Joel Burcham

Tenor

Assistant Professor of Voice

Email: Joel.Burcham@colorado.edu
Performance Website: http://www.chicagoconcertartists.com
Office Location: Room C131, Imig Music Building
Office Phone: (303) 492-7023
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301


A tenor voice of “clarion tone and operatic power” is quickly bringing Joel Burcham to the attention of conductors and directors throughout the Midwest.  His growing list of venues includes Madison Opera, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, Utah Opera, Opera Omaha and Central City Opera.  His Pang with Madison Opera received “top marks for both musical capabilities and humor.”

Mr. Burcham made his professional operatic debut when, as the understudy apprentice artist, he was given the opportunity to sang Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri for Central City Opera.  Other operatic roles include Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte, and Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola.

Recent engagements include the role of Martin in Copeland’s The Tenderland for Madison Opera, Carmina Burana with the Madison Symphony under the baton of Emil de Cou, and Philippe in Romberg’s New Moon with Music by the Lake.  Upcoming engagements include his debut as Rodolfo in La Bohème with Opera Fort Collins.

Following his debut with the Utah Symphony in Beethoven’s Mass in C he was asked to return for a performance of Messiah.  He has also enjoyed a return engagement with the Omaha Symphony as a participant in their 2003 and 2005 Choral Collaborative, a concert featuring operatic excerpts for soloist and chorus.  He has performed Britten’s Serenade for Tenor and Horn with the Camerata Orchestra and Messiah with Augustana College.

With degrees from Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville and the University of Arkansas, Mr. Burcham serves on the faculty of University of Colorado, Boulder.

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