Rose Bowl winner Hutton has ‘ambition to do a lot of things’

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WINNIPEG - Tenor Aaron Hutton isn’t sure where his voice is going to carry him, but his resumé bloomed on Saturday when he won the prestigious Rose Bowl trophy at the 93rd annual Winnipeg Music Festival.

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WINNIPEG – Tenor Aaron Hutton isn’t sure where his voice is going to carry him, but his resumé bloomed on Saturday when he won the prestigious Rose Bowl trophy at the 93rd annual Winnipeg Music Festival.

“I have a real ambition to do a lot of things,” said the 22-year-old, who was judged the top senior vocalist in the festival, beating six competitors with his performance of a Rossini art song and a Weill aria.

“I really like the classical repertoire, but I think I’d really like a career in musical theatre,” he said. “Who knows? I really like singing oratorio, and there’s some light opera stuff I would love to do. I have a passion for new music, too.”

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Aaron Hutton, 22, top singer in the Winnipeg Music Festival, with the Rose Bowl trophy.
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Aaron Hutton, 22, top singer in the Winnipeg Music Festival, with the Rose Bowl trophy.

The versatile singer won five male classes in the festival: Italian art song, 20th/21st-century English art song, oratorio aria, Bach aria and opera aria.

Hutton is in his final year as a voice major at the University of Manitoba. Raised in Minnedosa, he credits his high-school stint in the Westman Youth Choir with inspiring him to pursue music.

He studies under Donna Fletcher, who won the Rose Bowl in 1994.

Hutton has already co-starred in Dry Cold Productions’ The Light in the Piazza and performed in three Rainbow Stage shows.

In May, he’ll sing the role of Tobias Ragg in Dry Cold’s Sweeney Todd. This summer, he’ll reprise his role in The Light in the Piazza in the six-week Opera NUOVA training program in Edmonton.

In November, he and other Dry Cold singers will appear with Len Cariou — Broadway’s original Sweeney Todd — in the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra pops show Send in the Clowns: An Evening of Stephen Sondheim & Len Cariou.

Hutton says his dream role is to play Tony in West Side Story.

The Rose Bowl runner-up was Amanda Poole.

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