John Buffett

Baritone John Buffett enjoys a versatile career lending his “warm tone and ringing top” (Salt Lake Tribune) to music from the early baroque through the 21st century. Highlights of his 23/24 season included solo engagements singing both Bach passions, BWV 182, and his Coffee Cantata, Scarlatti’s Il Primo Omicidio, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Fauré's and Duruflé’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah with the Cal Poly Bach Festival, LA Master Chorale, UC Irvine, Long Beach Camerata, the New West Symphony, the Messiah Festival of the Arts, Musica Angelica, Tesserae Baroque, Bach Collegium San Diego, the Charlotte Bach Festival, and Seraphic Fire.

Buffett has been a featured soloist with the Pacific Symphony, the Utah, San Antonio, Winston-Salem, Flagstaff, and Syracuse Symphonies, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Pacific Chorale, and the Rochester Philharmonic. He has also been a featured performer with many leading Early Music Ensembles including: Apollo’s Fire, Ars Lyrica, Bach Collegium San Diego, The Boston Early Music Festival, Con Gioia, The Charlotte Bach Academy, The Oregon Bach Festival, Musica Angelica and Tesserae Baroque. Also an accomplished Chamber musician, he regularly performs with some of America’s best choral ensembles like Seraphic Fire, The Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

Solo appearances at the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center highlight other important performances. Buffett, currently on voice faculty at CSU Long Beach, and recently for UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music and the Professional Choral Institute at the Aspen Music Festival, received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music.