TIMOTHY SHANTZ
Tenor

Described as “…confident and polished,” by David Gordon Duke of the Vancouver Sun, Timothy Shantz is at home both as conductor and tenor soloist. In 2008 he sang with the Carmel Bach Festival as well as Bach’s Cantata No. 4 and Handel’s Dixit Dominus with Da Camera Singers and the Alberta Baroque Ensemble.

The 2006/2007 season saw him perform the Evangelist role of Bach’s St. John Passion at the Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago and appear as soloist and choir member under the direction of Pierre Boulez and Daniel Reuss at the Lucerne Festival Academy. Other works include Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore and Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Richard Eaton Singers, the Evangelist role in Ivan Moody’s Passion & Resurrection, Monteverdi’s Vespro della beata Vergine 1610, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Britten’s Cantata Misericordium and Handel’s Messiah.

Timothy has performed with Pro Coro Canada, the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Richard Eaton Singers, Bloomington Chamber Singers, University of New Hampshire Choirs, Ensemble de la Rue, the National Youth Choir of Canada, the Manitoba Summer Academy Choir, Spiritus Chamber Choir and VoiceScapes.

He studied voice most recently with Alan Bennett at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Previous teachers include Eva Bostrand, David Falk and Victor Martens. Shantz is a candidate for the Doctor of Music degree in Choral Conducting at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana.

He is currently Artistic Director of the Windsor Classic Chorale, Choir Director at the University of Windsor, and Chorusmaster for the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.