Dominik is deeply committed to the performance of contemporary music. His love for the music of our time has culminated in numerous world and North American premieres. Most recently, Dominik returned to the Tanglewood Music Center to collaborate with George Benjamin at the podium for the American premiere of his latest opera, Lessons in Love and Violence, for which his performance as Gaveston was lauded as “deliciously unhinged” by the New York Times.  He originated the role of 89 in Augusta Read Thomas and Leslie Dunton Downer’s Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun with Santa Fe Opera, the inaugural commission of the new Opera for All Voices initiative. Dominik debuted with Beth Morrison Projects in 21c Liederabend: Op. Senses at National Sawdust, an interactive evening of art song by living women composers, singing works by Gabriela Lena Frank. He returned to Beth Morrison Projects for a workshop of Paola Prestini and Royce Vavrek’s new opera, The Old Man and the Sea, at MassMOCA. At Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music, Dominik gave the world premiere of Nathan Davis’s “macrocosmic masterpiece,” (The Boston Globe) The Sand Reckoner. With NYFOS Next, Dominik joined pianist Nathaniel LaNasa for the world premiere of Matthew Ricketts’ The Threefold Terror of Love in addition to new versions of works by Shawn Jaeger and Jake Landau. He gave the New York premieres of Virko Baley’s Journey After Loves with pianist Eric Sedgwick at the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival and Ben Moore’s Ode to a Nightingale with pianist Brian Zeger at Alice Tully Hall and National Sawdust. Belavy recently joined bassoonist Ben Roidl-Ward for the world premiere of Liza Lim’s Boat Song at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science. Dominik worked closely with composer John Adams and mentor Sanford Sylvan on Adams’ The Wound Dresser, originally written for Sylvan, in a workshop with Juilliard’s Lab Orchestra. Dominik was a participant in Stephanie Blythe’s Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, a week-long festival dedicated to the music of living American composers, where he sang works by John Harbison, Jake Landau and John Musto.

Dominik’s numerous operatic appearances have included debuts at Opera Holland Park, L’Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Joye! in Aiken Festival, each in the title role of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. He debuted as Jim Larkens in Puccini’s La fanciulla del West at Detroit Opera and was a Gerdine Young Artist at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis where he sang Yakuside in Madame Butterfly and Constable and Trucker Joe in The Grapes of Wrath. At The Juilliard School, he was featured as Thomas Bouché in Weill’s Down in the Valley, L’horloge Comtoise and L’arbre in Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortilèges and Conte Perruchetto in Haydn’s La fedeltà premiata and covered Kuligin in Janáček’s Kàt’a Kabanovà, Nardo in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera and Presto in Poulenc’s Les mamelles des Tirésias. He recently took part in The Pleasures of the Quarrel, a triple-bill of Mondonville’s Titon et l’Aurore, Orlandini’s Il Giocatore and Dauvergne’s Les Troquers at Cornell University, curated by long-time Cornell professor, Rebecca Warwick-Harris, and directed by Catherine Turocy of the New York Baroque Dance Company. As part of the Bernstein Centennial celebrations, he returned as a guest to the Tanglewood Music Center to sing Junior in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place, hailed as “hauntingly intense,” (Wall Street Journal) and “by turns willowy, boyish, flinty and frightening.” (Times Union) 

On the recital stage, Dominik made his Alice Tully Hall recital debut with collaborator Richard Fu in an all-Schubert program following his win of the Juilliard Honors Recital. Dominik was featured on BBC Radio 3 - In Tune in Drums and Guns, a staged recital commemorating the Irish uprising of 1916 curated by pianist Iain Burnside. He has sung selections from Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Juilliard Lab Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall and at the Tanglewood Music Center in an arrangement by Arnold Schoenberg. Other appearances at the Tanglewood Music Center have included Ravel’s Chanson madécasses, a premiere of Alan Smith’s The Other Side of the Door and a Centennial Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald with Dawn Upshaw, Stephanie Blythe, Lee Musiker and members of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Belavy was also featured on WQXR’s Midday Masterpieces broadcast singing Debussy’s Le promenoir des deux amants. He recently joined pianist Michael Barrett at the Rome Chamber Music Festival for a recital of American song and musical theatre at the historic Teatro Argentina. 

Belavy has maintained an active presence in the early music world, most recently making multiple appearances on the Bach Vespers series at Holy Trinity Lutheran. With Juilliard415, Dominik has sung the B Minor Mass under the baton of Ton Koopman in New York and on tour through the Netherlands, the latter of which was filmed live at Grote Kerk, Den Haag for broadcast on TV-NPO cultura and has been heard at the Boston Early Music Festival and the Leipzig Bach Festival. He has sung Bach cantatas with Masaki Suzuki, Joseph Gascho and John Harbison.

Dominik worked most closely with mentor Sanford Sylvan at the Tanglewood Music Center and The Juilliard School, where he received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music as a Toulmin Scholar. Dominik also participated in training programs and fellowships at The Schubert Institute, Ravinia’s Steans Institute of Music and Carnegie Hall’s Song Studio. Dominik is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.