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 Mischa Bouvier
Baritone
Shirley, NY
email: mischabouvier@hotmail.com
Baritone Mischa Bouvier is a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where he earned a Master’s in Voice. While at CCM, Mischa performed as Le Medecin in Pelléas et Mélisande and Bouncer/Washington Dandy in The Ballad of Baby Doe. He was twice a participant of CCM’s Grandin Festival where he presented a set of Stravinsky songs coached by clarinetist Charles Neidich, and worked closely with Lori Laitman for a performance of her song cycle Men with Small Heads. Previously, Mischa completed a Bachelor’s in Voice at Boston University where he studied with recognized baritone William Sharp. At Boston University, Mischa was heard as Pinellino in Gianni Schicchi and as the Usher in Trial by Jury.
Mischa’s solo concert experience has included performances of Handel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices, and numerous Bach cantatas, all with Cincinnati Baroque. He has sung Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Lebanon Symphony Orchestra, and more recently was featured soloist for the Covenant Music Series in Huntsville, AL, were he performed Bach’s BWV 8 and BWV 56. This past spring, Mischa sang Vaughan-Williams’s Five Mystical Songs with the St. Thomas Episcopal Choirs in Cincinnati, and returned for a second season as baritone soloist for the Beyer Musical Society Series at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Other concert works performed include Handel’s Nisi Dominus and Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore.
Mischa was an Apprentice Artist with Lyric Opera Cleveland this past summer. While at LOC, Mischa was seen as the Officer in The Barber of Seville and Caroler #4 in She Loves Me, and he covered the roles of William in The Fall of the House of Usher and Georg in She Loves Me. He has participated twice in the Internationale Meisterkurse für Musik in Zurich under the direction of renowned Swiss tenor Ernst Haefliger. Mischa was the recipient of the Boston University Ella Lou Dimmock Award in 2000 and a finalist in the Oratorio Society on New York’s 29th Annual Solo Competition.
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