Tenor Colin Balzer has sung acclaimed recitals in London, New York and Philadelphia, and concerts with the Portland, New Jersey, Toronto, Quebec, Atlanta, Montreal and Indianapolis Symphony orchestras as well as Early Music Vancouver, Tafelmusik, Les Violons du Roy, the National and Calgary Philharmonic orchestras, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Musica Sacra, and the Oratorio Society of New York, among others.
His performances with the Boston Early Music Festival include Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Handel’s Almira, Steffani’s Niobe, regina di Tebe, Lully’s Psyché, and Mattheson’s Boris Goudenow. He has been featured in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Bolshoi and in Aix-en-Provence, and Mozart’s La finta giardiniera in Aix and Luxembourg.
His recordings include Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, Eisler and Henze song anthologies, Bach’s St John Passion and Mass in B minor and Sebastiani’s Matthew Passion. Balzer earned the Gold Medal at the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau with the highest score in 25 years