Richard Cox

American tenor Richard Cox has appeared as a soloist with many distinguished organizations, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Glimmerglass Festival, The Wexford Festival Opera, Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, and Oper Frankfurt. 

Mr. Cox serves on the voice faculty of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and the San Francisco Opera Center. He is the Executive Chair and Professor of Voice at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and previously served on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music Graduate Vocal Arts Program (VAP) and as the Vocal Consultant for the Detroit Opera Resident Artist Program. 

The recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, Richard Cox has earned grants from the George and Nora London Foundation for Singers, Sullivan Foundation, Opera Index Inc., the Olga Forrai Foundation, Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, and the Shoshana Foundation. He has been honored with a Lucrezia 

Bori Grant for foreign study, the Vocal Arts Honors Recital at Alice Tully Hall, and the Campbell Watcher Memorial Award for singers from Santa Fe Opera. 

Richard Cox holds degrees from Tennessee Technological University, Florida State University, and The Juilliard School.