Cameron Shahbazi

The 2024-25 season marks numerous exciting projects for Cameron Shahbazi. The countertenor makes his much-anticipated house debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona as Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare directed by Calixto Bieto. With the Vancouver Opera, he makes his house and role debut as The Refugee in Jonathan Dove’s Flight. Building on the great success of George Benjamin’s new opera Picture a day like this, Shahbazi thrice presents the acclaimed interpretation: at the Opéra Comique in Paris, Opéra national du Rhin, and at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg. Together with pianist Sophia Muñoz, Shahbazi brings Warsaw Sessions to the Nowa Miodowa in Warsaw and Les Lundis Musicaux in Paris’ Athénée Théâtre.

Shahbazi has received distinguished international honours such as the prestigious Opus Klassik Award (2023) for “Innovative Concert of the Year”, Sylva Gelber Award (2021), the Walter Prsytawski Prize (2021) and the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Award (2019). He was a finalist at the 2019 Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, was awarded the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Prize at the 2018 International Belvedere Competition, Second Prize at Innsbruck’s Cesti Competition in 2018, and top prizes at the 2017 Opéra Avignon Jeunes Espoirs Competition.

Shahbazi was born in Hamilton, Canada. He is an alumnus of both the University of Toronto and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and is a grateful recipient of grants from the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation and the Staetshuys Fonds.

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