Edward Parks
Baritone
New England First Place Winner, 2008
National Council Winner, 2008

Baritone, Edward Parks, 24, born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, completed his B.M at Oberlin Conservatory, and is currently finishing his M.M. at Yale University where he studies under Richard Cross.  While at Oberlin Edward sang the roles of Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Belcore in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore.  At The Yale School of Music Edward performed the roles of Marcello in La Bohème, Jupiter in Orphée au Enfers, and in February he will sing Gabriel von Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus.  In the summer of 2006 Edward attended the Music Academy of the West where he sang the role of Don Prudenzio in Il viaggio a Reims.  Edward’s awards include First Place at the Columbus International Vocal Competition XXIV, the Distinguished Achievement Award in 2006 by the Oberlin faculty, and the Dorothy S. Kish Prize, for the outstanding first year student of opera at Yale.  

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