Jonathan Gabriel Michie, baritone

Baritone Jonathan Gabriel Michie is currently pursuing his Master of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music in the studio of Carol Webber. He received his Bachelor of Music degree and Performer's Certificate from Eastman in 2006.

Favorite stage roles include: Danilo in The Merry Widow, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Fredrik in A Little Night Music, Moralés in Carmen, John Wilkes Booth in Assassins, Robert in Company, Pandolfe in Cendrillon, Orlando in Robert Ward’s Claudia Legare, The Storyteller in the world premiere of Charles Strouse’s East & West, Strephon in Iolanthe, Elder McLean in Susannah, and Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd. He spent the past two summers as a Young Artist with the Chautauqua Opera Company and the summer of 2005 as a member of the Ohio Light Opera company. He has been featured in concert at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Spoleto USA Festival, at the home of Broadway’s Charles Strouse, and with the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, as well as in Master Classes with Darren K Woods, Håkan Hagegård, Jay Lesenger, Peter Kazaras, Jennifer Larmore, Robert White and Richard Hundley.

Awards include the Kurt Weill Foundation's Lotte Lenya Competition, the Four-City District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, the Charles A. Lynam Competition, the Palm Beach Opera Competition, the National Orpheus Vocal Competition, the Lotte Lehmann Foundation’s American Song Award, the Jesse Kneisel Lieder Competition, the Liederkranz Foundation's Reusche Lieder Award, the Fritz & Lavinia Jensen Foundation’s Summer Program Award, and the Friends of Eastman Opera competition.

Jonathan will spend this summer at Chicago's Ravinia Festival singing with the Steans Institute for Young Artists.

For more information please visit www.jonathanmichie.com

*updated 2/3/08