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Andrew Haji

Tenor Andrew Haji is one of the most sought-after voices on concert and operatic stages across North America and Europe. Haji’s season 2024/25 includes debuts with the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Kansas City Symphony, and NDR Radiophilharmonie. As well, he makes returns to the Houston Symphony Orchestra, to Carnegie Hall with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and to Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society. On the opera stage, he debuts the titular role of Mozart’s "La clemenza di Tito" for Pacific Opera Victoria. He continues to frequently collaborate with conductors of note including Manfred Honeck, Bernard Labadie, Jonathan Cohen, Andrew Manze, Rafael Payare, and Alexander Shelley.

During the 2023/24 season, he appeared with the Seattle Symphony and Grand Philharmonic Choir (Bach’s "Johannes Passion"), Victoria Symphony (Handel’s "Messiah"), Calgary Symphony (Bruckner’s Te Deum), Carnegie Hall (Bach’s "Weihnachtsoratorium"), Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (Verdi’s Missa da Requiem) and at the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9), where he last appeared as Don Ottavio in Mozart’s "Don Giovanni".

In 2022/23 he made international debuts with the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan in his signature role of Nemorino in "L’elisir d’amore", and the Edinburgh Festival for Handel’s "Saul". He appeared as Macduff in "Macbeth" for Calgary Opera, as well as Alfredo in "La traviata" with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony, and as Rodolfo in "La bohème" for Montreal’s Orchestre Philharmonique et Chœur des Mélomanes. Other notable appearances include Les Violons du Roy (Bach Cantatas), Chorus Niagara (Beethoven’s Missa solemnis), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Haydn’s "Creation"), the Victoria Symphony (Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9), "La bohème" with Edmonton Opera, "La traviata" with Calgary Opera, and Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Elora Festival.  

Andrew Haji starred in various digital and streaming productions through the 2020/21 season, including Against the Grain Theatre’s acclaimed video of Holst’s "Sāvitri", Mozart’s Requiem for the Canadian Opera Company and as Rinuccio in the company’s streamed production of Puccini’s "Gianni Schicchi", returning to the stage for Opéra de Québec’s "Il barbiere de Siviglia", reprising the role of Count Almaviva. 

With a broad-based repertoire, he has been heard as Pollione in Bellini’s "Norma", as Cassio in "Otello" for the Canadian Opera Company, Alfred in "Die Fledermaus" and in Rossini’s Stabat Mater.  A native-born Ontarian, he has received awards from the Marilyn Horne Song Competition, the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble, and was the winner of the Grand Prix at the 50th International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and the Montreal International Music Competition’s Oratorio Prize.