Chad Sloan

Biography

American baritone Chad Sloan is recognized as much for his warm, elegant vocalism as he is for deft interpretations of diverse characters. In the 2019-2020 season, Chad performed the role of Ponchel in Kevin Puts’ Silent Night with Arizona Opera, was baritone soloist in concerts with Louisville Orchestra including “A Night in Vienna” as well as Handel’s Messiah, and appeared on Kentucky Opera’s Sidecar Gala concert. Other exciting projects this season included lending his voice to the character of Tanek/Kenat in the virtual reality film THE KEY TO TIME by Roderick Cooper and Krzysztof Wolek and singing “The Porch Over the River”, a commission by A/TONAL ensemble for baritone, clarinet and piano by composer Daniel Gilliam for a concert celebrating the work of Kentucky author, activist and poet, Wendell Berry. This season also included his debut with the Evansville Philharmonic in performances of Handel’s Messiah, as well as a concert with Rob Kapilow’s series What Makes it Great.

Engagements for the past few seasons have included Pooh-Bah in The Mikado and Owen Hart in Dead Man Walking with Kentucky Opera, his debut as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Arizona Opera, Carmina Burana with the Lexington Philharmonic, Flagstaff Symphony, and South Bend Symphony, singing The Herald in Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace with Ballet-Opéra-Pantomime of Montreal, joining the Louisville Orchestra for works by Schoenberg and Mahler on their War + Peace concert and an orchestrated version of Dichterliebe on their Portrait of Robert Schumann concert, appearances with eighth blackbird in a new work titled Killing the Goat by Andrew McManus, and Fauré’s Requiem in a collaboration with the Louisville Ballet & Kentucky Opera.

Other recent engagements include Adario in Rameau’s Les Sauvages with Bourbon Baroque, Carmina Burana with Fox Valley Symphony and Columbia Pro Cantare, Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium with Louisville Choral Arts Society, Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzer at Twickenham Music Festival, Britten’s War Requiem at Lawrence Conservatory, Lee Hoiby’s This is the Rill Speaking with Opera Memphis, Prosdocimo in Rossini’s Il turco in Italia with Wolf Trap Opera and Tacoma Opera, Telemaco in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with Wolf Trap Opera, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Lexington Philharmonic, Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music with Anchorage Opera, Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette with Dayton Opera and the Bar Harbor Music Festival, the cover of Willy Wonka in The Golden Ticket with Atlanta Opera and Pluto in Telemann’s Orpheus for New York City Opera, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore with Kentucky Opera, John Brooke in Little Women with Utah Opera, and Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Bar Harbor Music Festival.

Chad is currently a Professor of Voice and voice area coordinator at the University of Louisville.

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