Nmon Ford
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Nmon Ford is a Panamanian-American born two-time Grammy award winning baritone noted primarily for his numerous appearances in opera houses around the world.
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[edit] Education
He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Southern California where he graduated cum laude, and was named Outstanding Vocal Arts Graduate, for both degrees.[1]
[edit] Appearances and roles
Having begun musical training at the age of three, Nmon has gone on to perform in many venues with many organizations including the Hamburg Opera, San Francisco Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, Los Angeles Opera, Utah Opera, Portland Opera, Opera Memphis, Virginia Opera, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City
His roles have included:
- Iago (Otello)
- Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde)
- Scarpia (Tosca)
- Amfortas (Parsifal)
- Amonasro (Aïda)
- Germont (La Traviata)
- Escamillo (Carmen)
- Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
- High Priest (Samson et Dalila)
- Posa (Don Carlo)
- Jochanaan (Salome)
- Telramund (Lohengrin).[1]
[edit] Discography
[edit] "Songs of Innocence and of Experience"
- (Winner of three 2006 Grammy awards)
- Music by William Bolcom
- Text by William Blake
- Conducted by Leonard Slatkin
- University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra
- University Musical Society
- Naxos Records
[edit] Symphony #10, "Amerindia"
- Music by Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Conducted by Gisèle Ben-Dor
- Santa Barbara Symphony
- Various Choirs
- Koch International Classics Records
[edit] "The Sweetest Brilliance - Songs of Bolcom and Weinstein"
- Music by William Bolcom
- Poems by Arnold Weinstein
- Victoria Kirsch, piano
- Three Things Records
[edit] References
- ^ a b Biography, Official Site of Nmon Ford. Retrieved on October 19, 2007.

