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Joel Balzun

Praised for his "voluminous sound" and “imposing, ringing baritone,” Canadian baritone and composer Joel Balzun is an award-winner in the Wagner Society of New York Singers Competition, he also won the Fulham Opera Robert Presley Memorial Verdi Prize. Highlights of the 2025-2026 season include house débuts with Amarillo Opera (Pagliacci), Pittsburgh Opera (Fellow Travelers), Wichita Grand Opera (Ein deutsches Requiem) as well as a world premiere by Dale Trumbore. He also returns to Opera Laguna for Messiah and San Luis Obispo Master Chorale for works of Beach, Dvorak and Mozart. Recent performance highlights include his house début at Chautauqua Opera as Marcello (La bohème) and the title role in Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Lincoln in the Bardo, which he also previewed for the Metropolitan Opera. Other recent performance highlights include notable debuts at Los Angeles Opera (Il barbiere di Siviglia). He currently teaches voice and opera at CSUF and Fullerton College.