““Baritone Bradley Christensen (Silvio) was both vocally rich and a good actor, particularly convincing during the Nedda/Silvio duet...Christensen sang with the lush musical ebb and flow that Leoncavallo’s score demands.”
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Bradley Christensen enjoys a busy multi-faceted career as a baritone, voice teacher, and guest clinician. He holds four degrees: a BMUS (Hons) in Vocal Performance and a BA in Italian, both from the University of Auckland, and a MMus and a DMA in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Toronto. In 2016, he was invited by The Royal Conservatory of Toronto to hold one of seven positions in its prestigious Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program. He also furthered his development as a young artist with Opera on the Avalon, Highlands Opera Studio, and Opera North.
Bradley has had the pleasure of working with many arts organizations across Canada and internationally through the realms of opera, operetta, oratorio, chamber music, song recitals, and musical theater. On the concert stage, Bradley has appeared in Canada as a soloist with the Grand Philharmonic Choir of Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph Chamber Choir, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra Toronto, Ottawa Choral Society, Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, and Thirteen Strings to name a few. Performance highlights also include solo appearances in New Zealand with the Hamilton Civic Choir, Auckland Choral Society, and a performance in Auckland of Brahms’ song cycle, Die schöne Magelone, conceptualized with director, Aria Umezawa. Bradley is also a keen recitalist, having performed in the Canadian Opera Company Concert Series, Concerts @100, the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, and with the Pocket Concert Group.
In opera, Bradley has performed across North America with numerous organizations. In a recent performance of Mozart’s Idomeneo with Opera Atelier, Stephen Bonfield of Opera Canada wrote, "And then there was striking baritone Bradley Christensen as the High Priest lending essential dramatic lower tessitura counterbalance to the opera’s preference for upper register roles. Christensen is an excellent singer and actor and I look forward to seeing him in more roles with OA.” Bradley made his US debut in 2017 performing the role of Agamemnon with Opera North in Offenbach’s La belle Hélène, while also covering the role of Fred/Petruccio in Cole Porter’s Kiss me Kate.
Awards include the Sondra Radvanovsky scholarship, awarded by the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists as one of 10 ‘Singing Stars: The Next Generation’; the Pears-Britten singing scholarship (University of Auckland); the Marie D’Albini scholarship in singing (University of Auckland); and a travelling scholarship to study in Italy in 2007 (University of Auckland). Bradley has also been a top 10 finalist in the New Zealand Aria Competition, the LEXUS Song Quest and the Rochester International Voice Competition.
A keen educator, Bradley has worked at the University of Toronto as a Vocal Coach for the Tenor/Bass Choir and a mentor to the Faculty of Music’s undergraduate vocal pedagogy students. He runs a private voice studio and serves as a guest clinician to various arts organizations and high schools, administering vocal workshops and masterclasses. This past year, Bradley was invited to serve as a ‘Teaching Artist’ at the Canadian Opera Company.