Performance Year: 2021, 2026
Christopher Cano is a recitalist, orchestral soloist, and collaborative pianist who has performed throughout the United States, Mexico, Israel, Europe, and Asia. Cano is a sought-after coach for leading singers, having prepared vocalists for performances at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, and for appearances with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and Berlin Philharmonic among others. As a recitalist and soloist, Cano has performed with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Tucson Civic Orchestra, the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, the Catalina Chamber Orchestra, and the University of Arizona Symphony Orchestra. As a collaborative artist, he has played in the master classes of Marilyn Horne, Licia Albanese, Fedora Barbieri, Anna Moffo, Lauren Flannigan, Martin Katz, Craig Rutenberg, and Susanne Mentzer and has worked as a studio pianist with some of the great artists and teachers of singing including Marilyn Horne, Sherrill Milnes, Luciano Pavarotti, Marni Nixon, Patricia McCaffrey, Joan Patenaude-Yarnell, Rita Shane, and Diana Soviero.
A native of Southern Arizona, Mr. Cano holds a Bachelor and Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of Arizona and was a full-scholarship student in the Professional Studies Program of Vocal Accompanying at the Manhattan School of Music where he later joined the faculty. Cano is currently the Director of the Cafritz Young Artist Program and the American Opera Initiative
