BRIAN MING CHU, BASS

A specialist in oratorio music, Brian is a regular soloist with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, the Washington Bach Consort, and has performed Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation, Verdi’s Requiems, and the Bach Passions.  Additional credits include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, Ludwig Meinardus’ Luther in Worms with the Bach Choir Eisenach and the Dresden Singakademie. Mr. Chu made his Kennedy Center debut in Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with the Choral Arts Society of Washington and has been a US Embassy Cultural Artist in French West Africa and Vienna, Austria. Mr. Chu holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Cornell University and did his graduate work at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Teaching on the voice faculties of Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, Lehigh University, and Rowan University, he brings critical thinking from the performer’s perspective to his analytical approach to pedagogy.