ABOUT

Grayson Nesbitt is a young tenor hailing from Canada's National Capital Region. He is currently in his second year of study with soprano Jackalyn Short and will recieve his Master of Music degree from Western University this coming Spring. His voice, as described by colleagues and industry professionals alike, has a certain innocent purity and warmth which lends itself well to lyric roles and art song from the impressionism movement. Recent roles include: Frederic in UWOpera's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, Gherardo in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with UWOpera last year, Monostatos in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte having been described as “slimy but funny” in the National Capital Opera Society’s Spring 2016 newsletter, Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore  with the South Ottawa Performing Arts Collective, and Joe Crowell in Ned Rorem’s Our Town in OperaNUOVA’s Vocal Arts Festival 2015. Combining his love of learning languages, and his desire to do more obscure repertoire, Grayson is currently studying Japanese and Ukrainian art song, their respective styles, the histories that influenced those styles, and their subject matter.