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The American tenor, Brian Skoog, obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Alabama (2005-2010) and his Master of Music in Vocal Performance (2011-2013) and Post-graduate Certificate (2013-2015) from the Cleveland Institute of Music. After graduation, he trained at the Aspen Opera Theater Center (June-August 2013), Central City Opera (May-August 2014), Dayton Opera (February-May 2017), Nashville Opera (January-April 2018), Pensacola Opera, and Toledo Opera (August 2016-February 2017).
Brian Skoog is known for his "vocal power" (San Diego Story) and "fine lyric tenor” (Toledo Blade). In the summer of 2023, he made his role debut as Tempo in George Frideric Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Opera Neo in San Diego, California (July 2023). He also appeared as Mozart in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri with The Cleveland Opera (May 2023) and covered the role of Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor with Druid City Opera. In 2022-2023 season, he gave concert performances of L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (April 2023), Briggs’s Requiem (October 2022), Michael Haydn's Requiem, (March 2023), W.A. Mozart's Coronation Mass (November 2022), W.A. Mozart's Requiem (January 2023) and two performances of G.F. Handel’s Messiah (December 2022). He also appeared as a special guest of the Cleveland Women's Orchestra (February 2019). Recent seasons include operatic roles with Central City Opera (June-August 2018), The Cleveland Opera (2020-2021), Cleveland Opera Theater, Dayton Opera, Nashville Opera (April 2018), Opera Fayetteville, Opera Neo (December 2022-December 2023), Pensacola Opera (2019-2020), Toledo Opera, and Utah Festival Opera (2017-2018).
Brian Skoog is an active performer of oratorio and concert work across the USA. In 2023-2024 season, he joined the Toledo Symphony for G.F. Handel's Messiah (December 2023) and W.A. Mozart's Requiem (February 2024), both under the baton of Alain Trudel. In recent seasons, he has appeared as a repeat soloist with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, performing G.F. Handel’s Messiah (Decvember 2016) as well as music by J.S. Bach and L.v. Beethoven (October 2017). In February 2020, he performed Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with the Heights Chamber Orchestra. A champion of new music and living composers, He was recently the tenor soloist for the world premiere of Margaret Brouwer's environmental oratorio Voice of the Lake (November 2017). Seen and Heard International praised his "brilliant" singing and called him “one of the highlights.” His performance of The Lake was included on a 2022 album of Brouwer's compositions on the Naxos label. In Fewbruary 2022, he gave the world premiere of the song cycle Quarantine Poems for Tenor and Three Bassoons by Ryan Charles Ramer, a studio recording of which was released in 2023. Hae currently lives in Chicago, Illinois. |
