Commissioner + Registrar: Benjamin Ruiz Ruiz

Award-winning tenor, Benjamin Ruiz, is an international singer who has performed with Opera San José, The Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Mittelsächsisches Theatre. Recent performance credits include; Alfredo in La traviata, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, Tybalt in Romeo et Juliette, and Beppe in Pagliacci. He has won and received awards in many prestigious competitions, including the Duncan Williams Voice Competition, The Metropolitan Opera's Laffont Competition, and the Alan and Joan Taub Ades Competition. Ruiz received his Masters at Manhattan School of Music, where he was the recipient of the Edgar Foster Daniels Scholarship.