Additional credits include Sharpless in Madama Butterfly for the Utah Opera, Lt. Gordon in Puts’s Silent Night for Calgary Opera, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor for Pacific Opera Victoria, the Count in Le nozze di Figaro for Opera Lyra Ottawa, Baron Scarpia in Tosca for Opéra de Québec. On the concert stage he has been heard in Messiah with the New York Philharmonic and in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri with the Vancouver Symphony. Festival appearances have included the Seattle Chamber Society series with James Ehnes, and Verdi’s Requiem for the New Hampshire Music Festival. 

Nominated for two Grammy awards and three Juno awards, Westman has recorded for Decca, Opera Rara, CBC and BBC. Though widely regarded as an ideal exponent of the Verdi baritone roles, he has also been hailed for leading roles in the works of Puccini, Massenet, Donizetti, Janaček, Bizet, Britten and Mozart for many of the principal opera houses in North America and Europe including the Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Vancouver Opera, English National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, New York City Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, the Dallas Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Wexford Festival (Ireland), the opera houses of Graz, Cologne and many more. 

Mr. Westman also thrives in art song repertoire, having performed recitals for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the George London Foundation, the Aldeburgh Connection, the Canadian Arts and Letters Club, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Stratford Summer Music Festival, the Schawbacher Debut Recital Series, the Michigan Chamber Music Society, the Lanaudière Festival, Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyrique and the Wexford Festival, Ireland. 

His success on the concert stage continues to flourish and he has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras; Messiah alone has taken him to the New York Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), Vancouver Symphony, Baltimore Symphony and the Detroit Symphony. 

Baritone in Residence with the prestigious San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship program, his critically acclaimed performances at the San Francisco Opera include Guglielmo (Così tan tutte); Marcello (La bohème); Silvio (Pagliacci); Germont (La traviata); Renato (Un ballo in maschera) and Sid (Albert Herring). Mr. Westman placed first in all the international competitions in which he has participated, including the George London Competition, the D’angelo Competition, the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyrique, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation and the Marilyn Horne Foundation Award. He was a finalist and the audience favourite at the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. 

Further credits include Sharpless in Madama Butterfly for Dallas Opera and Santa Fe Opera; Talbot in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda for Opéra de Montréal; Sandy Keith in Tovey’s The Inventor remounted for Calgary Opera, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Indianapolis Symphony; plus recording and performing Britten’s War Requiem in Japan under Seiji Ozawa for Decca. 

Formerly a successful boy treble, Mr. Westman toured with the American Boys Choir, the Paris Boys Choir and the Vienna Boys Choir. Known as Jamie Westman, he was the first boy ever to perform the fourth movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 (Childs View of Heaven) and toured this work with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany and Russia, performing in the Musikverein, Roy Thomson Hall and Carnegie Hall at the age of twelve. 

James Westman’s professional development has been influenced by such renowned artists as Dame Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, Renato Capecchi, Paul Esswood, John F.M. Wood, Carl Duggan, Lois Marshall, Patricia Kern, Régine Crespin, Warren Jones, Martin Katz, Virginia Zeani, Marlena Malas, Theodore Uppman, Diane Forlano, and Marilyn Horne.