The San Francisco Chronicle recognizes Chad as among the “who’s who of Bay Area operatic luminaries” (SF Chronicle), known for his “uniquely personal and eloquent” performances (Stage Magazine). The current season sees Chad take on the role of Curley in Floyd’s Of Mice and Men with Livermore Valley Opera, and he will return to Opera Modesto to create the role of Sherlock Holmes in the world premiere of Meier’s Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant. Chad will also cover the roles of Bobby Riggs and Hans Sachs’ Trainer in Opera Parallèl’s Birds and Balls double-world premiere-bill of Vinkensport (Little) and Balls (Karpman)—an opera about Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs’ Battle of the Sexes. Finally, Chad is greatly anticipating creating the role of Boy in West Edge Opera’s commission of the opera Bulrusher from Nat Stookey and Eisa Davis. On the concert stage, Chad joins Stockton Chorale and Orchestra to sing the tenor soloist in Finzi’s Intimations of Immortality and the Marin Symphony for their Lord Nelson Mass. In June, Chad will give a reprise performance of last year’s premiere of Lori Laitman’s orchestral song cycle Becoming a Redwood with the Livermore Amador Symphony under the baton of Lara Webber.

Most recently on the opera stage, Chad appeared as Albert/Tenor in Copeland’s 2012 The Tell-Tale Heart as well as creating the role of the Lover-Narrator in Kavasch’s operatic adaptation of Poe’s Annabel both with Opera Modesto. Chad appeared as Fritz in Offenbach’s The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein with Pocket Opera and Kudrjaš in West Edge Opera’s Kat'a Kabanova. He received specific praise for his “resplendent” singing that brought “freshness and wit to the performance” for the latter (SF Chronicle).

In recent concert work, Chad sang Saint Nicolas in Britten’s Saint Nicolas as a guest artist with MBU and Chorale Society in St. Louis in addition to appearing as the tenor soloist in Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2: Lobegesang with Sacramento Choral and Orchestra Society as well as Laitman’s Becoming a Redwood with the Sonoma Philharmonic.

Chad appeared as the tenor soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with Stockton Chorale and the tenor in The Messiah as a guest soloist with Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, MO. The Sacramento Choral and Orchestra Society featured Chad as the Headlining Soloist with Wells Fargo Home for the Holidays Concert. He sang the tenor soloist for Bach 191 and Mozart’s Regina Coeli with Maui Chamber Orchestra in addition to singing Brahms’ Liebeslieder for MCO.

An advocate for contemporary music, Chad has enjoyed collaborating with composers such Jake Heggie on the east coast premiere of Out of Darkness, Helmut Lachenmann on Zwei Gefülle… for voice and orchestra, Adam Guettel on his expanded version of The Light in the Piazza, and Reese Revak, originating the role of the Narrator in his award-winning The Black Cat. Chad joined Ensemble ID in Rochester, NY to perform Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King.

Chad has premiers with West Edge Opera, Opera Parallèl, Opera Modesto, Philadelphia Opera Collective, Philadelphia Composers’ Ink and Eastman School of Music. He premiered Curlee’s song cycle A Shropshire Lad as well as Revak’s A Song Symphony, and joined OSSIA New Music to perform Babbitt’s Two Sonnets as well as giving a concert with LyricFest in Philadelphia. 

Winner of the Philadelphia Classical Singer Competition, finalist for Friends of Eastman Opera Competition. He was previously an Artist in Residence at Opera Saratoga. Doctor of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music. He maintains an active studio in Lafayette, CA, and and teaches voice at San Joaquin Delta College. When not singing, you can find him hiking through Briones Regional Park with his wife and two children in Martinez, CA.

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