A native of Connecticut and a magna cum laude graduate of the Hartt College of Music, baritone Thom King has an impressive and varied list of roles to his credit in opera, light opera, music theater and oratorio. Having started out in bass-baritone roles, Mr. King has been singing wide range of baritone roles with many other companies and orchestras throughout the country. Aside from the standard repertory, in which he has sung some 35 roles, he has appeared in a number of contemporary operas by Ching, Bernstein, Weill, Pliska and Wargo. More recently he had great success with his interpretation of Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King with the Camerata de Bellas Artes in Mexico, Handel's Messiah with the Bridgeport Symphony, Handel's Samson with the Baltimore Choral Artists, in Orff's Carmina Burana with the Greater Lansing Symphony and he was featured in a concert with the Memphis Opera celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. He also appeared in Charles Davidson's oratorio Souls on Fire in Detroit with Leonard Nimoy as Narrator and sang the title role of Jephtha with the Handel Choir of Baltimore.
His most recent performances include Olin Blitch in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah with Eugene Opera, Amonasro in Aïda with Mississippi Opera, Germont in La Traviata with Annapolis Opera and he will perform the role of Crespel in Les Contes d'Hoffmann with the Baltimore Opera this season.
Mr. King is showcased in a CD entitled "Thom King sings Michael Issacson", featuring contemporary Jewish liturgical music.
He resides in Baltimore with his wife Shazy and three lovely daughters — Tzippy, Sarah and Gittel.
