“Hamilton’s Bud Roach has a fantastic, bright tenor voice, and the works of Bach and Handel seem to flow effortlessly out of him.”
CBC
2024 – 2025 Highlights
February 25: Spiritus Ensemble, Kitchener-Waterloo, Bach Cantata #109
February 27: Lecture-Recital, “Rhetorical Responsibility in self-accompanied Early Modern Song,” University of Toronto.
March 22: Messiah, Nota Bene Baroque Players, Hanover.
March 23: Messiah, Nota Bene Baroque Players, Dundas.
March 24: Messiah, Nota Bene Baroque Players, Kitchener.
March 29: Mozart Mass, K. 427, Choral Connection, St. Thomas.
April 6: Mozart Requiem, Redeemer College, Ancaster.
April 28: Spiritus Ensemble, Bach Cantata #9.
May 29: Toronto Consort Explorer Series: “Aiming for Eloquence in Early Modern Song.”
July 6: Capella Intima, “Sacra Italia,” for Hammer Baroque.
August 24: Porter and Berlin with the Hamilton Philharmonic String Quartet (Eclectic Local).
September 28: Lecture-Recital, “The Unstoppable Chitarra Spagnola,” Communities of Print conference, University of Toronto.
October 10: Recital, “From Court to Country,” Midtown Concert Series (Gotham Early Music Scene), New York.
October 27: Spiritus Ensemble, Bach Cantata 149.
November 3: Schutz, Musikalisches Exequien, Music at Met series, Toronto.
November 23: Messiah, Oakville Masterworks Chorale.
November 24: Messiah, Oakville Masterworks Chorale.
December 13: Messiah, Hamilton Philharmonic-Bach Elgar Choir.
December 15: Messiah, Hamilton Philharmonic-Bach Elgar Choir.
February 7, 2025: Leading Capella Intima and Gallery Players, “Vice and Virtue,” North Winds Concerts, Toronto.
February 8, 2025: Leading Capella Intima and Gallery Players, “Vice and Virtue,” Hammer Baroque, Hamilton
February 9, 2025: Leading Capella Intima and Gallery Players, “Vice and Virtue,” Gallery Players, St. Catharines.
February 20, 2025: Solo recital, “From Court to Country,” St. James Cathedral, Toronto.
March 23, 2025: Steffani and Handel, Spiritus Ensemble, Kitchener-Waterloo.
Late March, 2025: “Love Songs,” Claude Vivier, with Soundstreams Canada. (Tour dates in Canada and Dublin, Ireland, TBA)
April 18, 2025: Bach Mass in B Minor, Choral Connection, St. Thomas.
2023 Autumn Highlights
August 9-16 Residency at Canadian Music Centre, Vancouver (Development, Songs of a Former Criminal)
October 14 Beethoven Symphony No. 9, London Symphonia
November 4 Solo Recital, Venice Music Project ( Scuola Grande dei Carmini, Venice, Italy)
November 10 Solo Recital, Umbria Above ( Palazzo Mischiatelli, Orvieto, Italy)
November 25 Messiah, Oakville Masterworks Chorale
November 26 Messiah, Oakville Masterworks Chorale
November 27 Messiah, National Academy Orchestra, Hamilton
December 1 Messiah, Redeemer College (Ancaster)
December 2 Messiah, Redeemer College (Hamilton)
December 16 Messiah, Choral Connection, St. Thomas
2022-2023 Season Highlights
September 23, 2022
Performance-Lecture
Caldara Symposium, Sydney Conservatory of Music (online)
October 6, 2022
Performance-Lecture
Vilnius Conservatory (online)
November 12, 2022 Worship in a Time of Plague, Capella Intima, Hammer Baroque, Hamilton
November 12, 2022 Worship in a Time of Plague, Capella Intima, Schutzfest 350, Toronto
November 13, 2022 Worship in a Time of Plague, Capella Intima, Gallery Players, St. Catharines
November 16, 2022 Baroque Christmas, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Capella Intima, Kitchener
November 18, 2022 Baroque Christmas, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Capella Intima, Guelph
November 19, 2022 Baroque Christmas, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Capella Intima, Cambridge
November 26, 2022 Bach Cantatas, Bach Elgar Choir, Hamilton
December 3, 2022 Messiah, Arcady, Port Dover
December 4, 2022 Bach Christmas Oratorio, Spiritus Ensemble, Kitchener
December 5, 2022 Messiah, National Academy Orchestra, Hamilton
December 6, 2022 Messiah, National Academy Orchestra, Burlington
December 9, 2022 Praetorius Christmas Vespers, Toronto Consort
December 10, 2022 Praetorius Christmas Vespers, Toronto Consort
February 5, 2023 Bach Cantatas, Spiritus Ensemble, Kitchener-Waterloo
April 2, 2023 Bach and Handel, Spiritus Ensemble, Kitchener-Waterloo
May, 2023 Solo recitals, Hamilton and Toronto
June, 2023 Solo recitals, Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series
August 9-16, 2023 Workshop (CCA funded) “Songs of a Former Criminal” (Jeffrey Ryan), CMC Vancouver
2019-2020 Season Highlights
September 14-15, 2019
Solo Recitals
Venice Music Project, Italy
October 3, 2019
The Merry Widow
Brott Opera, Hamilton (St.Brioche)
October 18, 2019
Duo recital with guitarist James Renwick
University of Toronto
October 27, 2019
Bach cantatas
Spiritus Ensemble, Kitchener- Waterloo
November 13-17, 2019
“Two Odysseys”
Soundstreams, Toronto
November 30, 2019
Messiah
Arcady Ensemble
December 1, 2019
Messiah
Spiritus Ensemble, Kitchener-Waterloo
December 2-3, 2019
Messiah
National Academy Orchestra, Hamilton
December 7, 2019
Capella Intima
K-W Chamber Music Society, Kitchener-Waterloo
December 13-15, 2019
Schutz Christmas Vespers
Toronto Consort, Toronto
December 28, 2019
Capella Intima
Hammer Baroque, Hamilton
February 2020
Lecture/Recital
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
March 5, 2020
Solo recital
Midtown Concert Series, New York
March 8, 2020
Mozart Solem Vespers / Haydn St. Nicholas Mass
Mississauga Choral Society, Mississauga
March 22, 2020 – CANCELLED
Bach St. John Passion
Spiritus Ensemble, Kitchener-Waterloo
March 29, 2020 – CANCELLED
Mozart Requiem
Choralis Camerata
May 6-9, 2020 – CANCELLED
Claude Vivier’s “Musik fur das Ende”
Soundstreams Canada, Toronto
May 28-June 6, 2020 – CANCELLED
Musik fur das Ende
European tour (Hamburg, Bruges, Rotterdam)
June, 2020
Duo art song recital
Linden Project, Hamilton
July 26, 2020 – CANCELLED
Musik fur das Ende,
Soundstreams Canada, Ottawa