Presented By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD)
UMS Messiah Soloist Master Class with Miles Mykkanen, tenor
The Department of Voice & Opera, in conjunction with the University Musical Society, is pleased to present four separate Master Classes, Friday, December 5, 2025, 10:30am-12:20pm at the Earl V. Moore Building.
Each class will be led by a soloist from this year’s UMS presentation of Handel’s Messiah, each working with four of our SMTD voice students. The master clinicians are Sherezade Panthaki, soprano; Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, counter-tenor; Miles Mykkanen, tenor; and Enrico Lagasca, bass-baritone.
All classes are open to the public to come and observe. Class locations are as follows:
Sherezade Panthaki, soprano - McIntosh Theatre
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, counter-tenor - Watkins Lecture Hall
Miles Mykkanen, tenor - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
Enrico Lagasca, bass-baritone - Kevreson Rehearsal Hall
GUEST ARTIST BIO
The career of exuberant young Finnish-American tenor MILES MYKKANEN was launched with a national win of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2019. He has since impressed with a series of important debuts on the world’s major stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Canadian Opera Company, and Royal Opera House Covent Garden, where The i declared his performance “the most beautiful singing of the evening” and Opera Magazine dubbed it “so striking and brilliant” that “he managed toturn the Steersman into a principal character.”
In a pivotal 25/26 season, Mykkanen stars as Sam Clay in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night gala and house premiere run, conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Mykkanen returns to the house after this season as The Groom in the first Met production of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence. Elsewhere, he makes two dual house and role debuts: as Leukippos in Strauss rarity Daphne at Seattle Opera, and as Tamino in Barrie Kosky’s silent film-inspired production of The Magic Flute at LA Opera. He also brings his flexible tenor to Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with Cleveland Orchestra, led by Franz Welser-Möst, and to Handel’s Messiah with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, conducted by Dame Jane Glover, and the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor. He marks his first appearance at the Maastricht Festival in the Netherlands as soloist in a unique Carmina Burana featuring acclaimed piano duo Lucas and Arthur Jussen, among other appearances still to be announced.
Each class will be led by a soloist from this year’s UMS presentation of Handel’s Messiah, each working with four of our SMTD voice students. The master clinicians are Sherezade Panthaki, soprano; Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, counter-tenor; Miles Mykkanen, tenor; and Enrico Lagasca, bass-baritone.
All classes are open to the public to come and observe. Class locations are as follows:
Sherezade Panthaki, soprano - McIntosh Theatre
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, counter-tenor - Watkins Lecture Hall
Miles Mykkanen, tenor - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
Enrico Lagasca, bass-baritone - Kevreson Rehearsal Hall
GUEST ARTIST BIO
The career of exuberant young Finnish-American tenor MILES MYKKANEN was launched with a national win of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2019. He has since impressed with a series of important debuts on the world’s major stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Canadian Opera Company, and Royal Opera House Covent Garden, where The i declared his performance “the most beautiful singing of the evening” and Opera Magazine dubbed it “so striking and brilliant” that “he managed toturn the Steersman into a principal character.”
In a pivotal 25/26 season, Mykkanen stars as Sam Clay in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night gala and house premiere run, conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Mykkanen returns to the house after this season as The Groom in the first Met production of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence. Elsewhere, he makes two dual house and role debuts: as Leukippos in Strauss rarity Daphne at Seattle Opera, and as Tamino in Barrie Kosky’s silent film-inspired production of The Magic Flute at LA Opera. He also brings his flexible tenor to Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with Cleveland Orchestra, led by Franz Welser-Möst, and to Handel’s Messiah with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, conducted by Dame Jane Glover, and the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor. He marks his first appearance at the Maastricht Festival in the Netherlands as soloist in a unique Carmina Burana featuring acclaimed piano duo Lucas and Arthur Jussen, among other appearances still to be announced.
Cost
- Free - no tickets required
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