Michael Hix,
Baritone
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Bio
Baritone Michael Hix has been praised by critics for his "expressive voice" and "commanding stage presence." His career highlights include performances at Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and Vienna’s Musikverein.
Hix is a sought-after performer of concert and orchestral works with over 75 oratorio, cantata, and concert roles in his repertoire. He won 3rd Place in the American Prize in Art Song and Oratorio Performance in 2019. Hix has been featured as a soloist in concerts with the Oregon Bach Festival, Arizona Bach Festival, Boston Pops, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Georgia Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Idaho Falls Symphony, San Juan Symphony, True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony, New York City’s Trinity Lutheran Bach Vespers Series and the Tallahassee Bach Parley among others.
Included among his over 20 stage roles are Falke in Die Fledermaus, King George in 8 Songs for a Mad King, Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Noye in Noye's Fludde, the Drunken Poet in The Fairy Queen, Don Alfonso in Cosí fan tutte, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, and Bertouf in the world premiere of A Friend of Napoleon by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Robert Ward.
Hix recently completed a recording of solo bass cantatas by baroque composer Christoph Graupner. To order this recording please click here.

Photo credit Kathy Myrick - San Juan Symphony
The Morpheus Quartet - An Opera
Keller Hall, UNM
Albuquerque, NM
June 14, 2026
National Association of Teachers of Singing - National Convention
Bernstein's Songfest
Bass Soloist
San Antonio, TX
July 6, 2026
Rameau's Thetis and selections by Purcell and Biber
Bass Soloist
Santa Fe, NM
July 18, 2026
excerpts from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
Figaro
Las Cruces, NM
August 22, 2026
Handel's Messiah
Bass Soloist
First Presbyterian Church
Albuquerque, NM
December 11-12, 2026
Mendelssohn's Elijah
Elijah
Redlands, CA
March 14, 2027
J.S Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Bass Aria Soloist
March 21, 2027
Orff's Carmina Burana
Baritone Soloist
April 17, 2027
J.S. Bach's Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht/Coffee Cantata BWV 211
Schlendrian
May 22, 2027