Christopher Leimgruber, tenor, is currently pursuing a Masters in Opera at the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Gerald Martin Moore. A recent graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, he has performed in several Oberlin Opera Theater productions. Most memorably Count Alberto in Rossini’s L’Occasione fa il ladro, and Gil in the world premiere of Mathew Recio’s The Puppy Episode. Also at Oberlin, Christopher was the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah. In recital he has sung Schumann’s Liederkreis Op.24, Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel, Vaughan Williams Ten Blake Songs for Tenor and Oboe, and Beethoven’s An die Ferne Geliebte. Most recently he finished a summer with the Janiec Opera Company singing the role of Le Prince Charmant in Viardot’s Cendrillon. In competition, he was a winner of the Schmidt Undergraduate award in 2023, and a YoungArts finalist in 2021. Christopher is looking forward to sing Peter Quint in Britten's Turn of the Screw with Yale Opera this upcoming spring.