Noah Mond is a 21-year-old bass vocalist from Stony Brook, New York. He graduated this past May with a Bachelor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance with a minor in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where he studied with Amy Jarman. This fall he will begin his studies for a Masters in Opera Performance at the University of Maryland Opera Studio studying with Kevin Short. Some of his notable roles include Guglielmo (Cosi Fan Tutte) and Superintendent Budd (Albert Herring) at the Vanderbilt Opera Theatre, Seneca (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) at the Trentino Music Festival, and Masetto (Don Giovanni) at the Vienna Summer Music Festival. He has won numerous awards, including the Orpheus Vocal Competition Encouragement Award and 4th Place winner in the Neapolitan Masters Competition Promises category. As a jazz singer he has performed with Michael Feinstein at the Great American Songbook Academy. As a lover of new music, Noah has worked on numerous contemporary works, including multiple world premiere operas, and even made his operatic directorial debut this past April. His performance of Juliana Hall’s AHAB, a monodrama was deemed “Stellar singing and such wonderful dramatic portrayal of the character” by the composer herself.
Noah is the recipient of The John and Mary Lou Kookogey Scholarship.