John Charles Pierce (born January 11, 1959) is an American operatic tenor and academic voice teacher.
He made an international career based in Germany, and focused on Wagner roles such as Tannhäuser, Lohengrin and Tristan.
He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to 1982, with William Warfield, Grace Wilson and John Wustman, graduating as a Master of Music.
[1] He began his career as a baritone,[2] but turned to the heldentenor repertoire, and won the Wagner-Preis[3] of the Liederkranz Foundation Competition in New York City in 1992.
In 2004, he appeared in the title role of Friedrich Cerha's Der Rattenfänger at the Wiener Festwochen.