British-Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk is the Royal Opera House principal artist, described by The Times as "the finest voice on stage, with the immaculate Italianate line" and "rich, deep voice capable of great versatility" by Bachtrack.
His recent engagements include Onegin for La Monnaie De Munt in Brussels and for Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Iolanta at Albert Hall with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Germont (La Traviata) for NI opera and opera de Bauge, The Bells for London Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Gerard (Andrea Chenier) Chelsea Opera Group, Marcello (La Bohème) for Royal Opera House London, Zurich Opera House, NI Opera, Opera North, Lescaut (Manon) for Opernhaus Zürich, Il Conte di Luna Il trovatore (Opéra de Baugé), Count Rodolfo in Margherita (Wexford Festival Opera), Eugene Onegin (Ukraine National Opera), Ping (Zurich Opera) and others.
Plans include title role in Eugene Onegin for National Theatre Tokyo, Robert in Iolanta with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Don Giovanni for Savonlinna Festival, Rodrigo Posa in Don Carlos for Opera De Bauge and Kyiv National Opera and others.
Yuriy is a prize winner in Queen Sonja International Singing Competition (Norway), Montserrat Caballe International Singing Competition (Spain), Ottavio Ziino International Singing Competition (Rome), Monastero Foundation Bel Canto competition (USA), Fritz and Lavinia Jensen competition (USA) and Chicago NATS vocal competition. His other appearances include the King of Egypt in Verdi’s Aida excerpt in tribute to Martina Arroyo at 36th Kennedy Center Honors Awards in Washington DC, concerts for the Royal family at the Buckingham and Windsor palaces, appearances for BBC TV series and BBC radio 3 Sean Rafferty's In Tune
Together with Anush Hovanissyan and Sergei Rybin, Yuriy has recorded the collection of Rimsky-Korsakov romances for Stone Records where his "wonderful legato and superb Russian delivery that make this collection irresistible" according to the Sunday Times.
In 2015/2017 Yuriy was a member of Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young artist programme where he sang Schlemil (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Baron Douphol (La Traviata), Prince Yamadori (Madama Butterfly), Flemish Deputy (Don Carlo), Mandarin (Turandot), various roles in The Nose, and covered Giorgio Germont (La Traviata) and Rodrigo Posa (Don Carlo), Eugene Onegin (Onegin), Blazes (Lighthouse), Germano (La Scala di Setta), Angelotti (Tosca), Michonet (Adriana Lecouvrer), Dumas (Andrea Chénier), Prince Yamadori (Madama Butterfly), and Johann (Werther), while covering Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Alfio (Cavaleria Rusticana), Shekalov (Boris Godunov), Creon (Oedipe) and Shaunard (La Boheme).
Born in Kiev, Ukraine, he discovered his passion for Opera after coming to Chicago and meeting professor Marc Alon Embree. Yuriy studied Vocal Performance at DePaul University School of Music. He also holds Bachelor and Masters degrees in finance and accounting from Kyiv National Economic University. Before embarking on a career as a singer he was a M&A financial advisor with PwC for eight years.