2009, has proved to be a fruitful year for Lyric tenor Brad Wisk winning the Nicholas Loren Competition, second place in The Santa Barbara Performing Arts Foundation Competition and an additional scholarship from the L.A Opera Buffs. Described as having ” an alluring rich color and exceptional spinning stratospheric top notes, ” and “a tall dark drink of a leading man”, he has begun his journey into the leading tenor repertoire.
Brad is a graduate of the prestigious Indiana University where he was privileged to study with legendary Basso Giorgio Tozzi. At IU, as an undergraduate, he sang the baritone roles of St. Brioche in The Merry Widow and the Bouncer/Politician in The Ballad of Baby Doe with the IU Opera Theater. He furthered his education at the Manhattan School of Music where he received his Masters Degree in 2007. With the Manhattan School Opera Center he sang the role of the Doctor in Vanessa before switching to tenor in his final year, then singing Tinca in Il Tabarro and Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi. After Manhattan School he furthered his transition to tenor by taking on Goro in Madama Butterfly at Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance program.
Most recently, he has spent the past two summer seasons at Utah Festival Opera, where he covered the roles of Tony in West Side Story and Don José in Carmen completing his transition to a leading tenor. This spring he will be singing at UCLA as the lead tenor in Flight by Jonathan Dove. His current repertory includes Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Arturo in I Puritani, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Ruggiero in La Rondine, Roméo in Roméo et Juiliette, Nadir in Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Il Duca di Manotova in Rigoletto, and Macduff in Macbeth. Brad has made his home in New York City and L.A, where he continues vocal studies with noted New York Pedagogue Michael Paul, along with Gualtiero Negrini, Val Underwood, Nicholas Loren, and Scott Rednour.