Education
- DMA, University of British Columbia
- MMus, University of Toronto
- BMus, University of Toronto
Biography
An in-demand collaborator, Christopher Bagan is celebrated for his versatility and virtuosity as a chamber musician, basso continuo specialist, and conductor. The 2024/2025 season sees Christopher perform alongside the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Chamber Choir, the Peterborough Singers, the Amadeus Choir, and with the Toronto Bach Festival. He looks forward to conducting Opera Atelier’s upcoming production of Handel’s Acis and Galatea, leading the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
Recent performance engagements as a harpsichordist and continuo player include Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, a series of Bach cantatas with the Toronto Bach Festival, as well as concerts with the Elora Festival, Symphony Nova Scotia, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Toronto Summer Music Festival, Early Music Alberta, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Niagara Symphony Orchestra, and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Since 2021, he has served as the Assistant Music Director for Opera Atelier, making his mainstage conducting debut with the company in 2022 on Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Christopher has performed with many of the world’s leading baroque singers, instrumentalists, and conductors in performances across the globe, including tours to Chicago’s Harris Theatre and the Royal Opera of Versailles. Recent highlights of these performances are appearances with I Furiosi, Apollo's Fire, Les Dèlices, Catacoustic Consort, Les Violons du Roy, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and the Toronto Consort. He can be heard on the JUNO-nominated Handel’s Orlando with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Alexander Weimann (ATMA), La Vallée des pleurs with the Theatre of Early Music (Analekta), and works by Bruckner, Debussy, and Busoni with Gruppo Montebello (Etcetera).