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Nathan Bryon - Tenor
Biography
Nathan Bryon is an Australian tenor, recently graduated with an Artist Diploma from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Nathan joins the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden for the 25/26 Season as winner of the German-Australian Opera Grant.
Nathan recently completed a residency at the Wiener Staatsoper as the recipient of the 2024 Michael Byrne Award from the Opera Foundation for Young Australians, where he performed the role of Vierte Knappe in Wagner’s Parsifal, and covered Elemer in Arabella, Erste Jude in Salome and Erster Geharnischter Mann in Die Zauberflöte.
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He is a San Francisco District Winner of The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2024), the Melba Opera Trust Dame Heather Begg Memorial Award (2023), the Australian Music Foundation Yvonne Kenny Award (2023) as well as the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship (2022).
In 2024, Nathan joined the prestigious Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco Opera, covering the role of Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, among other assignments.
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Recent performances include Pong (Turandot), Gastone (La Traviata) and Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. He has performed DvoÅ™ák’s Stabat Mater with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) for SFCM Opera, A Symphonic Christmas with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the Brahms 'Neue Liebeslieder Waltzer' with the San Francisco Bach Choir.
Nathan also attended the Aspen Music Festival in 2023 under the leadership of Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers. He performed the role of Christopf in Jimmy López's Bel Canto, and covered the roles of Arbace and the High Priest of Neptune in Mozart's Idomeneo. Roles include The Magician (The Consul), and Silvio/Dr. Miracle/Pasquin (Le Docteur Miracle) for SFCM Opera, and Acis (Acis and Galatea) for Ensemble Polypheme.
Nathan has extensive experience as an oratorio soloist amongst Sydney choirs and orchestras. He has performed Mozart's Requiem (Penrith Symphony Orchestra), Durante's Missa in C ,Vivaldi's Magnificat (Central Coast Chorale), Haydn's Die Schöpfung (Central Coast Chorale) Maunder's Olivet to Calvary (St Stephen's Uniting Church), Handel's Messiah (Manly-Warringah Choral Society), Haydn's Nelson Mass (Manly-Warringah Choral Society), Mozart's Mass in C Minor (Manly Warringah Choral Society). Nathan is a proud alumnus of the Melba Opera Trust, and has performed with MOT in partnership with Melbourne Digital Concert Hall for Melba: Her Legacy in Concert.
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Nathan holds a Bachelor of Music (Performance) from the Sydney
Conservatorium of Music.
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