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Michael Hix,
Baritone

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baritone

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.

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For a complete list of repertoire performed click here.

Photo credit Kathy Myrick - San Juan Symphony

Upcoming Performances

Beth Ratay Composer Workshop​

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

Market Music

Rameau's Thetis and selections by Purcell and Biber

Bass Soloist

Santa Fe, NM

July 18, 2026

Borderland Arts Foundation

excerpts from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro 

Figaro

Las Cruces, NM

August 22, 2026

New Mexico Philharmonic

Handel's Messiah

Bass Soloist

First Presbyterian Church

Albuquerque, NM

December 11-12, 2026

Inland Master Chorale

Mendelssohn's Elijah

Elijah

Redlands, CA

March 14, 2027

J.S Bach's St. Matthew Passion

Bass Aria Soloist

March 21, 2027

Brevard Symphony Orchestra

Orff's Carmina Burana

Baritone Soloist

April 17, 2027

New Mexico Philharmonic

J.S. Bach's Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht/Coffee Cantata BWV 211

Schlendrian

May 22, 2027

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