The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Michael Prichard is a professional bass-baritone, active in the Boston and San Francisco Bay areas.
Baritone Michael Prichard began his professional career as a boy soprano in the renowned Choir of Men and Boys of Trinity Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut.As an undergraduate at MIT, he studied voice under John Oliver and was a founding member of the MIT Chamber Chorus.
An eight-year member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and a continuing member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (twenty years and counting), he has performed over 100 oratorios and masses under the direction of Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Vance George, Michael Tilson Thomas, Kurt Masur, and Donald Runnicles.
Mr. Prichard's professional solo appearances include Dido and Aeneas (West Marin Opera, California), Bernstein's Mass under the baton of Marin Alsop (Cabrillo Music Festival, Santa Cruz, CA), Mendelssohn's Elijah and the "Dies Irae" portion of Verdi's Requiem (Mt. Diablo Music Festival, CA), and numerous engagements with professional choirs in the San Francisco Bay area including the San Francisco Chamber Singers (Volti), the Baroque Arts Ensemble, Coro Hispano de San Francisco, and the chamber choir of the Church of the Advent in San Francisco.
Since moving back to Boston in 2003, he has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Ballet, the Tenglewood Festival Chorus in Tanglewood's Ozawa Hall, the Longwood Symphony, thhe Claflin Hill Symphony, and numerous local and regional opera companies. Some of his favorite recent roles have included the Pirate King (Pirates of Penzance), Colline (La bohème), St. Paul (in Mendelssohn's eponymous oratorio), and Boris Godunov.