Bass-baritone Daniel Lichti, Associate Professor, Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University since 1998, continues to appear internationally with major symphonic, choral and concert organizations. A featured guest at prominent American Bach Festivals (this season he will perform Bach Passions with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Richard Eaton Singers in Edmonton, and at home with the Grand Philharmonic Choir), he is also a member of the distinguished group of Canadian musicians known as Piano Plus.

His Lieder recordings have garnered wide critical acclaim, and the response to Schubert’s Winterreise with Leslie De’Ath on Analekta has been enthusiastic. A new release of Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, also with Analekta, in which he partners with mezzo soprano, Catherine Robbin and pianist, Leslie De’Ath is eagerly anticipated.

RECENT REVIEWS:

The Journal of Singing

Schubert—Winterreise, Daniel Lichti, bass baritone;  Leslie De’Ath, fortepiano.
(Analekta AN 2 9921;  62:48)  

Superb recordings of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise abound.  It is as though the very greatness of these texts and the music crafted for them has inspired generations of singers to their artistic pinnacle.  These are songs that compel the singer to the most profound and personal kind of expressivity, even as they confront the singer with one vocal and musical challenge after another.  Beyond the specific life of each song is the overarching journey through the entire cycle and the tricky task of conveying the moods of hurt, anger, bitterness, despair, and resignation in colors and shades detailed enough to produce more than a faceless, lifeless shroud of gray.  > Read More