Originally from Chatham, tenor Ian Cleary recently completed an Opera Diploma at the University of British Columbia and has a Bachelor of Music from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Ian was most recently seen performing with Vancouver Opera as a part of the 2021 Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program. He has performed the roles of Don Jose in Carmen: Up Close and Personal with Vancouver Opera; Hoffmann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Armoured Guard in Die Zauberflöte with the UBC Opera Ensemble; Hoffmann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Schoolmaster in Cunning Little Vixen with Opera Laurier; Judge Roan in Parade and Giuseppe in The Gondoliers with Opera Nuova.
He has studied and worked with J. Patrick Raftery, Kimberly Barber, Richard Epp, Leslie Dala, Raffi Armenian, Rosemary Thomson, Nancy Hermiston, Anna Theodosakis, Brian Deedrick and Rob Herriot.