Baritone Steven Bélanger is a graduate of Queen’s University and McGill University and has performed with ensembles of all sizes and genres across Canada. He has appeared at music festivals all around North America and has recorded music for film, television, radio and Cirque du Soleil.
Recent solo engagements include Bach’s Easter and Ascension Oratorios with Ensemble Caprice and Carmina Burana with the West Coast Symphony. He can also be heard as one of the soloists on the recording of Christopher Tyler Nickel’s seven-hour oratorio The Gospel According to Mark, recently released on Avie Records.
As a recitalist, Steven has collaborated with pianists Stephen Smith, Corey Hamm, Terence Dawson, Kinza Tyrrell and Jane Coop in programs of English songs, French mélodies and German Lieder. He also frequently works with composer Lloyd Burritt for whom he premiered lead roles in the chamber operas Miracle Flight 571 (based on the Andes flight disaster) and Camouflage Complex: The Art of Deception (based on the life of feminist literary icon Betsy Warland).
Steven currently lives in Vancouver where he holds the title of Executive Director of the Vancouver Chamber Choir. In addition to performing both as soloist and ensemble singer with the choir he has appeared with Early Music Vancouver, musica intima, the Erato Ensemble, the Vancouver Cantata Singers, Stellaria, Laudate Singers, ArtSongLab, the Blueridge Chamber Music Festival and Little Chamber Music.