These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut of Terrence Chin-Loy.

Appearances by American tenor Terrence Chin-Loy in the 2022/23 season include Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan as well as at Arizona Opera, Don José in Bizet’s Carmen with MasterVoices at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Old Head 2 and Charlie in the world premiere of Will Liverman’s The Factotum with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Acis in Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Eugene Opera.

Chin-Loy opened the 2021/22 season with his solo debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. He returned to Arizona Opera for his second and final season as a Marion Roose Pullin Resident Artist and joined the American Symphony Orchestra and Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall, where they performed and recorded Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm.

A graduate of Indiana University, Chin-Loy received a Performer Diploma. He also holds a degree from Mannes College, where he performed the roles of Laurie in Mark Adamo’s Little Women and Bill in the New York premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Flight with Mannes Opera, and received the Michael Sisca Opera Award, the school’s top prize for an opera singer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music from Yale University, where he was also a frequent performer with the Yale Baroque Opera Project. He was a 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions National Semifinalist.