John tessier tenor biography of donald

Background:On the international stages of opera, concert, and recital, Canadian John Tessier has garnered attention and praise for the beauty and honesty of his voice, for a refined style and creative versatility, and for his handsome, youthful presence in the lyric tenor repertoire. The Juno Award-winning artist has worked with many of the most notable conductors of our day including David Robertson, Leonard Slatkin, Plácido Domingo, John Nelson, Franz Welser-Möst, Emmanuelle Haïm, Charles Dutoit, Donald Runnicles, Robert Spano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Bernard Labadie.

Highlights:

• John Tessier’s vibrant discography includes Mozart’sRequiemboth with Donald Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and with Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy, John Corigliano’s ADylan Thomas Trilogywith Leonard Slatkin and the Nashville Symphony, Stephen Paulus’ToBeCertain of the Dawnwith Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein’sA Quiet Placewith Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Camille Saint-Saëns’sHenry VIIIwith Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra and, Haydn’sThe Creationwith Jane Glover leading Music of the Baroque.
• On the concert stage, the tenor has been heard in performances of Bach’sSt. Matthew Passionwith Iván Fischer and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, Rossini’sStabat Materand Schumann’sScenes from Goethe’s Faustwith the Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst, Mozart’sRequiemwith Hervé Niquet leading the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn’sElijahboth with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Charlotte Symphony, andCarmina Buranawith Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony. 
• In the 2020-21 season, John Tessier was engaged for performances with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, and for a presentation ofAnna Bolenaat Edmonton Opera.
  Performances of the 2019-2020 season includedIl Barbiere di Sivigliawith New Zealand Opera and Handel’sMessiahwith Chicago’s International Music Foundation. He was engaged for performances ofDie Fledermausat the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy in Japan in a production staged by Metropolitan Opera director David Kneuss and conducted by Artistic Director Seiji Ozawa as well as for symphonic performances with the Calgary Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Vancouver Bach Choir.

Critical Praise:

• “Tessier has a lovely, limpid voice that carries extremely well. With its warm timbre, he seems to float to the highest notes, as in the famous aria Ah mes amis, in which he reeled off a whopping nine high Cs, completely free of strain.”Winnipeg Free Press
• “John Tessier set the bar high with his flexible forward tenor…he handles Rossini’s runs with unostentatious ease, so the demanding coloratura sounds seamlessly part of a whole. More over he sings expressively and imbues honesty…”Boston Classical Review

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