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Melissa Malde
 Associate Professor of Music
Voice, Mezzo-Soprano
Frasier 154
970.351.2051
melissa.malde@unco.edu
Melissa Malde has performed with numerous organizations throughout the United States, including Opera Colorado, Kentucky Opera, Ohio Light Opera, the Bangor Symphony, the Cedar Rapids Symphony, Dorian Opera Theatre, the Cheyenne Symphony, the Colorado Music Festival and Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre. She has sung abroad with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, with the Prague Radio Symphony, and has also performed in Munich, Bad Reichenhall, and Wolfrathshausen in Germany.
Dr. Malde holds degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory, Northwestern University, the University of Cincinnati, and the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, where she studied under the auspices of a German Academic Exchange grant. While in Munich, she won first prize in the Kulturforum Competition. Other honors include winning Cincinnati Conservatory's Concerto Contest, first prize in Chicago's Sudler Oratorio Competition, a Farwell Award, and the Brice-Gooter Award in the Artist Award competition of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. She has studied the Alexander Technique and is certified as an Andover Educator to teach workshops in Body Mapping.
Throughout her teaching career, Dr. Malde has directed many opera and musical theatre productions, taught vocal literature and diction and currently specializes in vocal pedagogy. She held positions at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Luther College before moving back to her home state of Colorado—where, in addition to serving on the faculty of the University on Northern Colorado, she is the Auditions Chair for the West Central Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
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