“Sonorous” (Opera News) and “Suave” (parterre box) baritone Harrison Hintzsche is a recitalist, concert singer, and ensemble musician who enjoys the unique challenge of interpreting a wide range of diverse repertoire. He has been praised for his warm lyric tone, musical subtlety, and dedication to text.
In January 2018, Hintzsche made his international debut at London’s Wigmore Hall in a collaborative art song recital with pianist and scholar Graham Johnson as a part of Johnson’s recital series, “Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs,” and was noted by Opera Today for displaying a “strong sense of narrative” and “gentle poignancy” in his interpretations of Schubert’s work. He is the first-place winner of the 2020 Colorado Bach Ensemble Young Artist Competition, as well as the first-place winner of the Edvard Grieg Society of Minnesota’s 2018 Voice Competition. He was the first-ever recipient of the William H. Halverson Award, presented by the Edvard Grieg Society of America for an outstanding performance of Grieg’s music, and is also the 2020 recipient of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Margot Fassler Prize in the Performance of Sacred Music.
Recent soloist performance highlights include a live recording of Bach’s St. John Passion with Nicholas McGegan and Cantata Collective (bass arias, Pilate), Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Colorado Bach Ensemble (bass arias), Bálint Karosi’s reconstruction of Bach’s St. Mark Passion (Jesus), a semi-staged version of John Blow’s opera Venus & Adonis (Adonis) with Early Music Access Project, a tour of South Korea with the American Soloists Ensemble and conductor Euijoong Yoon, Handel’s Messiah with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and Finzi’s In Terra Pax and Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols with the Choral Society of the Hamptons.
As a sought-after ensemble musician, Hintzsche sings regularly with leading choral ensembles such as the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Ensemble Altera, Yale Choral Artists, and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, among others.
Hintzsche holds degrees in music from Yale University and St. Olaf College. He is a native of DeKalb, Illinois.