Cole Grissom is a Texas native who recently graduated from the
New England Conservatory of Music where he studied under
Metropolitan Opera soprano Ms. Patricia Craig. While at the
Conservatory Mr. Grissom performed numerous roles in the Graduate
and Undergraduate Opera programs including; The Manager in
Pasatieri's La Divina, Dr. Neville Craven in Secret
Garden, The Representative in A Game of Chance, The Lord Chancellor
in Iolanthe, Bartley in Riders to the Sea, the Baritone soloist in
The Saga of Jenny: a Kurt Weill Review, Betto in Gianni Schicchi,
and Papageno in The Magic Flute. Other roles include the Marquis in
La Traviata, Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, Pistola in Falstaff,
Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Melchior in Amahl and the Night
Visitors, Marcello in La Boheme, and the title roles in Tartuffe
and Le Nozze di Figaro. During his time at the Conservatory Mr.
Grissom received additional training at the A.I.M.S. program in
Graz, Austria where he studied under Cuban Bass Gustavo Halley and
spent two summers with the B.A.S.O.T.I. program in the San
Francisco bay area. He recently appeared with the Redwood Symphony
Orchestra as their annual concerto competition winner singing a set
of arias by American composers, and also appeared as the Baritone
Soloist in Henry Mollicone's Beatitude Mass. Upcoming
engagements include Maximilian in Candide, Guglielmo in Cosi fan
tutte, Mephestopholes in Faust, and the title role in Don Giovanni.
He currently studies under the tutelage of Mezzo- Soprano Catherine
Cook and coaches with Marcie Stapp.
