Maren Montalbano began her choral career with the San Francisco Girls Chorus at age seven, and has been singing ever since. Maren is a graduate of New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University, where she received two bachelor’s degrees in vocal performance and drama, respectively. Since graduating, Ms. Montalbano has performed up and down the East Coast, from Boston to Virginia. In 2002, she sang in the historic world premiere of John Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning work, On the Transmigration of Souls, which was later released into a Grammy Award-winning CD. She recorded Douglas Cuomo’s opera Arjuna’s Dilemma with Anonymous 4 members Susan Hellauer and Jacqueline Horner, which was released in 2008 to critical acclaim.  Other commercial recordings include Alice Parker’s Listen Lord and The Family Reunion, as well as Kile Smith’s Vespers. In the spring of 2009, her solo in Copland’s In The Beginning was praised as “excellent” by the Philadelphia Inquirer. In the 2009-10 season, Ms. Montalbano performed the role of Testo in Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, made her Opera Company of Philadelphia debut as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, performed Haydn’s Theresienmesse with the Drexel Symphony Orchestra, and gave the world premiere of Jeremy Gill’s song cycle Helian in her Philadelphia recital debut. Ms. Montalbano lives in New Jersey and sings professionally throughout a wide geographic area with such groups as New York Choral Artists, Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Singers, and The Crossing. She currently studies voice with Julianne Baird.