This season baritone DANIEL TEADT appeared in Jonathan Kupper’s The Monkey’s Paw and Katarzyna Brochocka's Happy Garden of Life with The Microscopic Opera Company. He was a guest artist at WQED’s honoring of Byron Janis wherein he and the pianist performed selections of Mr Janis‘ Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Mr Teadt performed recitals with Pittsburgh Song Collaborative, the Friends of Music Guild and the Music in the Country Art Song Series. He was baritone soloist in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with Clarion University and Carmina Burana at Susquehanna University. He also appeared in Pittsburgh Opera’s production of Dialogues of the Carmelites. Recently Mr Teadt made critically acclaimed role debuts as Valentin in Faust with the Tacoma Opera and Folco in Montemezzi’s L’incantesimo with Opera Theater Pittsburgh and was the baritone soloist in the West Coast Premiere of Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina with the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Other notable debuts include the Count in the Aix-en- Provençe Festival's production of Le nozze di Figaro, Cyrano with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, GRAMMY AWARD winning performances of Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Count with the Arizona Opera in a production directed by Sir Thomas Allen. An alumnus of the Pittsburgh Opera Center, his roles there include Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Donald in Billy Budd, Marcello in La bohème, Dandini in La Cenerentola, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Moralès in Carmen, Curio in Giulio Cesare and the title role in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria. Mr Teadt has also performed roles with Central City Opera, Opera Theater of St Louis, Anchorage Opera, Tri-Cities Opera and toured nationally with the San Francisco Opera. On the concert stage, he has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Pacific Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, I Pomeriggi Musicale di Milano, Johnstown Symphony, Danville Symphony, New Haven Symphony and San Francisco Opera Orchestra. As a recitalist he has performed throughout the United States and Europe including appearances with the Ravinia Festival, Aix-en-Provençe Festival, The New York Festival of Song, Pittsburgh Song Collaborative and San Francisco Opera’s Schwabacher Debut Recitals. His accolades include a Mattheus Sullivan Foundation Grant, Theodore Uppman Memorial Award from the George London Foundation, Gonzalus Vocal Competition Prize, top honors from the Palm Beach Opera and MacAllister Opera Awards as well as being recently voted Pittsburgh Magazine’s 2010 Best Local Artist. Mr Teadt maintains teaching positions at Washington & Jefferson College and Clarion University. He earned both his Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana where he studied with John Wustman.