Brian Hotchkin is a baritone, vocal instructor, and stage director. Hailed for his “strong and effortless” voice and his “unerring, witty sense of theater,” Brian has performed opera, music theater and cabaret performances with companies that include the Virginia Opera, Opera New Jersey, Opera Santa Barbara, Chamber Opera Chicago, and the Aspen Music Festival. His many operatic roles include Papageno in The Magic Flute, both Marcello and Schaunard in La bohème, and the title role in The Marriage of Figaro. Equally at home in operetta and musical theater, Brian has performed leading roles including KoKo in The Mikado, Bobby in Sondheim’s Company and Merlyn/Pellinore in Camelot. As a stage director, Brian has led recent productions of Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza and Sweeney Todd for Ventura College. Brian served as Company Manager and Artistic Administrator for Opera Santa Barbara, and currently teaches singing to students of all ages at his private voice studio in Santa Barbara.