Bryan Wagorn

Canadian-American pianist Bryan Wagorn serves as Assistant Conductor at The Metropolitan Opera. He has appeared on such television and radio stations as Good Morning America, WQXR and CBC Radio. He regularly performs with the Met Chamber Ensemble in concerts atCarnegie Hall and performed as pianist in the Met’s Grammy-winning productions of Gershwin’s“Porgy and Bess” and Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in my Bones” and “Champion”. He recentlyperformed (on a Steinway) the role of pianist Boleslao Lazinski onstage at the Metropolitan  Opera in their 2023 production of Giordano’s Fedora directed by David McVicar, the role havingbeen last performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet. As a conductor he collaborated with Angel Blueand the LA Opera on a digital short film with music by David Lang directed by Bill Morrison. He also performed and recorded on the Met Museum’s Cristofori fortepiano, the oldest such instrument in existence. In 2022 he performed in Carnegie Hall’s gala fundraiser for Ukraine Stern Auditorium along such artists as Angel Blue, Isabel Leonard, Evgeny Kissin, and many others.
Mr. Wagorn has been engaged by summer festivals including Tanglewood, Ravinia, Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Marlboro, Seiji Ozawa’s Matsumoto festival, and has served on the faculties of the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada’s Summer Music Institute, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra. He has performed with internationally acclaimed artists including Midori, Joyce DiDonato, Nadine Sierra, Pinchas Zukerman, Renee Fleming, and Anthony Roth Costanzo. He has been a guest teacher at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto, the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Glynebourne’s Jerwood Young Artist Program, and the McGill Schulich School of Music.
He made his solo recital debut at New York's Carnegie Hall in 2009 and has also appeared at the Library of Congress, the United Nations General Assembly, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Hamburg Opera, Summer Stage in New York’s Central Park, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and he has also toured extensively with Jeunesses Musicales. His extensive work as collaborative pianist includes recitals for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Richard Tucker Foundation, and George London Foundation.
Mr. Wagorn is on the advisory boards of the Hildegard Behrens Foundation and the Bagby
Foundation, and serves on faculty at the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, the Mannes College of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music.

Bryan Wagorn is a Steinway Artist.