorsch Kamerun, Tobias
Kratzer, Dominique Mentha, James Robinson, Arpád Schilling, Alexander Schulin, Thaddeus Strassberger,
Dmitri Tcherniakov amongst others.
Future projects include:
Giorgio Germont in La Traviata, Niceros in Satyricon, Eumete in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, Dandini in
La Cenerentola in Lucerne; in September 2012 he makes his debut at the Lucerne Festival with works by
Joseph Marx, Hugo Wolf and Giovanni Pergolesi; he returns to the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra for Puccini’s
Messa di Gloria and a New Year’s Concert.
2012/13