Kyle Sanchez Tingzon, countertenor
Filipino countertenor Kyle Sanchez Tingzon is a newcomer to the Bay Area music scene. Recent performances include a role debut of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (as Ottone), scenes from Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (as Baba the Turk), Handel’s Xerxes (as Arsamenes), and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (as Orfeo) at San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2020-2021. This year, he will make his debut as the title role in G. F. Händel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto with the SFCM Baroque Ensemble.
Kyle won First Prize at the 8th Handel Aria Competition held in Madison, Wisconsin in 2021. The year before, he won third prize at the Rochester International Vocal Competition in New York, organized by the Rochester Oratorio Society.
Kyle’s past performances in the Philippines include J. Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis (2019), G. F. Händel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus (2017). He has also performed A. Vivaldi’s Gloria in D at the Svenska Kyrkans Gosskörsförening, a festival of male choirs in Rättvik, Sweden (2019). He was a street singer and featured soloist in a performance of L. Bernstein’s Mass at the Esplanade in Singapore (2018). Kyle was also featured as a soloist at the annual International Bamboo Organ Festival in Las Piñas City, Philippines, a festival dedicated to the performance of early music
Kyle is currently pursuing his postgraduate studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying under César Ulloa. In 2021, he graduated with a Master of Music degree in Voice, with a Historical Performance emphasis, from the same institution. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Management, minor in Economics, from Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines (2015). He also studied voice privately under Christopher Arceo.