Jonathan Beyer is a baritone who has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Florida
Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Dallas Opera, St. Louis Opera Theater, Austin Lyric Opera, Vancouver
Opera, Opera Darmstadt, Fort Worth Opera, Hong Kong Opera, Teatro Petruzzelli, Opera Company of
Philadelphia, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera de Montreal, Royal Opera House in Oman, Chicago Lyric Opera,
Opera Naples and others. He has also appeared with the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra,
Pittsburgh Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Baton
Rouge Symphony, Vermont Symphony, Lansing Symphony, Southwest Michigan Symphony, Detroit
Symphony, the Erie Philharmonic and the Festival at Aix-en-Provence.
Mr. Beyer was a National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Competition. He was the 1 st
Place Winner at the Marian Anderson Prize for Emerging Classical Artists. He has also won the Geroge
London Foundation, Sullivan Foundation, McCammon Competition, Irma M. Cooper Competition,
Violetta DuPont Competition, Rochester’s Classical Idol, New Jersey Verismo Competition, Philadelphia
Orchestra Competition, Astral Artist Auditions, Pittsburgh Concert Society Auditions, SAI Competition,
American Opera Society Competition, the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Competition, and the
Bel Canto Foundation. He has also received awards from the Lissner, Jensen, and Solti Foundations,
Zachary, Dalis, Liederkranz, Orpheus, Liederkranz, Neue Stimmen, Palm Beach Opera, and Lynam
Competitions, Sosenko, Lanza, Iturbi, Gari and Puccini Foundations, National Opera Associations.
An avid recitalist, Mr. Beyer has performed in recital through the Vocal Arts Society, Marilyn Horne
Foundation, Carnegie Hall Foundation, Chicago Cultural Center, Judith Raskin Foundation, Bertlesmann
Foundation, Huntsville Chamber Music Guild, Pittsburgh Concert Society, Van Cliburn Foundation, Over
the Rainbow Foundation, Astral Artists, and the Marian Anderson Foundation. He has degrees from the
Curtis Institute of Music and the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
As a voice teacher, Jonathan was named the Director of the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory in 2024. He has taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of British Columbia, Montclair State Univeristy and others. Jonathan has also been seen on HGTV, the Food Network, is an official judge for the Miss America Program and is the co-host of The Skating Lesson YouTube channel.