Resident Artists

Benjamin Dickerson · baritone

AVA Fourth-year Resident Artist

Hometown

Burlington, Vermont

Education

BM from Manhattan School of Music

Competitions

Mozart Award, Orpheus Vocal Competition (2020); Audience Choice Prize, Houston Saengerbund Awards (2020); 1st Prize, Ades Vocal Competition (2017); Winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition (2015)

Previous Roles

Albert, Werther; Mr. Kahlo/Mr. Rockefeller, Frida; Schaunard, La boheme; 1st Soldier, Salome; Enrico (cover), Lucia di Lammermoor all at Florida Grand Opera; Count Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro, Music Academy of the West; Bill, The Grapes of Wrath, Wigmaker, Ariadne auf Naxos, all at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Valmont, The Dangerous Liaisons; Title role, Don Giovanni, both at Manhattan School of Music

Roles at AVA