Bryon Grohman

Tenor Bryon Grohman has received international recognition for his performances of opera, oratorio, and ensemble repertoire. He is regularly sought after for his portrayal of the Evangelist in Bach’s Johannes and Matthäus Passions, most recently performed with the Grammy-nominated ensemble Seraphic Fire and the 1st Presbyterian Church of Columbia, SC, respectively. Other noteworthy concert engagements have included Haydn’s Creation with the Florida Orchestra, Schubert’s Mass in E-flat with the New World Symphony, and Handel’s Messiah with the Bloomington Early Music Festival. He has also been a guest soloist with the Boston Modern Orchestra, Harvard-Radcliffe Symphony, Marsh Chapel of Boston University, Calvin Oratorio Society, Ann Arbor Cantata Singers, Masterchorale of South Florida, and Haagsche Hofmuzieck.

On the operatic stage, Grohman has been a leading performer with Glimmerglass Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Circle of Cleveland, Opera Boston, Opera Europa, Monte-Carlo, and Longwood Opera. Mainstage roles have included Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Don Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Spoletta in Puccini’s Tosca, Reverend Parris in The Crucible, Gilbert in Donizetti’s Lucie de Lammermoor, Joe in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, Pastore in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, and Rameau’s Pygmalion. A champion of contemporary music, he has been lauded for his cover of John Bocconion in Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur with Glimmerglass Opera as well as his portrayal of Nicholas in Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers previewed in Monte-Carlo with Opera Europa.

Formerly chair of vocal studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Grohman recently joined the music faculty of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. He holds degrees from New England Conservatory of Music, Boston (BM/MM) and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music (DM). Grohman is a native of Hazleton, Pennsylvania.