Rodrick Dixon possesses a tenor voice of extraordinary range and versatility that has earned him the respect and attention of leading conductors, orchestras and opera companies throughout North America.

Notable operatic engagements include Los Angeles Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Netherlands Opera, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Radio Italiana Torino (Italy), Michigan Opera Theater, Todi Music Festival, Portland Opera, Opera Columbus, Virginia Opera, Cincinnati Opera (Rigoletto) and Opera Southwest. On the concert stage, he is a regular guest of the Cincinnati May Festival, where he has performed works by Orff, Stravinsky, Janáček, Mahler, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Rossini and Singleton, and Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses in Cincinnati and in New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Recent notable engagements include the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, The Philadelphia Orchestra for a new work by Hannibal Lokumbe and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, the Madison Symphony for Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, Florida Orchestra for Missa Solemnis, the Colorado and São Paolo (Brazil) symphony orchestras for performances of Too Hot to Handel, Greensboro Symphony and Richmond Symphony in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and the title role in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg for the Enescu Festival in Romania.

A gifted recitalist, Dixon earned rave reviews for his Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert broadcast, and he has performed a duet concert “Following in the Footsteps” at Hampton University with soprano Alfreda Burke, with whom he has also appeared in recitals for the Umbria Music Festival in Italy and across the U.S.

Recordings include (Sony/BMG) PBS Great Performances: Cook, Dixon & Young Volume One released in (2005), Follow That Star Christmas CD (2003), Liam Lawton’s Sacred Land (2006), Rodrick Dixon Live in Concert (2008) and a Christmas album with the Cincinnati Pops. tenorroddixon.com