Martin Pazdioch

Martin Pazdioch, a native of Des Plaines, IL, has had a variety of experience in opera, concert, recital and musical theater. As a matter of fact, his very first professional musical “gig” was as the rehearsal accompanist for a community theater production of Fiddler on the Roof when he was just 15 years old. He’s been hooked ever since. Martin recently returned to the musical theater stage portraying Monty Woolley in a production of Red, Hot and Cole!

Martin can be heard as a guest artist on a new CD of organ music and sacred songs with Mary Gifford entitled, The Lyon Roars, and on the London-DECCA recording of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Sir Georg Solti. He has understudied the role of Florestan in Beethoven’s Fidelio for the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Summer Music Festival. He sang performances of Schönberg’s Moses und Aron and the Brahms Requiem with the CSO in Berlin. Martin has been a professional member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus for 14 years, appearing regularly on the stage of Orchestra Hall and on 5 Grammy® Award-winning recordings. During the summer months Martin can be heard singing al fresco with the Grant Park Symphony Chorus.

As a soloist Martin recently appeared in recital at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in a concert of sacred music by British composers. Every summer he can be heard in recital at the national headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America in Wheaton. He participated in the world premiere of Amy Kaplan’s cantata, Rituals and Revelations, with the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble of the University of Chicago, with the Harper Festival Orchestra singing the tenor solos in Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2, Lobesgesang, and in the title role of Carissimi’s Jepthe for Guild Musick. Other solo performances have included Bach’s Cantata 140, Kaspar in Menotti’s Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, with the Halevi Choral Society in a program of sacred Jewish music, and he even sang next to David Byrne of The Talking Heads in performances of his cantata, The Forest. Martin is currently the tenor soloist for Saint John Brebeuf Catholic Church in Niles and a member of the professional chancel choir for Church of the Ascension in Chicago.

Martin greatly enjoys teaching private voice at Highland Park and Oak Park & River Forest High Schools, in addition to a growing studio of adult voice students, and is most proud of their accomplishments. Current and former students can be heard singing at their local churches and synagogues, in undergraduate music programs at universities throughout the United States, as local music scholarship winners, in a capella groups, as solo recording artists (pop/alternative rock), at theaters throughout the Chicago area, on Broadway and in the national touring companies of Broadway shows.