Brian Giebler

Praised for his “lovely tone and deep expressivity” by The New York Times, GRAMMY® nominated tenor Brian Giebler radiates “shine and clarity” (Opera News) in every phrase using “his high-placed tenor with great skill” (Opera Magazine). His debut solo album a lad's love garnered high praise from such publications as Gramophone, Opera News (Critics Choice), and San Francisco Classical Voice, and earned him his first GRAMMY® Award nomination for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. His second album with pianist Steven McGhee entitled a dad’s love will be commercially available in 2026. 

 Quickly establishing himself as one of the most sought-after interpreters of the Roasted Swan in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Giebler has recently performed the work to great acclaim with the Austin, Boise, Colorado, Knoxville, Milwaukee (cond. Ken-David Masur) Vermont, and Virginia Symphony Orchestras (cond. Eric Jacobsen). Equally engaged for Handel’s Messiah, he has performed the work with Music of the Baroque (cond. Nicholas Kraemer–live recording available), American Bach Soloists, internationally in South Korea with the Seoul Metropolitan Chorus, Trinity Wall Street (cond. Dame Jane Glover), and with the Asheville, Charleston, Charlotte, Memphis (cond. Robert Moody), Naples, National Philharmonic, Rhode Island, and Virginia Symphony Orchestras. He has sung Mozart’s Requiem with the Austin Symphony, Carmel Bach Festival, Savannah Philharmonic, and at Carnegie Hall. 

 Acknowledged as a specialist in the music of the Baroque and Classical periods, Giebler has been heard as Apollo in Handel’s Semele with The English Concert in an international tour under Harry Bicket; Septimius in Handel’s Theodora with Ars Lyrica Houston; Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Atlanta Baroque Orchestra; in Desmerest’s Circé and Caccini’s Alcina with Boston Early Music Festival; and as Arnalta in Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea with Boston Baroque. Highlights of early music in recent seasons include: Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions (Voices of Ascension; Trinity Wall Street); Bach’s B Minor Mass at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York, the Carmel Bach Festival (cond. Grete Pedersen), the Sebastians, and Clarion Music Society (cond. Steven Fox); Bach Cantatas with the Grand Rapids Symphony, and Handel & Haydn Society under Harry Christophers; a tour of the Ravinia and Caramoor Festivals singing Monteverdi with Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell; and his France debut with Ensemble Correspondances under Sébastien Daucé and Germany debut with BEMF singing Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs.

 Championing new works, Giebler has been seen in diverse roles such as Matthew in Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard with Conspirare, Trinity Wall Street, and the Oregon Bach Festival; Adam in Wachner’s REV 23 at the Prototype Festival (cond. Daniela Candillari); and Iff the Water Genie in Wuorinen’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories with Boston Modern Orchestra Project (available on recording). 

“The sweetness of Giebler's impressive high tenor” and his "expressive and elegant phrasing" (Cleveland Classical) has been heard singing Stravinsky with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst; Haydn’s Creation with the Santa Fe and Princeton Pro Musicas; Haydn’s Paukenmesse with the Colorado Symphony; Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Baltimore Choral Arts; Mozart’s C Minor Mass at Lincoln Center with American Classical Orchestra; and as a frequent collaborator with Mark Morris Dance Group, singing the choreographer’s iconic version of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a solo performance of Erik Satie’s Socrate at Cal Performances.