Chris Thompson, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor of Voice
208- 885-7412
christ@uidaho.edu
Palouse Opera Project (POP)

Chris Thompson, lyric baritone, earned his D.M.A. in vocal performance from the University of Kansas, his master of music from Loyola and his B. Mus. from Kansas State. He has sung with San Diego Opera, San Diego Comic Opera, Rimrock Opera, Opera Idaho, Rogue Opera, The CoOPERAtive Opera, Utah Festival Opera Company, New Orleans Opera, British Youth Opera, University of Kansas Opera, and Loyola Opera Theatre.

A strong advocate of new music, Chris has appeared in several readings and world premières including Guest from the Future with Nine Circles Chamber Theatre at Lincoln Center, The Scrimshaw Violin at An Appalachian Summer Festival, Box and Cox at the University of Utah, and Hester Prynne at Death at CUNY.

In concert, Chris has sung with the Westchester Oratorio Society, Armor Artis, Canticum Novum, The Louisiana Philharmonic, the Virgin Consort, St. Jean's Choral Society, Augustana Oratorio Society, the Kansas City Youth Symphony, the Rogue Valley Chorale, the University of Kansas Symphony and Wind Ensemble, and the Fort Hays State University Orchestra in works such as: B minor Mass (Bach), Magnificat (Bach), St. John and St. Matthew Passions (Bach), the Requiem masses of Brahms, Faure, and Willan, Messiah and Judas Maccabeus (Handel), Te Deum (Dvorak), Verspers (Monteverdi), Christmas Oratorio (Saint-Saens), Hodie (Vaughan Williams), African Portraits (Peterson), and Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams).

Chris is a founding member of the Quinn Arts Players in which he has collaborated with actors and musicians on original works by New York author and poet Terry Quinn for the Nathaniel Hawthorne bicentennial (2004) and premiered new music projects based on poems from Mad for New Yorktown. In addition, Chris made his Off-Broadway debut as Daniel Keane in Fermat's Last Tango (Original Cast Recordings) and is a featured soloist on the recently released CD of music by Joshua Rosenblum, Impetuosities (Albany Records).