Spencer Kryzanowski

Spencer Kryzanowski is a Dora Award-winning conductor, music director, vocal coach, and répétiteur based in Newmarket, Ontario. Working across opera, musical theatre, and arts education, he is a faculty vocal coach and répétiteur with the University of Toronto Opera Department, resident music director of Good Mess Opera Theatre, and host and music director of Toronto’s Opera Pub with Against the Grain Theatre. He also serves on the faculty of the Banff Centre’s summer opera program.

This winter, Spencer makes his Canadian Opera Company debut as assistant conductor for Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. His recent credits include The Silver Cypress (Beth Morrison Projects/Banff Centre), Canuck Cantatas, La rondine, Die Walküre, Bluebeard’s Castle, Die Fledermaus, Il tabarro, and Cendrillon. His contemporary opera work includes RUR: A Torrent of Light and the world premiere of Parélios (Opera5). Spencer is also regularly invited to bring opera and arts education programming to rural and underserved communities throughout the Yukon Territory