Described by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a dignified and beautiful singer, bass-baritone Paul Max Tipton performs and records throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For the 2025-2026 season, he makes debuts at the Kansas City Symphony & Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, singing Handel’s Messiah, and will return to Tucson Symphony Orchestra singing the same. He will join Nicholas McGegan and Cantata Collective to sing Bach’s Ascension Oratorio and select cantatas, and will record 17th-century German cantatas for the BIS label with Masaaki Suzuki at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Additionally he will make appearances with Conspirare & Craig Hella Johnson in Austin and Tenet Vocal Artists & Jolle Greenleaf in NYC.
In recent seasons he debuted at Seattle Symphony in Bach’s St. John Passion as Christus, returned to Tokyo for Handel’s Messiah with Bach Collegium Japan, and sang the role of Jupiter in John Eccles’ Semele with American Baroque Opera, being called “gloriously godly” by the Dallas Morning News. Recent seasons include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Bach Collegium Japan in Tokyo, covering the title role in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Handel & Haydn Society under Raphaël Pichon, Haydn’s Creation with Pacific Symphony, and Plutone in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Göteborg Baroque. Recent recordings include Bach’s St. John Passion as Christus with Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan for Avie Records and solo bass cantatas by Nicolaus Bruhns with Masaki Suzuki for BIS Records. In 2012 He was made a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson fellow at Emmanuel Music in Boston. Mr. Tipton holds an MMus from Yale University and resides in New York City.
