Ted is a tenor native to St. Paul, Minnesota. He trained in theatre and music at Norwestern University with graduate work at Manhattan School of Music. In 2007, he performed the role of Peter Quint in Britten's Turn of the Screw and Dr. Caius in Verdi's Falstaff with the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program. He also sang the Hotel Porter in Britten's Death in Venice with Aldeburgh and Bregenz Festivals.

With Seattle Opera as a Young Artist, Ted has also performed a full range of Mozart roles from Ferrando in Cosi Fan Tutté to Tamino in The Magic Flute to Don Basilio/Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro. Opera premieres include, the title role in Al Biales' Mozart in Manhattan; Ludwig in The Lost Childhood with American Opera Projects. Ted has sung as a young artist with the Opera Theatre of St Louis, Central City Opera, and the Britten-Pears Programme. With Britten-Pears, Ted sang the role of Telemaco in Monteverdi's Il Ritorno D'Ulisse in patria at the Globe Theatre.

As a recitalist, he has premiered songs by Ned Rorem and John Musto with the New York Festival of Song, regularly appeared with the Greenwich Music Festival, and in recital with Seattle Opera. Recent credits include the tenor soloist in Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Birmingham Sinfonia, the title role in Britten's Saint Nicholas with the New Elizabethan Singers, and a West End season of Gilbert & Sullivan at the Gielgud Theatre. Upcoming engagements include Castelward Opera's 2008 Gala and revisiting Don Basilio with Seattle Opera mainstage.