Brian Ember, baritone, is a composer and singer from New Haven, Connecticut. He debuted on the opera stage in January of 2020 as Bartolo in the Panopera production of “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” and was cast as die Sprecker in the Windham Philharmonic production of “Die Zauberflöte” in March 2020.  He has enjoyed thirteen  years as baritone section leader at both Church of the Redeemer and most recently United Church on the Green in New Haven.

 Brian graduated with a degree in Composition from the Mannes College of Music in New York. As a classically-trained singer with strong roots in popular music, Brian’s genre-fluidity has led him to many unorthodox corners of the musical world. As a composer, Brian has written for full orchestras as well as chamber groups. His most recent composition, “Heaven or California,” is a string quartet score for a circus show about the tragic Donner Party expedition.

He is the songwriter and lead singer for a wind quintet that sings children’s music about dinosaurs called the Cretaceous Quintet, a string quartet rock band called The Tet Offensive, and in 2019,  released his first solo rock album: Brian Ember “The New Chastity.” Brian is currently in production of two Brian Ember releases, and just finished recording a Tet Offensive album which will be released in the fall. www.brianember.com

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“His was an energetically deranged performance – and I mean that as a very warm compliment. He was almost certainly the tallest Nibelung I’ve ever seen, (over six feet, I believe) and so was continually hunched in a variety of striking poses. But of course, Alberich is more emotionally than physically stunted. In Mr Ember’s playing he was the weird incel kid in high school who couldn’t get a date to the prom and now, thirty years later, having made some money, he’s forcing everyone in the world to pay for it.” -C. Tennyson Crowe on Siegfried, Wagner in Vermont 2023