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Christopher Pfund, tenor...

b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up April 2009 Universally recognized for his character portrayals of the Roasting Swan in Carmina Burana, which The Ottawa Citizen called "suitably whiney and indignant," tenor Christopher Pfund has made that role a pillar of his career, performing it with countless major orchestras in North America. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel admired his "rounded vocal beauty" and The New York Times called his voice an "attractive tenor [that] helps define a sympathetic character." While best known for his oratorio work with orchestra, Pfund has also enjoyed success on the opera stage, including Glimmerglass Opera (Bardolfo in Falstaff), New York City Opera (Emilio in Handel’s Partenope) and El Paso Opera as Pong in Turandot, to name a few. The 2008/09 season brings his debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck in Carmina Burana, a performance of Messiah with the Rochester Philharmonic, and another portrayal of Pong, this time with the Jacksonville Symphony. 2007/08 was one of Pfund’s biggest seasons yet, performing Carmina Burana with the Philadelphia Orchestra (Philadelphia, Vail, CO and Saratoga, NY), Colorado Symphony, Houston Symphony, Florida Orchestra and at the International Festival Cesky Krumlov with the Prague Radio Symphony in addition to Haydn’s Creation with the Louisiana Philharmonic. During the 06/07 season, Pfund sang Camina with the Spokane Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Windsor Symphony, and overseas in Xalapa (Mexico) and at the International Festival Cesky Krumlov with the Prague Radio Symphony. Other repertoire that season included Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus with the Little Orchestra Society, the Mozart Requiem with the Lancaster Symphony and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Magnificat with the Canterbury Choral Society. The previous season brought him together with the Colorado Symphony and Jeffrey Kahane, the Jacksonville Symphony and Fabio Mechetti, and the Monterey Symphony under Max Bragado-Darman, all with Carmina Burana. One of his other signature pieces, Handel’s Messiah, was performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta conducting, and the Syracuse Symphony as well as the Danbury Music Center. Pfund also sang in Mozart’s Requiem at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York and collaborated with Gerard Schwarz in Kurt Weill’s Eternal Road under the auspices of the Milken Family Foundation. Highlights of earlier seasons include Handel’s Messiah with the Virginia Symphony and National Arts Centre Orchestra, Carmina Burana with the Jacksonville, Memphis, Colorado, Virginia, Pacific, Alabama, San Diego symphonies, and at the New Hampshire Music Festival and Winter Park Festival. Other recent credits include Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with the Virginia Symphony and Bach’s Cantata # 172 with the New Haven Chorale, Haydn’s Creation with the Handel Choir of Baltimore, Mozart’s Requiem with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Oratorio Society of New York, as well as Britten’s War Requiem with the Greeley Philharmonic. On the operatic side he has portrayed Sempronio in Haydn’s Lo Speziale with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Pong in Puccini’s Turandot with El Paso Opera, New Jersey State Opera, and the Florentine Opera, Tonik in Smetana’s The Two Widows with the Chautauqua Opera and the New York City premiere of Ernst Krenek’s Vertrauenssache with Elysium between Two Continents. Pfund has recorded the title role in Britten’s Albert Herring on the Vox label and Distant Playing Fields: Vocal Music of Amy Beach and William Maye on Newport Classics. A Colorado native, Christopher Pfund holds degrees from both the University of Northern Colorado and Manhattan School of Music. He was an opera apprentice with the Santa Fe, Glimmerglass and Chautauqua operas, and was a 20th Century Song Recitalist at the Banff Centre. b i o....r e p e r t o i r e....r e s u m e back to roster...up . click here to read Christopher Pfund's resume (MS Word) . . .

. r e p e r t o i r e..........back to roster....up OPERA Argento — Postcard from Morocco — Lyric Tenor Bizet — Les Pecheurs de Perles — Nadir Bizet — Carmen — El Remendado Britten — Albert Herring — Albert Donizetti — L'Elisir D'amore — Nemorino Donizetti — Don Pasquale — Ernesto Laio — Nellimbarazzo — Pipetto Floyd — Of Mice and Men — Ballad Singer Handel — Partenope — Emilio Haydn — Lo Speziale Sempronio Menotti — Amahl and the Night Visitors — King Kaspar Mozart — Bastien und Bastienne — Bastien Mozart — Entführung aus dem Sarail — Pedrillo Mozart — Le nozze di Figaro — Don Curzio Mozart — Die Zauberflöte — Tamino Offenbach — Les Contes d'Hoffmann — Nathanael Puccini — Gianni Schicchi — Rinuccio Puccini — Turandot — Pong Puccini — Tosca — Spoletta Puccini — Madama Butterfly — Goro Rossini — Le Comte Ory — Ory Smetana — Two Widows — Tonik Stravinsky — The Rake's Progress — Tom Rakewell Verdi — Falstaff — Fenton, Bardolfo Weisgall, Hugo — Six Characters in Search of An Author — Unmentionalble Sin ORATORIO Bach — St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 — Evangelist, Tenor Solos Bach — Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 Bach — Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Bach — Cantata 189 Solo Cantata Berlioz — Requiem Bernstein — Mass — Selected Tenor Solos Britten — Rejoice in the Lamb Britten — Spring Symphony Britten — Serenade for Tenor and Horn — Orchestral Song Cycle Britten — Nocturne — Orchestral Song Cycle Handel — Messiah Haydn — The Creation Haydn — Lord Nelson Mass Haydn — Mass in Time of War Holmes — Stabat Mater Mendelssohn — Elijah Mozart — Requiem Orff — Carmina Burana Scarlatti — Su le sponde del Tebro — Solo Cantata Schubert — First Mass in F b i o....r e p e r t o i r e....r e s u m e back to roster...up . . . .