Wagner Pastor

Biography

Tenor Wagner Mauricio Pástor was born in Quito, Ecuador. He has participated in professional engagements including performances with The American Spiritual Ensemble, Kentucky Opera/Santa Fe Opera, North Carolina Summer Opera, South Bend Lyric Opera, the Bay View Music Association, the A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute, Piedmont Opera, the Ecuador National Symphony Orchestra, the Sucre National Theater, Fort Wayne Phylarmonic Players and Cincinnati Opera.

In 2020 Wagner received the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions encouragement award, Lexington, KY and placed as semifinalist in the Saengerbund Awards, Huston, TX as well as in the Opera Premier Foundation vocal competition, NYC. In 2022 obtained the second place in the professional voice category at the London International Music Competition. In 2023 Wagner was finalist in both the Classical Singer Magazine Competition in San Francisco, CA and in the Music International Grand Prix in New York City. Mr. Pástor has performed leading romantic tenor roles such as Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata, Werther by Massenet, Don José in Bizet's Carmen, Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amor, Rodolfo in Puccini's La Bohème, and others. Last summer Wagner performed with Cincinnati Opera in Aida, La Bohème, and The Pirates of Penzance.

Wagner has received a diploma in arts from the Conservatorio Superior Nacional de Música del Ecuador and an engineering degree in geography-regional planning from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Additionally, a Master's of music from the University of Idaho. Wagner obtained a professional artist certificate from the University of North Carolina-School of the Arts. Currently, Wagner holds a Doctoral degree in musical arts - voice performance under the mentorship of Dr. Everett McCorvey and vocal coach Professor Cliff Jackson. Dr. Pástor joined Heartland Sings in the Winter of 2022 as a Principal Vocal Artist and last summer a became an adjunct voice faculty at Purdue Universiy, Fort Wayne - Indiana.

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