Spencer Kryzanowski is a passionate crossover artist working as a conductor/music director, répétiteur, and vocal coach in both musical theatre and opera. Currently, he is the music director for Good Mess Opera Theatre; a staff member in the University of Toronto Opera department; music director with Bravo Academy for the Performing Arts; and resident music director with Pop Goes the Opera in Edmonton.

Spencer’s recent music directing credits include Newsies and Mean Girls: The Musical with Bravo Academy and Hank & Gremlin with Good Mess Opera (a new adaptation of Hansel and Gretel that will be made into a feature-length Claymation film). His other conducting and music directing credits include Massenet’s Cendrillon, Puccini’s Il tabarro, Arthur Benjamin’s A Tale of Two Cities, Puccini’s La bohème, and Puccini’s Suor Angelica.

Spencer’s recent répétiteur credits include Guerrero’s El huésped del sevillano with Toronto Operetta Theatre, Nino Rota’s Il cappello di paglia di Firenze, and Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel with Berlin Opera Academy. Spencer had the pleasure of assisting in a workshop of Indians on Vacation by Ian Cusson and Royce Vavrek in 2024 as part of a collaboration with Against the Grain Theatre and Edmonton Opera.