Originally from Buffalo, NY, tenor John Tiranno has been hailed by The New York Times as “ardent and mellifluous” as well as a “clear-voiced tenor.” Recent and upcoming engagements include Handel’s Messiah with the Nashville Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Messiah and Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with the Santa Fe Symphony, Aronne (Mosè in Egitto) and Goro (Madama Butterfly) with Opera Southwest, and Spoletta (Tosca) with the New Mexico Philharmonic. 

Notable past performances include Berlioz's Requiem (La Jolla Symphony & Chorus), Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Paul Moravec’s The Blizzard Voices (Oratorio Society of New York), Tamino (The Magic Flute) with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Saint-Saëns’ Requiem (Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra), Mahler’s song cycle Das Lied von der Erde with ChatterABQ, creating the role of The Young Man in Gisle Kverndokk’s opera Upon this handful of earth (New York Opera Society), Bach's B minor Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, the U.S. premiere of Juraj Filas’ Oratio Spei – Requiem (Sacred Music in a Sacred Space), his South American debut in Sao Paulo singing Mozart’s Mass in C (Auditorio Ibirapuera), creating the role of Trouble in Kverndokk's Max and Moritz (New York Opera Society), Lord Tolloller in Iolanthe (Nashville Opera), Messiah (Dayton Philharmonic), and recitals at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Jedda, Saudi Arabia. 

In 2018, he formed the Young Tiranno Duo with his wife, violinist and pianist Elizabeth Young.