Daniel Lichti

Acclaimed as one of Canada's finest concert and oratorio singers, Daniel Lichti continues to build on his successes with major North American symphonic, choral and concert organizations, his activity extending to the concert halls of Europe, Japan, South America, and Israel. He has bowed at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, L'Opéra de Montréal, Opéra de Québec, Opera Atelier, and Opera Ontario after beginning his career with the Stratford Festival and the Canadian Opera Company. He has been heard frequently with Toronto's Opera in Concert, at many North American Festivals, and his performances have been heard on the CBC, BBC, and the NPR network. Since 1998 Mr. Lichti has been Associate Professor with the Faculty of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.

Combined with performances, Mr.Lichti has responded to invitations to conduct masterclasses in Malta, at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman in Argentina, York University, Toronto, Princeton University in New Jersey, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Depauw University, Greenboro, Indiana, and for the Ontario Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, among others. Most recently he was a guest teacher at Rollins College, in Winterpark, Florida and at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. He was featured as one of a panel of four judges and coaches for the second season of the highly successful Bathroom Divas television show that aired on BRAVO and won a Gemini Award for Best Human Interest Series. He has been on the Faculty of the Schlern International Music Festival in Italy and returns to the Elora Festival Academy of Music in 2010.

Highlights of past seasons include a Proms Concert at Royal Albert Hall in a premiere performance of Libby Larsen's I It Am (a co-commission by the Bach Choir of Bethlehem and the BBC), the world premiere of Ruth Fazal's deeply moving Oratorio Terezin in Toronto, performances of Bach's Mass in B minor at King's College, the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, at St. Albans Organ Festival, the Hercules Saal in Munich as well as at the Kennedy Center and at Carnegie Hall in celebration of the Centenary of its first North American performance. Concerts and an acclaimed video recording with the Bach specialist, Helmuth Rilling and the Bach Akademie of Stuttgart, as well as concerts with the Bach Aria Group and the Washington Bach Consort are also among his past credits. Mr. Lichti has been a frequent guest artist at most North American Bach Festivals, notably The Bach Festival in Bethlehem, PA, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Baldwin-Wallace Festival in Berea, Ohio, the Shenandoah Bach Festival and the Oregon Bach Festival. He has been heard in concert with the orchestras of San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Vancouver, Cleveland, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg, Kitchener-Waterloo and Newark; with Boston's Handel & Haydn Society, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Canadian Chambre Ensemble, Philharmonia Baroque of San Francisco, Les Violons du Roy and Tafelmusik.