Thomas Bocchi is a versatile performing artist, equally versed in opera, concert/oratorio, musical theatre, and art song. Upcoming engagements include the soloist in Amuse Bouche with Art Song Colorado, and a full season with Colorado Bach Ensemble.
Oratorio engagements include Mozart’s C Minor Mass, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, and Faure’s Requiem. He performs regularly with Colorado Bach Ensemble as soloist/chorus member (B Minor Mass, St Matthew Passion, Handel’s Messiah, numerous cantatas) and was a finalist in their Young Artist Competition.
Opera credits include the lead role of John Gay in Gene Scheer’s new opera Polly Peachum with CUNOW, Miles (Proving Up), Joe (Robert Paterson’s Companion), Lesbus (Agrippina), the Witch (Hänsel & Gretel), Basilio/Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Suitor/ Chorus (Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life!). He has premiered multiple operas by composer Ben Morris (The Fall of Man, Perspective) as well as song cycles. Additional past roles include Marius (Les Misérables), The Scarecrow (Wizard of Oz), Aldolpho (The Drowsy Chaperone), and Ewart Dunlop (The Music Man).
He specializes in the song repertoire, particularly the works of Schubert, Schumann, and Britten, and commonly features underrepresented composers such as Violet Archer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Robert Owens, and Muriel Herbert.
Thomas holds a B.A. in Vocal Performance (Whitworth University), a master’s degree in Vocal Performance & Pedagogy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is currently pursuing a D.M.A, studying under the tutelage of Matthew Chellis and Nicholas Perna, and serves as a graduate teaching assistant and accompanist. He is also an aspiring composer, whose works are performed often on the recitals of his colleagues.
