Jon Truitt, Associate Professor, Voice, Opera, Head of Vocal Area

M.M. Baylor University, D.M.A., Louisiana State University, voice

Office: Room 101, Fine Arts

Telephone: 812-488-2758

e-mail:jt82@evansville.edu

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A native of Houston, Texas, Jon Truitt has performed with professional opera companies across the United States, such as New Orleans Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Mobile Opera, Pensacola Opera, Asheville Lyric Opera, St. Petersburg Opera, Opera Illinois, the Crested Butte Music Festival, Jacksonville Opera, and the Jefferson Performing Arts Society. He as appeared as Figaro in Barber of Seville, Marcello in La Boheme, Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni, Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Ford in Falstaff, Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore, and more than forty other roles in the baritone repertoire.  On the concert stage, he has sung with the Evansville, Jacksonville, Acadiana, Waco, Florimezzo, Baylor, and LSU symphonies and in numerous public solo recitals. He is also a two-time apprentice artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera, a Metropolitan Opera Regional Finalist, and a NATSAA Indiana State Winner. In addition, he was a 2007 winner of the prestigious Lynam Competition in North Carolina. A frequent collaborator with noted American composer Richard Faith, he performed the title role in the world premiere of Faith’s Scenes from Macbeth and also sang the premiere of the song cycle Songs from the Voice of Gaia. Additionally, he is the founder of the Crested Butte Music Festival's Opera Young Artist Program in Paradise, which has become a well-known program training operatic artists from across the United States. He is building a national reputation as a stage director, having recently directed le nozze di Figaro, Hansel and Gretel, Tartuffe, Barber of Seville, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Die Fledermaus, La Boheme, Don Giovanni, the Elixir of Love, Gianni Schicchi, and Suor Angelica.  

Currently, Jon Truitt is an Associate Professor and serves as the Head of the Voice Area and Director of Opera at the University of Evansville, a highly ranked small liberal arts college in the Midwest. While teaching there his students have been featured in many choral and operatic performances, and some have gone on to professional performing and important graduate programs. Others are already making their mark in the fields of music therapy, music education, sacred music, or in the world of music business.

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