In the 2024-25 season, Canadian tenor Andrew Haji makes his debuts with the Chicago Symphony in Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with conductor Manfred Honeck, the Cleveland Orchestra in Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Magnificat and NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover, Germany for Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with conductor Bernard Labadie. He returns to Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Bach’s St. John Passion (Evangelist), Les Violons du Roy and Houston Symphony in Handel’s Messiah, and Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society in Haydn’s The Seasons and Beethoven’s Mass in C-Major. Other notable performances this season include Mozart’s Requiem with the Kansas City Symphony, the title role in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito at Pacific Opera Victoria, and Dompierre’s Requiem with the Festival Classica.
Recent orchestral highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth with Milwaukee Symphony and National Arts Center Orchestra, Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion with the Seattle Symphony and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Haydn’s The Creation with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s Requiem at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Elora Festival.
Notable opera successes include Cassio in Verdi’s Otello at Canadian Opera Company, Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth and Pollione in Bellini’s Norma at Calgary Opera, Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème at Edmonton Opera, Jonathan in Handel’s Saul at Edinburgh International Festival, Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan, Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at National Arts Center in Ottawa, Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata with the Vancouver Opera, and Alfredo in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus with Saskatoon Opera.
Haji is an alumnus of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio. He has received awards from the Marilyn Horne Song Competition, the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble and was awarded the Grand Prix at the 50th International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, and the Oratorio Prize at the Montreal International Music Competition. Andrew received a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music.
