Benjamin Park, bass, earned a Bachelor of Arts in music with honors in 2002 from the University of California, Berkeley, where he won the Eisner Prize in Music for Voice and was awarded a University of California Regents Full Scholarship. He continued studying at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien, followed by graduate work at the Peabody Institute where he earned a Master of Music in 2005 and a Graduate Performance Diploma in Opera in 2006. While at Peabody, Park earned the George Woodhead Prize for voice and a Peabody Merit Scholarship. He frequently performed with the Peabody Opera, including the title role in its production of “Falstaff.” Park received his Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Maryland in 2016.

Park’s teachers have included John Shirley-Quirk, Sebastian Vittucci and David Gordon. He has worked with many notable musicians including Kent Nagano, Max van Egmond and Alan Curtis, and has performed as soloist with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, and Cathedra. He was a core member of the Choir of Men and Boys at the Washington National Cathedral for 14 years, and currently sings with the Air Force Band Singing Sergeants.