8 at Carnegie Hall with the Canterbury Choral Society, and a recital at the Kennedy Center after winning Vocal Arts DC’s 2017 Art Song Competition. Myers’s additional recent performances include Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, Mahler’s Symphony No. That same season, Myers returned to the LA Phil to participate in a new production of John Cage’s Europeras 1 & 2 in collaboration with The Industry and under the direction of Yuval Sharon. Directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer, prisoner of the state was released as an album on the Decca Gold label in June 2020. Myers made his New York Philharmonic debut in the 2018-2019 season in the world premiere of David Lang’s fully staged opera, prisoner of the state. Additionally, he make his orchestral debut with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia singing Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings and returns to Grant Park Music Festival for Britten’s Spring Symphony with Carlos Kalmar. Myers also sings the role of Flavio in Bellini’s Norma with Teatro Regio di Parma in Parma, Italy. In the 2021-2022 season, Myers returns to the Metropolitan Opera, covering productions of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, and debuting in Brett Dean’s Hamlet as Offstage Voice - Tenor 1. Additionally, he has been presented in recital by the Harvard Musical Association and featured in performances of Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with the Jacksonville Symphony. In recent seasons Myers has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera covering roles in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Myers’s breakout performance was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “brightly lighted to match his declaiming voice.” He has garnered acclaim for his “lovely, warm tenor of considerable promise” ( Opera News), “possesses a voice of vocal grandeur” ( The Morning Call) “insightful and beautifully nuanced performances” ( Fort Worth Star-Telegram). He has collaborated with companies such as the New York Philharmonic, Verbier Festival, Santa Fe Opera and LA Opera, and he made his surprise Los Angeles Philharmonic debut in 2017 as Mao in John Adams’s Nixon in China conducted by the composer. Myers has cited actors like Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Christian Bale, Daniel Radcliffe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Robert Belushi, Michael Sellers, Bryan Perkins, Jake Epstein, Kiefer Sutherland, Ryan Reynolds, Tyson Houseman, David Arquette, Mark Wahlberg, Avan Jogia, Eric McCormack, Robert Redford, Kholan Studi and Andrew Garfield as his influences.Tenor John Matthew Myers, declared an “artist to watch” by Opera News, has rapidly established himself as one of today's exceptional young voices. He has younger sisters Sunday Molly Myers and Paulina Myers. His father is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent and His mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish (from Poland and Russia), Cree First Nations, English, French-Canadian, German, Italian, Scottish, Swiss and Welsh descent. Myers was born in Toronto to Mike Myers and Kelly Tisdale.
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