Joseph Schnurr

.... graduated in 2005 with honors from the Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. In 2005 he moved to Berlin, where he studied at the Hans Eisler School of Music. In the 2015–16 season he sang, among other engagements, the role of Tamino for the Munich Philharmonic; the dance master in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos with the Pacific Opera Victoria, in Canada; Dr. Blind in Fledermaus with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra (Canada); and the evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion and Christmas Oratorio. He has been a soloist in numerous operas and oratorios in Europe and Canada, including in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Titus, Haydn’s Creation, Handel’s Messiah, the Bach Passions, Mozart’s Requiem, Schubert’s Mass in E-flat major, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in the Berlin Philharmonic.