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Dr. Todd Queen

Director of Opera, Voice

(970) 491-3272 | Todd.Queen@colostate.edu

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Tenor, Todd Queen performs regularly as a soloist with national and regional opera companies, orchestras, choruses, and concert series. Recent engagements include the role of Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer with Opera Fort Collins and tenor soloist in Carmina Burana with the Cheyenne Symphony and with Colorado State University. Additional opera roles include roles of Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, the title role Candide, Fenton in Falstaff, Male Chorus in Rape of Lucretia, Borsa in Rigoletto, El Remendado in Carmen, and St. Brioche in Merry Widow. He has sung with Sacramento Opera, Operafestival di Roma, Opera Fort Collins, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Lyric Artists of the West, Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He spent the summers of 1999 and 2000 in Portland, Maine as a Young Artist with Portland Opera Repertory Theatre. Upcoming engagements include a recital/masterclass tour in Texas.

Recent orchestral engagements include Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with the Colorado State University Chamber Orchestra and the featured soloist at the New Year’s Eve celebration with the Fort Collins Symphony. His oratorio roles include Lucas in Haydn’s The Seasons, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, the Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion, Uriel in Haydn’s Creation, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven Symphony #9, and Bach’s Magnificat. He has been a guest soloist with The Larimer Chorale, Colorado Repertory Singers, Utah Valley Chorus and Orchestra, Southwest Symphony and Chorus, Alpine Chorale, Longmont Symphony and Chorale, Cheyenne Symphony, Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, and the Rochester Oratorio Society.

Todd Queen is equally at home in the intimate setting of the solo song recital. He has received high praise for his artistry in performances of German lieder, French chanson, and Italian art song. A champion of American and British art song, Todd regularly performs works by composers such as Benjamin Britten, Dominick Argento, Ned Rorem, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He premiered David King’s cycle Songs to the Moon (2001) and recently commissioned King’s Susannah and the Elders, on texts by Wallace Stevens. He 2003, he made his international recital debut in Puebla, Mexico, singing a program of American religious songs. He has been a guest soloist with the North Dakota Ballet Company and the Fargo-Moorhead Civic Opera’s Performing Artist Series. Other recital and master class venues include Bemidji State University, Brigham Young University, University of North Dakota, Chadron State College, University of South Dakota, Converse College and the University of Virginia.

Todd Queen is Associate Professor of Voice and Director of Opera at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has also Artistic Director of Opera Fort Collins and serves of the faculty of Operafestival di Roma, where he teaches voice and directs the opera scenes program. He has directed numerous operas, including Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and Le Nozze di Figaro, Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Copland’s The Tender Land, Britten’s Albert Herring, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado and Pirates of Penzance. He recently made his guest stage directing debut with Passaggio Opera Company, where he directed three one-acts, including Menotti’s The Telephone, Robert Ward’s Roman Fever, and Vaughan Williams Riders to the Sea. He previously taught at North Dakota State University, Alfred University, and Syracuse University. Dr. Queen earned the DMA and MM degrees from the prestigious Eastman School of Music after completing his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University in Utah. He is an active member of College Music Society and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. In 2001 Dr. Queen was one of 12 outstanding young voice teachers selected from Canada and the US to participate in the NATS Summer Intern Program.

View Todd Queen's website at www.toddqueen.com.