Tenor Benjamin Truncale, from Malverne, NY, is a second-year student in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College Conservatory, pursuing his Master of Music degree. At Bard last season: Come Out of the Cold: A Winter Cabaret, and A Broadway Celebration with The Orchestra Now (TŌN), Kurtág Festival 2025 in March, Lyonel in scenes from Flotow’s Martha, and Fauré’s Shylock Suite with TŌN and Leon Botstein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May. In December, Benjamin was the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck, NY. Benjamin holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he sang Il Dottore Sinisgalli in Nino Rota’s I due timidi and Momo (cover) in Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo. Benjamin also sang the role of Nemorino in scenes from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in a Juilliard scenes program in May 2024. Benjamin was a 2025 Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellow, where he performed various concert and chamber works as well as Le Petit Vieillard in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges. In July 2024, Benjamin participated in a concert series in the Berkshires, MA with Classic Lyric Arts, where he sang Ferrando, Tito, and Belmonte in selected scenes and arias from Mozart’s Così fan tutte, La Clemenza di Tito, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Benjamin spent July 2022 and July 2023 working with tenor Francisco Araiza at the European Music Institute in Vienna, Austria. He studies with Lorraine Nubar.