“Outstanding…the highlight of the evening” R. Todd, OTTAWA CITIZEN

“A finely honed Tamino” JJ.Van Vlasseur, LE DROIT

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Audiences always welcome tenor DILLON PARMER for a voice that “breathes warmth and lyricism” in performances critics call “particularly rewarding,” “finely honed,” and “outstanding.”

He has been heard on CBC radio and television and has been engaged by numerous companies such as Opera Lyra Ottawa, I Musici de Montreal, the Nathanial Dett Chorale, Seventeen Voyces, Thirteen Strings, Gatineau Chamber Orchestra, Musica Divina, L’orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières, Timmins Symphony Orchestra, L’orchestra symphonique du nouveau monde, Choeur classique de l’Outaouais, Canadian Centennial Choir, Opera Breva, and Productions lyrique de Gatineau.

He is a versatile oratorio singer with a repertoire spanning many major concert work. He is equally at ease in Bach's Mass in B Minor or Britten’s Saint Nicolas, Handel’s Messiah or Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten, Mozart's Requiem or Mendelssohn's Elijah, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Rossini’s Stabat Mater.

His stage work spans a variety of operatic roles from Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and Die Zauberflöte, through Donizetti’s Betly and Rita, Offenbach’s La Périchole and Barbe-bleue, to Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites and Moore’s Gallantry.

An expert in the avant garde, he has premiered Gagné’s Menaud, Sasso’s Fortune’s Favorite, Rival’s It Can Be Done, Weisensel’s Gisella in the Bathtub, Nicol’s The Christmas Rose, and Smith Moore’s Nobel Prize-nominated Scenes from The Life of a Martyr at the Toronto Center for Performing Arts.

Upcoming engagements include guest appearances in an Opera Gala, Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne, and Bach’s Saint John Passion.