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BALZER, COLIN
Colin Balzer
The gifted young Canadian lyric tenor Colin Balzer is fast
becoming one of the most sought-after concert soloists of his generation, with
a busy schedule of international engagements. Now based in Germany and with a repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Penderecki, he has enjoyed
critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, working with such conductors as
Helmuth Rilling, Simone Young, Simon Preston, Yoav Talmi, Gabriel Chmura and
Christof Perick, performing with the Hungarian and Polish National Radio
Orchestras, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Oregon, Vancouver and Québec Symphonies,
among many others. Particularly esteemed as a recitalist, he has been welcomed at
London's Wigmore Hall (accompanied by Graham Johnson), the Britten Festival in
Aldeburgh, Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center, the Vancouver Chamber Music
Festival, the Wratislavia Cantans in Poland, and at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden. Recordings to date include Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch and Eisler
and Henze song anthologies. A prizewinner of Holland's 's-Hertogenbosch
Competition, the London Wigmore Hall Song Competition, and Stuttgart Hugo Wolf
Competition, he holds the rare distinction of earning the Gold Medal at the Robert
Schumann Competition in Zwickau with the highest score in 25 years.
Master-classes have been with such artists as Philip Langridge, Helmut Deutsch,
Robert Tear, Elly Ameling, Brigitte Fassbaender, Rudolph Jansen, and Christoph
Prégardien. Born in British Columbia, he received his formal musical training
at the University of British Columbia with David Meek and at the Hochschule für
Musik Nürnberg / Augsburg with Edith Wiens.
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