Cole Denton is a Graduate Assistant of Voice Pedagogy & Performance and Musicology at Penn State. He is a graduate of the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam where he earned a BM in Vocal Performance and Music Education. In the past he has worked with Chazy Musical Theatre Company, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and Crane Opera Ensemble; performing roles in the various plays and musicals; as well as Jay Styx in Offenbach’s: Orpheus in the Underworld, Mrs. Nolan in Menotti’s: The Medium, and the Spirit in Purcell’s: Dido & Aeneas. Cole has also been the boy soprano soloist for Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Plattsburgh State University Orchestra. His continued love for music includes the genre of opera and studying its long history. “I hope to work with new creative voices like we have in this project to help inform my artistry and the art of others; forging ahead as we continue to be creative in the tumultuous times we live in.