Bryce Bartu
Bryce J. Bartu is a voice teacher and performer originally from Grand Island, NE. Growing up in central Nebraska, Bryce's musical career initially began playing guitar in punk and rock bands as a teenager. Since then, his musical palette has grown to include jazz, musical theater, opera, art song, pop, and sacred music.
In 2019, Bryce received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado - Boulder where he studied vocal performance, pedagogy, and performance psychology. While at CU-Boulder, Bryce served as a Barbara Doscher Voice Fellow, teaching applied voice lessons, lecture voice class, musical theater history, vocal pedagogy, lyric diction, and serving as an occasional assistant musical director. Bryce also serves as the Student Life Subcommittee Chair for the College Music Society's Committee on Academic Citizenship.
As a performer, Bryce has portrayed many operatic and musical theater roles. Recent credits include Léon in Signor Deluso, Steven Kodaly in She Loves Me, Aldolfo Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods, First Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Danilo in The Merry Widow, Arthur in Triangles, Ralph Boland in Dogfight, George in The Drowsy Chaperone, Enoch in Carousel, Jim Casey in The Grapes of Wrath, Lorenzo in Lucrezia, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Carl Lindstrum in O! Pioneers, La Remendado in Carmen, and many others.
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When Bryce isn't teaching, he enjoys complaining about Nebraska Cornhuskers football, playing his guitar along with Smashing Pumpkins albums, listening to stand-up comedy albums, pretending to know how to cook, and watching an unnecessary amount of professional wrestling.