Melissa Malde

Mezzo-Soprano Melissa Malde has performed with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States, including Kentucky Opera, the Bangor Symphony and Opera Colorado. She has sung abroad with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony, the Bad Reichenhall Orchestra, Opera Classica Europa and Vancouver Opera. Melissa holds undergraduate degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory, master’s degrees from Northwestern University and the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, where she studied under the auspices of a Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) grant, and a doctorate from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. While in Munich, she won first prize in the Kulturforum Competition. Other honors include winning Cincinnati Conservatory's Concerto Contest and Chicago's Sudler Oratorio Competition, a Farwell Award and the Brice-Gooter Award from the NATSAA competition. She is a co-author of What Every Singer Needs to Know about the Body and is an active clinician. Offstage, she enjoys working in her organic garden, cycling, hiking and reading.