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The Chilean-born Canadian tenor, Pablo Cesar Willey-Bustos, is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he received both his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Vocal Performance. He studied with Professor Rita Shane. His previous teachers include Peggy Dwyer and Dale Moore.
A resident of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Pablo Bustos has performed with various ensembles in the Windsor/Detroit Area. He performs regularly with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, in major choral works as well as in other special concerts. Highlights of recent concert engagements, include George Frideric Handel's Messiah (Fort Street Chorale), G.F. Handel's Solomon (Eastman-Rochester Chorus), Camille Saint-Saëns Oratorio de Noel (WSO), W.A. Mozart's Requiem (Vivificus Ensemble), Haydn's Harmonie Messe (Eastman-Rochester Chorus), Robert Schumann's Requiem (California Music Festival), Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass (Hobart and Williams Smith College).
Pablo Bustos has been an ensemble member of the Eastman Opera Theatre and a featured singer with Eastman's Collegium Musicum. He is a regular soloist for the Rochester Bach Festival's monthly Bach Cantata Series. In 2005 fall he was featured soloist in a concert including J.S. Bach's demanding tenor cantata Icharmer mensch, ich Sunden knecht BWV 55 as well as G.F. Handel operatic arias. Upcoming engagements the Evangelist for J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) with the Publick Musick (November 2005), G.F. Handel's Messiah with the Fort Street Chorale in Detroit, Michigan and Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass with the West Shore Symphony in Muskegon, Michigan.
Pablo Bustos has performed highlights from Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance (Frederic) under the auspices of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2004, he appeared in the San Francisco Bay Area singing performances of G.F. Handel's Alcina in the role of Oronte with the California Music Festival. Eastman Opera Theatre credits include: Tenor 5 in Conrad Sousa's Transformations, Fosca's Father in Sondheim's Passion, Don Narciso in Rossini's Il Turco in Italia, Lysander in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, (Pirelli), Little Bat McLean in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, and Emperor Nerone in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea. He was featured singing the role of Gavust in concert performances Johann Mattheson's Boris Goudenow with Eastman's Collegium Musicum under the direction of Paul O'Dette. Operatic engagements include his debut with Opera Theatre of Weston in the role of the Snake in Rachel Portman’s opera The Little Prince. He returned to Opera Theatre of Weston in performances of W.A. Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor (August 2006) and Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges (January 2007).
Highlights of concert appearances include G.F. Handel's Ode to St. Cecilia, conducted by Ton Koopman with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall (Ton Koopman Young Artists Workshop). Under the auspices of the Eastman School of Music, he was a featured guest soloist with pianist Beryl Garver, singing a program titled, "To Julia: Songs by and about women," featuring works by Hensel, Strozzi and Quilter. This summer Pablo Bustos will sing a program featuring Robert Schumann's Liederkreis Op. 24 and Argento's Six Elizabethan Songs, at both the Eastman School of Music and the New York State Summer School of the Arts, School of Choral Studies with pianist Greg Hankins. He has been invited to sing J.S. Bach's Cantatas BWV 62, BWV 91, BWV 121 in performances with the Malaysia Bach Festival at Thomas Kirche in Leipzig during the 2020 Bachfest Leipzig.
Recent operatic engagements include: Alfred in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, the Witch in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Tamino in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflote, and Colin in the East coast premiere of Nolan Gasser’s opera The Secret Garden with the Opera Theatre of Weston, Vermont. Pablo Bustos has participated in two modern premieres of baroque operas with the Boston based early music ensemble La Donna Musicale. He performed the role of Scipione in Maria Teresa Agnesi’s La Sofonisba and the role of Il Padre in Camilla de Rossi’s Il Figliuol Prodigo, opposite soprano Julianne Baird singing the role of La Madre.
His discography includes: The Lutheran Masses and Advent Cantatas of J.S. Bach with the Publick Musick Baroque Orchestra and Chorus, both available on the Musica Omnia Label.
Pablo Bustos currently lives in Rochester, New York, where he is the Organist/Director of Music Ministry for Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Reformation, as well as Adjunct Voice Professor for the Liberal Arts College of the Rochester Institute of Technology and Voice Instructor at the Eastman Community Music School. |
