Graham Thomson

3^rd Prize Winner
2009 Brian Law Opera Scholarship Competition

Biography prepared by Renate Chartrand from information submitted by the artist with his application for the 9^th Brian Law Opera Scholarship Competition on 21 November 2009.

Tenor Graham Thomson, 28, is a member of Opera Lyra Ottawa’s Opera Studio with whom he has performed as First Armed Man in the Silver Cast of The Magic Flute. This October he is playing the Rooster in The Bremen Town Musicians on area school tours. He holds degrees in Vocal Performance: Bachelor of Music, University of Western Ontario in 2003 and Master of Music, McGill University in 2006. Graham also trained with the Emerging Artist Program at the Calgary Opera in 2007-2008. Recent performances include Argirio in Tancredi (Summer Opera Lyric Theatre), Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Jeunesses Musicales), and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus (Opera Nuova), and an appearance in La donna del lago with Opera in Concert.