NOAH MOND (Stony Brook, NY), is a 23-year-old bass vocalist and current second-year masters student at the Maryland Opera Studio at the University of Maryland, where he will soon play Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte)and Sir John Falstaff (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor). He received his Bachelor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance with a minor in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where he studied with Amy Jarman. His notable roles include the Vicar (Albert Herring) with the Maryland Opera Studio, Cadmus (Semele) at Vanderbilt University, Seneca (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) with the Trentino Music Festival, Marco (Gianni Schicchi) at the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory, and Masetto (Don Giovanni) at the Vienna Summer Music Festival. This summer he was a Frank R. Brownell III Apprentice Artist at the Des Moines Metro Opera and soon will play Manifesto in Orgullo at the Public Theater in NYC.  He has won numerous awards, including the Encouragement Award at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition DMV District, the Shirley Rabb Winston Vocal Scholarship, 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 last April with Jason Brauer’s La Muñeca Menor. 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 a student of Kevin Short.