As a performer, his operatic repertoire has encompassed roles including Sid in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring, Des Grieux in Massenet’s Le Portrait de Manon, Figaro in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Billy Bigelow in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, Yamadori in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Masetto and Don Giovanni in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Alvaro in Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, and Hannah Before in Laura Kaminsky and Mark Campbell’s As One. He has worked with opera companies throughout the United States, including as a Bonfils-Stanton Studio Artist and Apprentice Artist with Central City Opera, and as an Artist-in-Residence with Pensacola Opera and Opera on the James.

A frequent recitalist and concert artist, Gaudreau’s work is deeply rooted in the traditions of French and German song. His repertoire includes new music, jazz, and musical theatre, with a particular interest in the ways these traditions intersect. He has performed Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures and Schumann’s Spanische Liebeslieder at Jordan Hall, recorded Pavel Haas’s Four Songs on Chinese Poetry for an NEC Liederabend, and presented programs of the Great American Songbook at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. His recent NEC faculty recital with pianist Cameron Stowe featured music by Barber, Britten, Ravel, and Poulenc; the pair were also Artists in Residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.

Gaudreau has been praised for his “vitality and precision” and for a “fascinating study of shifting sonorities and sonic possibilities” by the Boston Music Intelligencer following a performance of Ligeti at Boston Symphony Hall. He holds degrees from the New England Conservatory.