Acclaimed as one of Canada's finest concert and oratorio singers, Daniel Lichti continues to build on his successes with major North American symphonic, choral and concert organizations, his activity extending to the concert halls of Europe, Japan, South America, and Israel. He has bowed at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, L'Opéra de Montréal, Opéra de Québec, Opera Atelier, and Opera Ontario after beginning his career with the Stratford Festival and the Canadian Opera Company. He has been heard frequently with Toronto's Opera in Concert, at many North American Festivals, and many of his concerts have been broadcast on the CBC, BBC, and NPR networks. Since 1998 Mr. Lichti has been Associate Professor and Coordinator of Voice for the Faculty of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.

Combined with performances, Mr.Lichti has responded to invitations to conduct masterclasses in Malta, at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman in Argentina, York University, Toronto, Princeton University in New Jersey, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Depauw University, Greenboro, Indiana, and for the Ontario Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, among others. Most recently he was a guest teacher at Rollins College, in Winterpark, Florida and at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. He was featured as one of a panel of four judges and coaches for the second season of the highly successful Bathroom Divas television show that aired on BRAVO and won a Gemini Award for Best Human Interest Series. He has been on the Faculty of the Schlern International Music Festival in Italy and returned to the Elora Festival Academy of Music in 2010.

Highlights of past seasons include a Proms Concert at Royal Albert Hall in a premiere performance of Libby Larsen's I It Am (a co-commission by the Bach Choir of Bethlehem and the BBC), the world premiere of Ruth Fazal's deeply moving Oratorio Terezin in Toronto, performances of Bach's Mass in B minor at King's College, the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, at St. Albans Organ Festival, the Hercules Saal in Munich as well as at the Kennedy Center and at Carnegie Hall in celebration of the Centenary of its first North American performance. Concerts and an acclaimed video recording with the Bach specialist, Helmuth Rilling and the Bach Akademie of Stuttgart, as well as concerts with the Bach Aria Group and the Washington Bach Consort are also among his past credits. Mr. Lichti has been a frequent guest artist at most North American Bach Festivals, notably The Bach Festival in Bethlehem, PA, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Baldwin-Wallace Festival in Berea, Ohio, the Shenandoah Bach Festival and the Oregon Bach Festival. He has been heard in concert with the orchestras of San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Vancouver, Cleveland, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg, Kitchener-Waterloo and Newark; with Boston's Handel & Haydn Society, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Canadian Chambre Ensemble, Philharmonia Baroque of San Francisco, Les Violons du Roy and Tafelmusik.

A popular recitalist and acclaimed Lieder singer, Lichti has sung Schubert's Winterreise at Washington's National Gallery, for Festival Canada in Ottawa, for national broadcast on the CBC from Toronto, at the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival in Virginia, for Temple Square Concerts in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Manoel Theatre in Valetta, Malta, the 2008 Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, and in Kfar Vradim, Israel. His critically acclaimed recording of this song cycle with colleague Leslie De'Ath is a recent release on ANALEKTA. Fans of the many recitals given by Mr. Lichti , mezzo soprano Catherine Robbin and Leslie De'Ath were delighted with their 2010 release of Hugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch also on ANALEKTA.

Earlier releases by Mr. Lichti include Songs of Hugo Wolf, two recordings of Bach Cantatas and the Mass in B minor with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem (all on the Dorian label), Sony's "The Gift of Messiah", and two CDs of Lieder by Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms with pianist Janina Fialkowska on the Opening Day label. A Centaur Records recording of baroque gems, The Soulful Bach &Telemann, features Mr. Lichti with the American early music ensemble "Olde Friends". A more recent recording with the Ottawa Bach Choir, and a 2009 ANALEKTA recording with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem build on his extensive discography.

Highlights of the upcoming season include performances of the St. Matthew Passion with the Ottawa Bach Society on their 10th anniversary, also at the 80th annual Bach Festival at Baldwin-Wallace College, in Berea, Ohio, and with the Grand Philharmonic Choir in Kitchener, Ontario. In May 2012 he will return to the Bach Festival in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for the Mass in B minor and selected cantatas, and thereafter will appear for the first time at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Tilford Bach Society in England in a performance of the St. John Passion.