Jesse Kliman

• 2025: Juilliard Summer Voice Intensive
• 2025: Schmidt Vocal Institute (accepted with merit scholarship)
• 2025: 2nd Place, NATS Mid-Atlantic Regionals, National Qualifier (Upper High School Classical, TBB Voices)
• 2025: Maryland Senior All-State Chorus, Bass 1, Featured Soloist
• 2025: Finalist, Schmidt Vocal Competition, Georgia Regionals
• 2025: CS Music All-State Singer Award
• 2024: 1st Place, NATS Maryland/DC Chapter (Upper High School Classical, TBB Voices)
• 2024: Washington National Opera Institute, The Kennedy Center
• 2024: National School Choral Award, DeMatha Catholic High School
• 2024, 2023: Winner, Young Composers Project, Maryland Music Educators Association (MMEA)
• 2024: Overall Vocal Soloist Award, Festivals of Music (Virginia Beach)
• 2024: Maryland Senior All-State Chorus, Bass 1
• 2023 - present: YAACompany, Young Artists of America
• 2023: Maryland Junior All-State Chorus, Tenor
• 2022 - present: Voices of DeMatha, DeMatha Catholic High School

Jesse Kliman, a baritone, has been passionate about classical music his entire life. A rising senior at DeMatha Catholic High School, he studies voice with Robert Cantrell. Though he has performed in musical theatre for over a decade, he began formal training in classical voice only in the last year. In that time, though, he placed 1st in the NATS MD/DC Competition, 2nd in the NATS Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition, and was named a finalist in Georgia's Schmidt Vocal Competition. Jesse is a member of Young Artists of America (YAA) at Strathmore, and his most notable show credits include Titanic (Barrett), Camelot (Arthur), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Clopin), and the youth premiere of Disney in Concert (Beast / Hercules). A 3-time selectee to the Maryland All-State Chorus, Jesse is also an accomplished pianist, cellist, and composer. His dream is to become a professional opera singer, and to work to make this enduring art form more vibrant and accessible to new audiences.