Travis Benoit

Travis Benoit, tenor, from Worcester, Massachusetts received his Master of Music Degree from The Manhattan School of Music in the spring of 2020. Previous credits include The Tenor Solos with CONCORA in Handel’s Messiah, Joseph Haydn’s The Creation (Uriel)with The Providence Singers, The Passion According to Saint Luke (The Evangelist) Composer William David Cooper’s New Work, The Pirates of Penzance (Frederic), with The Valley light Opera Company, La Traviata (Gastone), with The Manhattan School of Music’s Opera Repertoire Ensemble, I due timidi (Dottore Sinisgalli), In the 2018 Manhattan School of Music main stage production, and Die Zauberflöte (Tamino), with The Nahant Music Festival as a vocal apprentice. Scene work includes Così fan tutte (Ferrando), La Rondine (Prunier), and L’elesir d’amore (Nemorino). In September of 2021 he performed a recital featuring Gerald Finzi’s “A Young Man’s Exhortation” with Mark Mummert at The Hanover Theater’s Brick Box Theater in Downtown Worcester. Travis was selected to sing in The Thomas Hampson Masterclass hosted by MSM in 2019. In 2017 Travis won the Worcester Schubertiade Vocal competition with the first-place college vocal division prize. Travis is his alma mater’s Concerto competition winner, which gave him a 15-minute performance with the Gordon College Symphony Orchestra in which he performed a program of Mozart Concert Arias. Travis’s current ensembles include EnsembleNYC, CONCORA, The Providence Singers, The Worcester Chorus, Vox Futura, and Magnificat Sacred Music Institute’s Cor Unum Singers.

Fun Fact

Travis is also the Choir Director at Worcester Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts and works as adjunct vocal faculty with The Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. While in his undergrad he frequented the baseball field as the starting catcher for his collegiate baseball team and received an all-conference award. He speaks conversational Italian and loves to dabble with jazz and pop music