Mr. Sanders begins the 2023-2024 season with a debut as the title role in Roméo et Juliette with Opera San José, where he also stars as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He joins the roster of the Lyric Opera of Chicago to cover Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola, covers Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at Los Angeles Opera, and debuts at Nashville Opera as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte. He returns to the Metropolitan Opera to workshop the title character of Sam Clay in Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and performs the roles of Major Baker, Pvt. Carter, and Spc. Rodriguez in Huang Ruo’s An American Soldier at Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York City. During the summer he will join Berkshire Lyric as the tenor soloist in Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 at Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall and Madison Opera for their annual Opera In The Park concert.

The 2022-2023 season saw Mr. Sanders join the roster of The Metropolitan Opera for Robert Carsen’s production of Der Rosenkavalier. He debuted as Goro in Madama Butterfly with Palm Beach Opera, where he also covered Ferrando in Così fan tutte. In competition, he was a finalist in the prestigious Belvedere Singing Competition, and an award winner in the Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition.

Mr. Sanders made his international debut in 2017 at Teatro Regio Torino as Der Hirte in Tristan und Isolde conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. During his year-long tenure at Teatro Regio, he sang roles in Turandot (Principe di Persia), Salome (Zweiter Nazarener), Montiverdi’s L’Orfeo (Eco/secondo spirito), Le nozze di Figaro (Don Curzio), and Verdi’s I Lombardi alla prima crocciata (Il Priore di Milano) which was recorded for Naxos. In that same season, he also made his house debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin as Il giudice in Un ballo in Maschera conducted by Donald Runnicles.

Past seasons include performances with Heartbeat Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Berkshire Opera Festival as Borsa in Rigoletto, Madison Opera as Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd, and a concert version of Frank Martin’s rarely heard Le Vin Herbé co-produced by Wolf Trap Opera and Washington Concert Opera.

In concert, Mr. Sanders made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2019 as a soloist in Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music. He has appeared as a guest soloist with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra as the titular character in Berlioz’s Lélio, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Lee Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom Exhibit featuring the music of Schubert. Additional concert credits include: tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. John Passion, and Vaughan Williams’ Pilgrim’s Journey.

As a cross-over cabaret artist, Mr. Sanders has created and performed new works for the Miami Institute of Contemporary Art and the New York State Council on the Arts. He debuted at New York City’s iconic Public Theater in 2021 as part of a cabaret curated by Justin Vivian Bond for New York State’s NYPopsUp initiative.

An honored recipient of many grants and awards, Mr. Sanders was most recently awarded a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Support for Artists initiative. In 2021, he was awarded a study grant from The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition after being named a national Semi-Finalist in 2020. He was the winner of the prestigious Amber Capital Scholarship from the Opera Foundation in 2017, the Sachi Liebersgesell award from Opera Index in 2019, and a winner of the 2017 Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship Competition. Mr. Sanders won second prize at the 2019 Opera at Florham Violetta DuPont Competition, third prize in the 2018 Grand Stage International Song and Lieder Competition, was a finalist in the 2023 Belvedere Singing Competition, and an encouragement award winner in the 2023 Loren L. Zachary Society National Vocal Competition. In 2015, he received a career grant from Wolf Trap Opera.

Mr. Sanders was a Young Artist with Bel Canto at Caramoor in 2017, and a Studio Artist with Wolf Trap Opera in 2014/2015. He holds a Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.