VISI Faculty: Tyler Duncan
Tyler
Duncan has been described as a ‘great communicator with suave vocal
complexity’ (Vancouver Sun). The Canadian baritone now resides
in Augsburg, Germany. He is in high demand as a versatile soloist who
is at home singing in the lieder, opera and oratorio genres spanning
from Monteverdi to modern music. His performances have taken him throughout
Europe and North America, recent highlights include a North American
tour of the Monteverdi Vespers with Tragicomedia and Concerto Palantino,
the role of Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro in Spain and a tour of Switzerland
with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Christoph Poppen. Tyler performs
often with pianist Erika Switzer giving recitals that have been recorded
by CBC Radio Canada and the BR (Bavarian Radio). He can also be heard
on the Boston Early Music Festival recording of Conradi’s Die
schöne
und getreue Ariadne under the CPO label. His singing has been recognized
in prizes from the Walter W. Naumburg Competition in New York, the ARD
competition in Munich, the Wigmore Hall Song Competition in London, the
Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig and several grants from
the Canada Council for the Arts. Tyler carries degrees in music from
the University of British Columbia, the Hochschule für Musik Augsburg
where he studied under Prof. Edith Wiens and the Hochschule für
Musik und Theater in Munich where he studied at the August Everding Bavarian
Theatre Academy and studied song interpretation with Prof Helmut Deutsch.
Recent performances include the role of Papageno in Holland and Belgium
and the High Priest in the Strauss adaptation of Mozart’s Idomeneo at
the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch Partenkirchen.