Dr. Benjamin Czarnota

Dr. Benjamin Czarnota’s academic degrees include a Doctorate of Music in Vocal Literature, Master of Music in Vocal Performance, and Graduate Certificate in Vocology from Indiana University, and Bachelor of Music from Baldwin Wallace Conservatory. Benjamin is currently on the faculty of Heidelberg University, as well as the Baldwin Wallace Community Arts School. Czarnota was the Coordinator of Musical Theatre Voice at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and a voice faculty member at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music for over ten years. Students have performed leading roles on Broadway in the casts of American Psycho, Anastasia, Godspell, Hands on a Hard Body, Kinky Boots, Les Misérables, The Lightning Thief, Mean Girls, ONCE. Private studio members range from a Tony award-winning singing actress to a speaking actor in a one-person play portraying dozens of uniquely voiced characters across the full spectrum of gender, age, and origin. 

Benjamin originated the roles of Mr. Webb in the world premiere of Ned Rorem’s operatic setting of the iconic Thornton Wilder play Our Town and Otto Frank in Anne Frank. Other notable roles include Stanley Kowalski in Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Schaunard in La bohème, and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. Regional music theatre roles include the title role in Sweeney Todd, Marcus Lycus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Freddy in My Fair Lady, Father in Children of Eden and Emile de Beque in South Pacific. An avid Cleveland Browns fan, Czarnota was the National Anthem singer for all home games two years in a row and continues to perform at games when asked.