Canadian tenor Kevin D. Skelton has performed on five continents with a wide array of musical ensembles.  With a voice and musical sensitivity particularly suited to early music, Kevin specialises in seventeenth-century music, haute-contre repertoire, and the Bach Evangelist roles.  Kevin works regularly with some of the world’s finest early music ensembles including the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Collegium Vocale Gent, L’Arpeggiata, and the Toronto Consort having performed in such renowned venues as the Concertgebouw and Carnegie Hall, and the early music festivals in Boston, Bruges, and Utrecht.       

Concert appearances in 2010-2011 included the inaugural Bachfestival Dordrecht, solo recitals with recorder player Alison Melville in Canada, Bach’s Matthäus-Passion and Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers with the Bachkoor Brabant, and several performances throughout Europe with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Jos van Veldhoven) and Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe).

Recent opera appearances include a staged production of Frank Martin’s Le vin herbé with the Onafhankelijk Toneel, and the New York Times praised Kevin for performing the role of Clearte with ‘regal bearing’ in his 2011 début at the Boston Early Music Festival in their monumental production of Agostino Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe.

Performances this year include performances in the Utrecht Early Music Festival with Concerto Palatino (Bruce Dickey) and L'Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar), a Rosenmüller programme with the Toronto Consort (David Fallis), Bach’s B-minor Mass with the Bachkoor Brabant in addition to several projects with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging in Japan and the Netherlands.  This year will also include several projects of contemporary music with Bl!ndman and VocaalLAB, and the premiere of the solo productions ‘Tintern Abbey’ and ‘Divine Rapture’ combining singing and contemporary dance.