Luke Scott new300x1000Luke Scott, described by the Hartford Courant as a baritone with an attractive voice filled with rich and powerful resonances, has performed leading roles of Handel, Mozart, Puccini, and Verdi with Orchestras and Opera companies in Canada and the US. A graduate of The Hartt School Music and Bel Canto Scholarship Foundation grant winner his recent credits include Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) Opera on the Avalon, Malatesta (Don Pasquale) Salt Marsh Opera, Peter (Hansel und Gretel) Opera Theater of CT, Escamillo (Carmen) One World Symphony, Taddeo (L’Italiana in Algeri) Taconic Opera, Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro) Martina Arroyo foundation, the title roles in (Gianni Schicchi) and (Don Giovanni) Connecticut Lyric Opera. Concert and symphony appearances range from Brahms Requiem with the Newburyport Chorale Society, Mozart Requiem with Connecticut Virtuosi Orchestra, Handel Messiah with Cathedral Orchestra of Norwich, Caramoor Bel Canto festival, Handel Alexander’s Feast and Judas Maccabaeus with New Haven Chorale, soloist with Cape Cod Symphony, clinician with El Sistema orchestra in Venezuela, and a winner of the New England Concerto competition. Luke began last season with engagements of Sharpless (Madame Butterfly) Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Basilio (Il Barbiere di siviglia), Ford (Falstaff), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Albert (Werther), Argante (Rinaldo) and Marcello in (La Boheme). Mr. Scott has received awards from the Martina Arroyo Foundation, the American Prize in opera, Bel Canto Scholarship Foundation, Chautauqua Inst., Amici Foundation, Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year, Violetta Dupont Foundation, and Gerda Lissner Foundation.