Nmon Ford
Panamanian-American baritone Nmon Ford has performed throughout the Americas, Europe and Japan, most recently with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Haydn’s Creation. Having begun his musical training in piano at age three, he has since appeared with San Francisco Opera, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., Los Angeles Opera, Utah Opera, Portland Opera, Opera Memphis, Syracuse Opera, Virginia Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Madison Opera and Opera San Jose in roles including Don Giovanni, Escamillo (Carmen), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Marcello (La boheme), Valentin (Faust), Arsamene (Xerxes) and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas). Other roles include Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), and Riccardo (I puritani).
In the 2003-2004 season Mr. Ford sings Mahmoud in Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer with the Brooklyn Philharmonic under Robert Spano at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Mahler’s Rückertlieder and Fauré’s Requiem with the Santa Barbara Symphony under Gisele Ben-Dor, L’Enfant du Sortilege with the National Symphony, a recital for the Marilyn Horne Foundation with the Huntsville Chamber Music Guild in Alabama, and a recital at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Mr. Ford made his New York recital debut with the Marilyn Horne Foundation’s “On Wings of Song” Series at the Kosciuszko Foundation; under the Foundation’s auspices he has also fulfilled artist’s residencies with the New Jersey Symphony and the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Mr. Ford has recorded for Koch International Classics (Villa Lobos’ “Amerindia” Symphony #10) and Three Things Records (The Sweetest Brilliance — Songs of Bolcom and Weinstein).