Daniel Ebbers

Daniel Ebbers joined the faculty of University of the Pacific in the fall of 2004. From 2015 to 2017, he served as the Interim Dean of the Conservatory. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in voice from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a Master of Music degree in voice from the University of Southern California. At Pacific, Ebbers teaches vocal performance and has been a managing director and instructor at the Pacific Opera Institute.

Ebbers’s students’ achievements range from winning the Met National Council auditions to advancing to the finals of American Idol. In addition, his students are singing on stages all over the world and have been regulars at many high-profile performing venues including the Met, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Houston Grand, Santa Fe, San Francisco Opera and the Music Academy of the West. 

Highlights of Ebbers's performances include a critically acclaimed appearance as Sir Bedivere with baritone Thomas Hampson at the Washington National Cathedral, in Elinor Remick Warren's “The Legend of King Arthur.” As an artist in residence with the Los Angeles Opera, Ebbers has performed as Gastone in “La Traviata” and covered leading roles including Don Ottavio in “Albert Herring,” Lysander in “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and Ernesto and Lindoro in “L'Italiana in Algeri.”

An accomplished concert soloist, Ebbers has appeared with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony in Israel, and has appeared twice at both Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Ebbers has performed Handel's “Messiah” in two Chicago venues, at new Orchestra Hall and at the Chicago Lyric Opera. A distinguished Mozart interpreter, he has appeared as Don Ottavio with Opera Theater of Connecticut, Belmonte in San Diego Comic Opera's production of “Abduction from the Seraglio,” as tenor soloist in Mozart's “Requiem” at the Ruldophinum in Prague. His other mainstay roles have been the Duke of Mantua in Anchorage Opera's production of “Rigoletto,” Cassio in “Otello” and as Prince Edwin in “The Gypsy Princess” with Greensboro Opera and the San Diego Comic Opera.

Ebbers has recently appeared as the tenor soloist in a world premiere of Ho Jun Lee’s “Cantata” for traditional Korean percussion and chorus with the Cheungju Symphony, South Korea. He has appeared with the Sacramento Opera as Cassio in Verdi's “Otello,” Basilio in “Le Nozze di Figaro” and as Beppe in “Pagliacci.” Other recent engagements include Count Almaviva in “The Barber of Seville” and Fenton in Nicolai's “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” In concert, Ebbers has appeared with the prestigious Music in the Vineyards Festival, the Stockton Chorale in Mendelssohn's Elijah, the Napa Valley Chorale singing Dvorak's Mass in D, in addition to Mozart's Mass in C Minor.

In research and performance, Ebbers is regarded as an expert in the music of Benjamin Britten. He recently appeared in the title role of St. Nicholas in Britten's tour de force “Cantata” for tenor, orchestra and choir, in addition to performing the great masterpiece “Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings” with the Bear Valley Music Festival and the St John's Chamber Music Series.

In addition to his resident program with Los Angeles Opera, Ebbers has been an apprentice with Utah Festival Opera Young Artist Program, Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program, Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies and for two summers with the Music Academy of the West. Among his regional engagements, he has appeared as a principal artist with San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Utah Festival Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Fairbanks Symphony and the Sanibel Music Festival. Ebbers toured the United States as tenor soloist in Richard Einhorn's oratorio “Voices of Light-The Passion of Joan of Arc.” During that tour, he appeared as guest soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolftrap, the Los Angles Mozart Orchestra, the Charleston Concert Association and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.