Andrew Haji is one of today’s most sought-after lyric tenors, celebrated on both concert and operatic stages for his musical sensitivity, radiant artistry, and distinctive vocal beauty. His effortlessly transcendent voice has been praised as “bright yet warm, mellifluous yet ringing, used with grace and all the requisite legato lines,” while critics have noted that “few have the lyric beauty and carrying power that Haji has.” The acclaimed Canadian tenor is recognized internationally for his musical rapture and silky, clarion vocal prowess.
Highlights of Andrew Haji’s 2026–27 season include Mozart’s Requiem with the Grant Park Music Festival; Handel’s Messiah with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) with Edmonton Opera; Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra; François Dompierre’s Requiem with l’Orchestre symphonique de Gatineau; Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Handel and Haydn Society; and Haydn’s The Creation with the National Arts Centre Orchestra.
During the 2025–26 season, Haji made notable debuts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Boston Baroque in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. He also returned to the Seattle Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for Handel’s Messiah, appeared with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Orff’s Carmina Burana, with Les Violons du Roy in Mozart’s Requiem, and with the San Francisco Symphony in Bach’s Easter Oratorio.
Recent orchestral engagements throughout the United States and Canada have included Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck; Bach’s Easter Oratorio with the Cleveland Orchestra under Bernard Labadie; Handel’s Messiah with the Houston Symphony; Bach’s St. John Passion with the Seattle Symphony and Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall; Mozart’s Requiem with the Kansas City Symphony; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and National Arts Centre Orchestra; Bach cantatas with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Haydn’s The Seasons with the Handel and Haydn Society; Haydn’s The Creation with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Verdi’s Requiem at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music; Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; and Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Elora Festival. In Europe, Haji has appeared with the English Concert, at the Salzburg Festival, and with the Dresdner Philharmonie and NDR Philharmonie. He has collaborated with conductors including Bernard Labadie, Jonathan Cohen, John Butt, Rafael Payare, Alexander Shelley, and Manfred Honeck.
Notable opera successes include the title role in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito; Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte; Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata; Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore; Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi; Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte; Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème; and Cassio in Verdi’s Otello with the Canadian Opera Company. Other acclaimed appearances include Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth and Pollione in Bellini’s Norma with Calgary Opera; Rodolfo in La bohème with Montréal’s Orchestre Philharmonique et Chœur des Mélomanes and Edmonton Opera; Jonathan in Handel’s Saul at the Edinburgh International Festival; Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at Taiwan’s National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts; Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa; Alfredo in La traviata with Vancouver Opera; Alfred in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus with Saskatoon Opera; and the title role in La clemenza di Tito with Pacific Opera Victoria.
During the 2020–21 season, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Haji starred in a variety of digital and streaming productions, including Holst’s Sāvitri for Against the Grain Theatre, Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Mozart’s Requiem for the Canadian Opera Company, before returning to the stage as Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opéra de Québec.
An alumnus of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio, Haji has received awards from the Marilyn Horne Song Competition and the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble. He was awarded the Grand Prix at the 50th International Vocal Competition in ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, and the Oratorio Prize at the Montreal International Music Competition.
Haji earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, where he appeared in productions including Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Bernstein’s Candide, and Haydn’s Il mondo della luna, among others. He has also participated in prestigious young artist programs including the Salzburg Festival Young Singers Project, the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy, the Music Academy of the West, and Accademia Europea dell’Opera.
August 2026
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