These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut of Eric Ferring.

Tenor Eric Ferring, a native of Dubuque, Iowa, graduated from Drake University and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. He is also a graduate of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center and the Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist Program, a 2022 George London Foundation Award winner, and the Top Prize Winner of the 2022 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition.

Ferring’s 2024/25 season has included his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut in The Handel Project with conductor Emmanuelle Haïm, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, and Handel’s Messiah with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. Previous notable engagements include the Insula Orchestra in Paris for Mozart’s Requiem. He has appeared with The Metropolitan Opera in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and Puccini’s Turandot.

In 2022, Ferring released his solo debut album No Choice but Love. This was followed by 2023’s We Have Tomorrow, featuring pianist Madeline Slettedahl and French string quartet Quatuor Agate. He was awarded the 2017 Richard Tucker Memorial Scholarship as an Apprentice Singer at Santa Fe Opera, participated in the Académie de festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and was a Studio Artist at Wolf Trap Opera.