ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Daniel Ebbers, professor of voice, joined the faculty of the University of the Pacific in the fall of 2004. From 2015 to 2017, he served as the interim dean of the Conservatory. He holds the Bachelor of Music degree in voice from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and the Master of Music degree in voice from the University of Southern California. At the Conservatory of Music, Professor Ebbers teaches vocal performance and has been the managing director and instructor at the Pacific Opera Institute. In addition to one of his students winning the Met National Council auditions, his students are singing on stages all over the world and have been regulars at many high-profile performing venues including the Met and organizations such as the New York Philharmonic; the Houston Grand, Santa Fe, and San Francisco Operas; and the Music Academy of the West.

Highlights of Daniel Ebbers’s performances include a critically acclaimed appearance as Sir Bedivere with baritone Thomas Hampson at the Washington National Cathedral in Elinor Remick Warren’s The Legend of King Arthur. As an artist-in-residence with the Los Angeles Opera, Mr. Ebbers has performed as Gastone in La traviata and covered leading roles including Don Ottavio, Albert Herring, Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Ernesto, and Lindoro (L’italiana in Algeri). An accomplished concert soloist, he has appeared with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony in Israel, and twice at both Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Mr. Ebbers has performed at both Chicago’s new Orchestra Hall and the Chicago Lyric Opera in Handel’s Messiah. A distinguished Mozart interpreter, he has appeared as Don Ottavio with Opera Theater of Connecticut, Belmonte in San Diego Comic Opera’s production of Abduction from the Seraglio, as tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, at the Rudolfinum in Prague. His other mainstay roles have been the Duke of Mantua in Anchorage Opera’s production of Rigoletto, Cassio in Otello with Greensboro Opera, and Prince Edwin in The Gypsy Princess with the San Diego Comic Opera.

Daniel Ebbers’s most recent solo appearance was a world premiere with the Cheungju Symphony, South Korea, of Ho Jun Lee’s Cantata for traditional Korean percussion, chorus, and tenor solo. He has appeared with the Sacramento Opera as Cassio in Verdi’s Otello, Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro, and Beppe in Pagliacci. His other recent engagements include Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville and Fenton in Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Mr. Ebbers has appeared in concert with the prestigious Music in the Vineyards Festival, the Stockton Chorale in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, the Napa Valley Chorale singing Dvořák’s Mass in D in addition to Mozart’s Mass in C minor. In research and performance, Mr. Ebbers is regarded as an expert in the music of Benjamin Britten. He recently appeared in the title role of