Syd West

Syd West (he/him) is a student at Western Michigan University studying Vocal Performance. Syd is studying to be an opera singer and vocal coach specializing in transgender singers. At WMU he is a singer in University Chorale, and has performed the opera roles of Don Giovanni in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”, the Mayor in Bizet’s “Doctor Miracle”, Count Almaviva in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro”, and Sergeant Belcore in Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore”. In November he will be performing the role of Aeneas in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas”. He also studied in Italy at the Brancaleoni International Music Festival in 2023, where he performed the role of Count Almaviva in their production of “Le Nozze di Figaro”.