Tyson Deaton

American conductor and pianist Tyson Deaton has established a reputation as one of the most versatile collaborators of his generation. With a reputation for leading energetic and inventive performances, his repertoire spans the Baroque era to Verdi, Mozart to Sondheim, and the music of our own time. He is frequently entrusted with the development and performance of new works, including The Falling and the Rising (Redler/Dye), A Wrinkle in Time (Libby Larsen), and Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice, among works by Adamo, Heggie, Hartke/Schweitzer, and Kennedy Verrett, to name a few. He has appeared with San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Kentucky Opera, Atlanta Opera, and Opera Birmingham, as well as the Louisville Orchestra and the Alabama Symphony, in venues including the John F. Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Jacob’s Pillow, among others. His recent debut with the Phoenix Symphony, conducting Handel’s Messiah, was followed closely by a Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci double bill. Notable collaborative partners on the recital stage have included Denyce Graves, Sherrill Milnes, Julie Landsman, Linda Wang, Matthew Worth, Talise Trevigne, Steven LaBrie, Judith Kellock, Rainelle Krause, and many others. As a scholar and editor, he completed a landmark five-volume critical edition of the songs of Joseph Bologne de Saint-George in 2025, and is also responsible for the revised the score of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Tibetan Book of the Dead following conducting performances of that work. Acclaimed in the press, his recording of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied (Albany) was named among the Washington Post’s “Best of the Year” and OperaNews’ “12 Best Full-Length Opera Recordings.”