Naomi Gurt Lind, soprano & actor

Naomi Gurt Lind is a singer-actor of uncommon electricity, intelligence and adventurousness who enjoys a varied career in the realms of musical theatre, classical singing, drama, and new music.

In recent seasons, Naomi Gurt Lind has been an increasingly prominent presence on the Boston-area theatre scene. She has appeared in musicals with the New Repertory Theatre (Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods), Overture Productions (On the Twentieth Century), and in the SpeakEasy Stage & Sugan Theatre Companies' joint production of A Man of No Importance. As an actor, she has worked with Industrial Theatre, Zeitgeist Stage, Hovey Players, LynnArts, and ACME Theatre.

Naomi Gurt Lind is devoted to new works and has participated in several readings, with NOMTI, Playwrights' Platform and others. She has sung at the White House and on the Balls Experimental Cabaret at the Southern Theatre in Minneapolis. In 2002, she was a member of the Composer-Librettist Studio at New Dramatists in New York, where she participated in the creation and premieres of several new works of music theatre. Her relationship with Nautilus Music-Theater spans several years, and she was recently featured on their Rough Cuts series. Also an ardent baseball fan, she performed at Reggie Jackson's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame and recently sang the National Anthem for the Cleveland Indians at Jacob's Field.

Naomi Gurt Lind's classical repertoire stretches from Bach to Babbitt and beyond. Several composers have written expressly for her, and her work in the new music field has included commissioning and premiering numerous pieces. She has worked with composers such as Milton Babbitt, Yehudi Wyner, Michael Gandolfi, Jo Kondo, Lori Laitman, and Howard Frazin. In addition, she has been coached by such new music luminaries as Paul Zukofsky, Marc Ponthus, and Martin Goldray. Equally at home in the traditional repertoire, Naomi Gurt Lind has sung the roles of Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Papagena in The Magic Flute, The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors and Lucy in The Telephone in addition to oratorio solos in works by Bach, Mozart, Rutter, Vivaldi, and Haydn.

Naomi Gurt Lind has appeared at Merkin Hall, the Aspen Music Festival,and in the Aldeburgh October Britten Festival. She has had solo appearances with several prominent Boston ensembles, including the Cantata Singers, Auros, Chorus pro Musica, Masterworks Chorale, and Fine Arts Chorale. In New York, she has appeared with Festival Chamber Music Society, Musical Observations, Composers Concordance, and as a guest artist on a 20th century concert at the Third Street Music Settlement.

Naomi Gurt Lind was educated at University of Michigan and The Cleveland Institute of Music. She has received additional training at The Britten-Pears School, Aspen, New Repertory Theatre, Celebration Barn, Nautilus Music Theatre Institute (with Wesley Balk), Southwick Studios, and The Seagle Colony.