Canadian tenor Colin Ainsworth has built a career defined by versatility and dramatic presence, captivating audiences with repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the present day. His performances have taken him to the stages of the Royal Opera House, Canadian Opera Company, Glimmerglass Opera, the Greek National Opera, Teatro Nacional São Carlos, and Seattle Opera, as well as Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), and Carnegie Hall. 

As a prolific concert singer, Mr. Ainsworth has appeared with the Cincinnati Symphony, the New Zealand String Quartet, Ensemble Pygmalion, Vancouver Symphony, Calgary Symphony, Music of the Baroque (Chicago), Les Violons du Roy, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain, the Grand Philharmonic Choir, the Elmer Iseler Singers, Guelph Chamber Choir, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. His vast concert and recital repertoire includes Bach’s Mass in B Minor, St. Matthew Passion, St. John’s Passion, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin and Janácek’s Diary of One Who Vanished. He has had the pleasure of singing under the batons of Dame Jane Glover, Bernard Labadie, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Leon Botstein, Jeffrey Kahane, John Nelson, Nicholas McGegan, and Leonard Slatkin.