Benjamin Butterfield

Tenor Benjamin Butterfield enjoys an international career as one of Canada's most successful and sought-after artists. He has performed to critical acclaim throughout North America and Europe and most recently also in Israel and New Zealand. The San Francisco Examiner has described him as "...a master of [Bach] literature..."

In concert Mr. Butterfield has been a guest performer with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert, Bruno Weil and the Carmel Bach Festival ("Best debuting artist in the '96 season" by The San Francisco Chronicle) and with Nicholas McGegan and The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He has been heard at the BBC Proms, Carnegie Hall, and on TV broadcasts of Messiah from Halle, Germany.

As a popular recording artist, he has made many recordings of the music of Bach, Britten, Schütz and Haydn (CBC, Koch, Marquis) with the American Bach Soloists, the Aldeburgh Connection, and Tafelmusik and most recently with the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra singing French and German opera arias. His operatic credits include debuts in The Barber of Seville under Carlo Rizzi at Welsh National Opera, The Magic Flute with New York City Opera, Tamerlano, directed by Jonathan Miller, at Glimmerglass Opera conducted by Jane Glover and in Die Fledermaus with Edmonton opera. Other credits include Cosi fan tutte, Don Pasquale, Cunning Little Vixen, Eugene Onegin, and Turn of the Screw. Future engagements include recordings for Sony Classics, Pearl Fishers with Calgary Opera, and Jephtha with the Rias Kammerchor in Europe.