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Dr. Melissa Malde, Mezzo-Soprano, 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 and the Cheyenne Symphony. She has sung abroad with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony, and has also performed in and around Munich. 

She holds a B.A. and a B.M. degree from Oberlin College and Conservatory, a M.M. from Northwestern University, and a D.M.A. from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.  She holds a Meisterklasses diploma from the Hochschule fur 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 first prize in Chicago’s Sudler Oratorio Competition, a Farwell Award, and the Brice-Gooter Award in the NATS Artist Award competition.

Melissa has studied the Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais, and was certified as an Andover Educator in March of 2003. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Luther College and is currently on the voice faculty of the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where she teaches Voice and Vocal Pedagogy.  She is also serves as President of theColorado/Wyoming chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.