Benjamin Dickerson ’24 · baritone

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

• Farewell Recital
• Il barbiere di Siviglia · Figaro
• The Rape of Lucretia · Tarquinius
• Winter Recital 
• Giargiari Bel Canto Competition
• Don Giovanni · Don Giovanni
• Jubilate! A Concert of Sacred Music
• La traviata · Giorgio Germont
• La bohème · Schaunard
• Eugene Onegin · Onegin
• Verlaine, Le Voyage Humain - French Recital · Verlaine
• Jubilate! A Concert of Sacred Music
• Russian Romances
• New Artists Recital