Morgan Manifacier, DMA

Praised as a performer who “gives himself completely to the singing” (Unser Lübeck), French tenor Morgan Manifacier serves on faculty at Baylor University as Assistant Professor of Voice. He has sung many of the leading opera roles of the repertoire, including Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande, the title role of Pygmalion by Rameau, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Sultan Soliman in Zaide, Agenore in Il re pastore, and Borsa in Rigoletto, among others. 

On the concert stage, he has performed internationally at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, The University of Oxford with the Oxford International Song Festival, Werner Hall with Cincinnati Song Initiative, Kulturwerft Gollan with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Lauderdale House in London, Walter Hall at The University of Toronto, Conservatoire national supérieur d’Art dramatique in Paris, and Thayer Hall at Colburn in Los Angeles. He is a two-time winner of The American Prize in Voice, the recipient of the Jere H. Brophy Scholar Award from the S. Livingston Mather Vocal Competition, and the winner of the Duo Prize at the John Kerr Awards for English Song with his duo partner, pianist Corinne Penner.

With a vast repertoire spanning from the Renaissance to world premieres, Dr. Manifacier is a committed proponent of art song repertoire. He notably champions the works of French composers and frequently performs Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel, Fauré’s La bonne chanson, and other great cycles of the canon. In demand as a guest teacher and clinician, Dr. Manifacier has presented lectures and masterclasses at distinguished universities across the world, including Temple University, Gachon University (Seoul), Kyoto City University of Arts, Concordia College, the University of Mobile, the University of Nevada at Reno, and Trinity College (Hartford). 

Dr. Manifacier holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University, where he studied under Randall Scarlata and Jeremy Little. He is the grateful recipient of several career grants from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and The Performing Arts Consortium.