Baritone Henry Griffin graduated in spring 2023 with his Bachelor’s in Classical Voice at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Marlena Malas, where he won the Hugh Ross Award for a “singer of unusual promise.” His recent roles include Germont in La Traviata at Opera in the Ozarks, Keeper of the Madhouse in The Rake’s Progress at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Castleton Festival, and The Forester in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at the Chautauqua Opera.

​In addition to his aspirations as a young baritone, Henry is an accomplished pianist, composer, and a budding conductor. As a pianist, he has given recitals as part of the Rush Hour & Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago and is continuing his piano studies at Eastman with Dongwon Shin. As a composer, Henry’s choral, instrumental, and vocal works have been performed by students and faculty alike of major music schools across the country including Eastman, Manhattan, Yale, and Roosevelt. Henry is thrilled to have just started his residency as the Robert P. Fountain endowed fellow for choral conducting at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Dr. William Weinert and additionally serves as chorusmaster and assistant conductor for Eastman Opera Theater.