Described by the Dallas Morning News as “gloriously godly”, bass-baritone Paul Max Tipton performs throughout North America, Europe, & Asia. He recently sang Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Bach Collegium Japan under Masato Suzuki in Tokyo, Raphael & Adam in Haydn’s Creation with Pacific Symphony, Plutone in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Göteborg Baroque, Christus in Bach’s St. John Passion with Seattle Symphony, covered the title role in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Handel & Haydn Society under Raphaël Pichon, and debuted at the Carmel Bach Festival under Grete Pedersen.

For the 2026-2027 season, he makes debuts at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra singing Handel’s Messiah under Masaaki Suzuki and with A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra in Boston singing cantatas by J.S. Bach. He will rejoin Tenet Vocal Artists & Jolle Greenleaf for a fully staged performance of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo singing the role of Caronte, and will make appearances at the Richmond Symphony, with Variant 6 in Philadelphia, and with The Sebastians in NYC. In 2012, Mr. Tipton was made a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson fellow at Emmanuel Music in Boston. He holds an MMus from Yale University and can be heard on the BIS & Avie labels.