Ethan Herschenfeld (King Zuoxian, Bass), a native New Yorker and student of Armen Boyajian, won First Prize in last year's Sembrich Voice Competition at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, singing arias and songs by Moniuszko, Moore, and Mozart. He went on to win First Prize for American singers in the Moniuszko Competition in Warsaw. His first professional engagement took him to Sweden and Norway on a tour of Die Zauberflöte in the role of Sarastro and he has since sung over twenty roles in the U.S. and Europe including Osmin, Sparafucile, Ramphis, Tsar Dodon (Le Coq d'Or), and Frank Maurrant (Street Scene). He recently had his Avery Fisher Hall debut singing Gremin's Aria and La Calunnia with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and premiered a song for cello and bass voice with Lynn Harrell in the Peoples' Symphony Concerts in New York. Later this year he will sing the Police Commissioner and Notary in Der Rosenkavalier with Florentine Opera in Milwaukee, Zuniga in Carmen with Mobile Opera, and Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd with Toledo Opera.