Baritone Michael Hix has been praised by critics for his "expressive voice" and "commanding stage presence." His career highlights include performances at Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and Vienna’s Musikverein. Hix is a sought after performer of concert/orchestral works with over 70 oratorio/cantata/concert roles in his repertoire. He won 3rd Place in the American Prize in Art Song and Oratorio Performance in 2019. European performances include the bass solos in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Heligmesse at the International Haydn Festival in Vienna, Austria and song recitals in Leipzig, Dresden, Lobau, and Lindlar Germany. He has been featured as a soloist in concerts with the Boston Pops, Oregon Bach Festival, Arizona Bach Festival, Santa Fe Symphony, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Georgia Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Brevard Symphony Orchestra, and New York City’s Trinity Lutheran Bach Vespers Series and the Tallahassee Bach Parley among others. Included among his over 20 stage roles are Mad King George in Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King, Falke in Die Fledermaus, the Drunken Poet in The Fairy Queen, Grosvenor in Patience, Lord Mountararat in Iolanthe, Germont in La Traviata, Don Alfonso in Cosí fan tutte, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, Scaramba in El Capitan, Noye in Noye’s Fludde, and Bertouf in the world premiere of A Friend of Napoleon by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Robert Ward.