Gregory Zavracky is enjoying an active performance schedule as a promising young tenor.  Recent engagements include apprenticeships with Lake George Opera, where he appeared as Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi and Buoso’s Ghost, and Chautauqua Opera, where he sang Prince Dauntless in Once Upon a Mattress and Schmidt in Werther, while covering Nemorino in the Elixir of Love and Remendado in Carmen.  Recently, he performed Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola with Marsh Chapel Collegium Vocale, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas and Don Basilio/Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro with Connecticut Lyric Opera, and Strephon in Happy Arcadia and Box in Cox & Box with New England Light Opera.  On the concert stage, Gregory was the tenor soloist in the Bach B Minor Mass with the Connecticut Virtuosi, the Mozart Mass in C minor with Harvard University Choir, the Bach Magnificat with Harvard Pro Musica, the Messiah with Wallingford Chorus and Chamber Orchestra, and opera and pops concerts with the Chautauqua Symphony. Other recent performances include 2nd Priest and 1st Augur in John Eccles’ Semele with Martin Pearlman, the title role in L’Egisto, and tenor solos in the Mozart Vespers, Coronation Mass and Requiem.  Upcoming roles for Gregory are Ernesto in Don Pasquale with Opera in the Heights (Houston) and Ferrando in Così Fan Tutte with Cape Cod Opera.

In previous seasons, Gregory was the tenor soloist in the Messiah with the Fine Arts Chorale in Boston, performed the role of Miguel in Illusions in the Utah Opera Apprentice Artists Program, and was heard twice in concert with the Utah Symphony.  He has sung Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera North and Yussel in Fiddler on the Roof with Chautauqua Opera, where he also covered Little Bat and Elder Gleaton in Susannah and Motel in Fiddler. Other concert experience includes the Saint Saens’ Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Chandos Anthem Number 8, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and the Beethoven Mass in C.

Gregory received his Bachelor of Arts in music from Emory University, and two Master of Music degrees from New England Conservatory in voice performance and opera studies as a student of Edward Zambara.  At NEC, he performed the roles of Tamino in the Magic Flute, the title role in Candide, Martin in the Tender Land, Larry/Matt in Face on the Barroom Floor, Mayor Upfold in Albert Herring, and Franco Laspiga in the premiere of Dan Shore’s Works of Mercy.  While at NEC, he performed Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings and Stravinsky’s In Memoriam: Dylan Thomas under the baton of John Heiss.  Also with the Contemporary Ensemble, he sang the role of Jay Gatsby in the Boston premiere of selected arias from Harbison’s Great Gatsby.