Vincent Grana (Bass) is based in Los Angeles, CA. He has received his B. M. Magna Cum Laude in Music Education and an M.M. in Vocal Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. At Rutgers, Mr. Grana has received many awards for academic and performing achievements including the Presser Foundation award and the Michael Fardink Memorial Award. He has also performed with the Castleton Festival under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel covering such roles as Benoît and Alcindoro (La bohème), Simone (Gianni Schicchi), and Escamillo in a concert performance of Carmen. Mr. Grana has performed in the Crested Butte Music Festival’s production of L’elisir d’amore (Dulcamara) and has worked with eminent artists such as Samuel Ramey. In 2013, Mr. Grana was named a Philadelphia District winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Mr. Grana has also sung with Sarasota Opera as one of their apprentice artists for the final season of the Verdi Cycle. Mr. Grana received an encouragement award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the Los Angeles District. He also that same year was a grant recipient of the Opera Buffs in Southern California. Mr. Grana recently debuted at Dayton Opera performing the role of Zuniga in their production of Bizet’s Carmen. This past summer, he performed the role of Simone in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance program. Mr. Grana was invited back to Dayton in the fall of 2017 to sing a concert of Bach’s Cantata 80 and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. His 2018 engagements include performing the role of Noye in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, and the officer in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Santa Barbara. In the coming summer, Mr. Grana will perform the role of Doctor Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Aspen Opera Center as a Fellowship artist.