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Tenor Bryce Westervelt is sought after as a soloist with opera companies, orchestras and choral groups across the United States. He has been characterized as a “… tenor with a charming ease in the stylistic subtleties of early music” (Washington Post), having a “delicately nuanced lyric voice” (Washington Times) and as being both “vocally seductive and tonally impressive” (MontereyHerald).
Mr. Westervelt’s concert repertoire spans over 30 major works including those of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Verdi, Dvorak, Britten and Blake. As concert soloist he has performed with leading ensembles including the Albany Pro Musica, Annapolis Symphony, the Bach Festival of Central Florida, Bel Canto Chorus (Milwaukee), Canterbury Choral Society (Oklahoma City), Cathedral Choral Society (Washington National Cathedral), Connecticut Choral Artists, Folger Consort, Hartford Symphony, National Chamber Orchestra, Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, and other choral and orchestral groups throughout the United States. He performed in the Washington National Cathedral, National Building Museum, German Embassy, and Smithsonian and as recitalist at the Arts Club of Washington and Go for Baroque Early Music Festival in Dunedin, Florida.
On the opera stage, the tenor’s roles include Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Idamante in Idomeneo, and Almaviva in I Barbiere di Siviglia. He has performed with Opera Roanoke, St. Petersburg Opera, Concert Opera of Philadelphia, Summer Opera Theater (Catholic University), 20th Century Consort, Washington Savoyards, and the Maryland Opera Studio.
Mr. Westervelt was a finalist in the 2000 Bethlehem Bach Festival Competition and received the prestigious Virginia Best Adams Fellowship at the Carmel Bach Festival in 2000. He was a member of the Berkshire Opera Young Artist Development program and spent two summers as a member of the Brevard Music Center Opera Workshop. In the winter of 2007 he worked with Sherrill Milnes’ V.O.I.C.Experience Foundation, culminating in a performance at the historic Players in New York City. Mr. Westervelt holds a Master of Music in Opera Performance from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Georgia, a student of François Loup and Gregory Broughton respectively.
Highlights of the tenor’s exciting 2006/07 season included Handel’s Saul at the Bach Festival of Central Florida, Haydn’s Creation with the Bel Canto Chorus in Milwaukee, Dave Brubeck’s To Hope! (with Mr. Brubeck) with the Canterbury Choral Society in Oklahoma City, Bach’s Drama per Musica BWV 205 with the Washington Bach Consort, and the Florida premiere of Howard Blake’s Benedictus with the Southwest Florida Symphony.
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