During the 2025-26 season, Nathan De’Shon Myers makes his HGO debut as Jim in Porgy and Bess and Pinellino in Gianni Schicchi, part of Il trittico. His hybrid career spans 27 years and includes professional performance in opera, jazz and gospel, choral and opera conducting, private voice instruction, classroom teaching, and leading and managing teachers. He has been a featured soloist with opera companies and orchestras throughout the United States and across Europe, including Theater Neustreliz, Stadttheater Trier, Salzburg Landestheater, Chautauqua Opera, Dallas Opera, Opera Louisiane, the Amalfi Coast Festival in Italy, and Deutsche Oper Berlin where, as a fest-soloist, he performed roles such as Dandini in Cinderella, Dancairo in Carmen, Schaunard in La bohème, Ping in Turandot, Marullo in Rigoletto, Matthieu in Andrea Chenier, and more. He also performed the title roles of Gianni Schicchi, Don Giovanni, and Johnny in Ernst Krenek’s Johnny Spielt Auf. During the summer of 2018, Myers revamped his role as Julian in the South African premiere of the American opera Wading Home. Myers maintains a presence in the gospel and jazz worlds as well. He released his debut urban gospel album, Making a Way, in 2014 and was a member of the recording ensemble for Kirk Franklin’s Grammy Award-winning album, Losing My Religion, in 2015. He lent his voice and musicianship to the soundtracks of the movies Hidden Figures in 2016 and The Star in 2017. Myers currently serves on the voice faculty of AIMS in Graz, Austria and is Associate Professor of Voice at Arizona State University.