Native-American (Pit River and Wintu Tribes) bass-baritone Daniel Yoder is currently a member of the San Francisco Opera Chorus and the American Bach Soloists. He has performed with numerous groups, including the Kronos Quartet, West Edge Opera,Pocket Opera, Shasta Symphony, Diablo Symphony, Sacramento Choral Society, MarinSymphony, The Bracebridge Dinner at Yosemite, Lamplighters Music Theater, Sacramento Opera, Fresno Grand Opera, the North State Symphony, the UCDavis Orchestra and Chorus, UCDavis Early Music Ensemble, Sinfonia Spirituosa, and others in seemingly countless solo, choral, and church engagements.
Hailed by the San Francisco Classical Voice for his “powerful” and “accurate” performances, by the Sacramento Press for his “gorgeous solos,” and by the Sacramento Bee for his “polished baritone,” Mr. Yoder’s roles include Zurga in Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers, Leporello and Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Betto in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Gugliermo in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Omar in Weber’s Abu Hassan, Silvio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, and Seneca in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea. His recent roles include Von Kalle in Marks’ and Peers’ Mata Hari, Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze de Figaro, Lieutenant in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Yeoman of the Guard, Volere in Gounod’s The Mock Doctor, the Sheriff in Flotow’s Martha, Schaunard in Leoncavallo’s La Boheme, the Doctor and Baron in Verdi’s La Traviata, Marcello in Puccini’s La Boheme, Mr. Fogg in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, and as The Chef and Sir Carmichael in The Bracebridge Dinner at Yosemite.
In concert, Mr. Yoder has sung the roles of Achilla in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Claudius in Handel’s Agrippina, and the Messenger in Handel’s Belshazzar. He has delighted audiences with his numerous performances of the bass solos in Handel’s Messiah, as well as solos in the Mass in C Major and Christus am Ölberge, Op. 85, of Beethoven, the solos in the Requiems of Mozart, Duruflé, Fauré, and Malcolm Archer, and in the Coronation Mass, Great Mass in C, and the Missa Brevis in F of Mozart. He has also performed the Paukenmesse of Haydn, The Seven Last Words of Christ by Theodore Dubois, the Five Mystical Songs of Vaughan Williams, and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast. A lifelong fan of Bach, Mr. Yoder has enjoyed performing the solos in Bach’s Durchlauchster Leopold (BWV 173) and Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir (BWV 173a) cantatas, as well as the St. John’s Passion (BWV 245). Upcoming engagements include singing the Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) of Bach with the American Bach Soloists, as well as Bach’s Magnificat (BWV 243) with the Chico State Orchestra and Chorus.