William Hite is critically-acclaimed artist who has appeared in opera, concert, chamber music and solo recital in a career that has spanned over three decades. His reputation as an expressive and engaging artist has led to appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Odyssey Opera, Dresdner Philharmonie, American Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Evansville Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Boston Baroque, Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque, Washington Bach Consort, New York City Ballet, the Mark Morris Dance Group and Emmanuel Music, under the direction of Bernard Haitink, Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Christopher Warren-Green, Nicholas McGegan, Jane Glover, Robert Spano, Grant Llewellyn, Gil Rose, Leon Botstein, John Harbison, Julian Wachner and Peter Schreier.

Mr. Hite’s upcoming engagements include Britten’s Serenade for Tenor and Horn with Emmanuel Music (Boston) and Schubert’s Winterreise with Mohawk Trail Concerts. Recent engagements include Rosner’s The Chronical of Nine with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Handel’s Solomon and Finzi’s A Farewell to Arms with the Cantata Singers, the St. Matthew Passion the UMass Amherst Bach Festival, Messiah with Chicago’s Apollo Chorus, Gluck’s Ezio with Odyssey Opera, Elijah with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and Britten’s War Requiem at Symphony Hall in Boston. Hite’s operatic credits include the title role in the world premiere of Eric Sawyer’s opera The Scarlet Professor, Massimo in Gluck’s Ezio with Odyssey Opera, Mozart’s Apollo et Hyancithus with Emmanuel Music, leading roles in The Rake’s Progress, Acis and Galatea, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, L’Ormindo (Cavalli), and Euridice (Peri). His numerous performances at the Boston Early Music Festival include Matthison’s Boris Goudenow and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Mr. Hite created the role of Chevrus in The Garden of Martyrs by Eric Sawyer. New music premieres include pieces by Theodore Antoniou, Ellen Ruehr, Lew Spratlan, Scott Wheeler and Salvatore Macchia.

Mr. Hite’s extensive discography now contains over 40 recordings spanning a wide spectrum of musical idioms. He may be heard in The Complete Songs of Virgil Thomson for voice and piano on New World Records, Messiah on Clarion, Acis and Galatea on NCA, the St. John Passion on Koch, and Mozart Requiem on Denon. William Hite has sung in music festivals at Tanglewood, Santa Fe, Token Creek, and Vancouver and at the Athens Festival, Festival Mitte Europa, Holland Early Music Festival and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. He is an Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Please visit www.williamhitetenor.com