NOAH MOND (Stony Brook, NY) is a 23 year-old bass and recent Master of Music graduate of the Maryland Opera Studio at the University of Maryland, where he studied with Kevin Short. 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. He has been seen at many prominent music festivals and opera companies, most recently at Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera Baltimore, Castleton Festival, and Chautauqua Opera Conservatory. This past year he won the Encouragement Award at the Opera Index Vocal Competition and the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and as well as first place in the Shirley Rabb Winston Classical Voice Scholarship. This next year he looks forward to making his Feinstein’s 54 Below debut with Christian De Gré Cárdenas’ Orgullo, after performing the role off-Broadway at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater last year. He then will join the Washington National Opera chorus for Aida before heading to Nashville Opera as a Mary Ragland Emerging Artist.