Colin Aikins, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a tenor studying in the voice program at the Curtis Institute of Music with Julia Faulkner of the Chicago Lyric Opera. Credits include: Trouble in Tahiti (Trio), Sweeney Todd (The Beadle), Don Giovanni (Chorus), The Barber of Seville (Almaviva –cover), The Barber of Seville (Count Almaviva - cover & chorus), Albert Herring (Mr. Upfold), and La clemenza di Tito (Chorus) for the Curtis Opera Theater. He performed Falstaff (Fenton) and Le nozze di Figaro (Chorus) for the Aspen Opera Center and scenes from Falstaff (Fenton). Colin achieved First Place in the 2015 Schmidt Vocal Competition at the National Opera Center in New York City. He was the winner of 2016 Pittsburgh Concert Society Young Artist Competition. Colin was a 2017 Classical Singer Vocal Competition National First Place winner where he also received a full scholarship from the University of Miami Frost School of Music to attend the prestigious Salzburg Festival in Austria in 2018. He performed at Carnegie Hall in NYC as winner of the 2017 American Protégé International Voice Competition and was named a 2018 Vocal Finalist in the National Young Arts Competition performing in Miami’s New World Symphony Center in January 2018.  He was 1 of 8 classical singers attending National Young Arts week and the only tenor, representing the Top 2% of the most exceptional young artists of our time.  As a 2018 NPR From the Top Winner, he performed at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas.  He has attended the Aspen Music Festival, the Frost School of Music Salzburg Program, the Chautauqua Institution Voice Program and the Curtis Young Artist Voice Program.