Jeffrey Springer, tenor

*Starring as Tristan on January 31st, 2010 with the Debut Orchestra

Dramatic tenor Jeffrey Springer has performed to popular acclaim across Europe and North America in theaters such as the Chicago Lyric Opera,  Florida Grand Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Cincinnati Opera, Arizona Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Manitoba Opera, as well as the German National Theater in Mannheim, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, and Magdeburg in Germany, National Touring Opera of the Netherlands, Opéra de Nantes in France, and Spain’s Teatro de Navarra, among many others.

On the concert stage, Mr. Springer has appeared with leading orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Flagstaff Symphony, The Grand Teton’s Music Festival, Kentucky Symphony, Tulsa Philharmonic, Philharmonia Hungaria and Romanian State Symphony. Most recently he performed Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Japan with the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn, Germany, and in the United States with the Milwaukee, Nashville, Indianapolis, and Green Bay Symphony Orchestras. This season he has also performed the Verdi Requiem with West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Florida Orchestra and a solo concert of Wagner Arias with the Houston Symphony and Chorus.

Operatic engagements from the recent 2008-2009 season included the title role of Samson in Samson & Dalila with the Dublin International Opera Festival, Tristan in Tristan und Isolde at Lyric Opera of Chicago under Sir Andrew Davis, Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana with Orlando Opera, Max in Der Freischutz with Des Moines Metro Opera, Calaf in Turandot in concert with South Dakota Symphony and Manrico in Il Trovatore in concert with the Westfield Symphony.

Mr. Springer was honored as being one of this generation’s Emerging Wagner Artists by the famous duo, Thomas Stewart and Evelyn Lear, and the Washington DC Wagner Society. In addition, he is the winner of the Concours International de Chant de Festival Atlantique in Nantes, France, the José Carreras Prize in Pamplona, Spain, and the Third Prize in the Concours International de Chant in Toulouse, France. He is also a grant recipient from the New York City Wagner Society and from the prestigious Gerda Lissner Foundation in New York.

Mr. Springer has recorded Jerre Tanner’s Naupaka Floret with the Moravian Philharmonic, (Jiri Mikula, Cond.) for the Music from Six Continents Series, Vienna Modern Masters. A graduate of Indiana University, Jeffrey Springer moved into the tenor repertoire under the instruction of the legendary heldentenor, James King.