Dr. Jack Delmore, lyric tenor, has an extensive background in all areas of vocal performance. He holds a Masters degree in Voice Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is currently an associate professor of Music and Music Theater at Mesa State College.

Dr. Delmore has performed such diverse chamber works as Britten´s Canticles and Winter Words, Schumann´s Dichterliebe, Faure´s La Bonne Chanson, and Poulenc´s Telle Jour Telle Nuit. He has also studied and performed the Russian repertoire of The Mighty Five, as well as more obscure early 20th century American art songs.

As an associate professor of two very active areas at Mesa State, Dr. Delmore directs many musicals, operettas, and, as of late, operas. Among those he has directed are The Pirates of Penzance, My Fair Lady, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, She Loves Me, Guys & Dolls, The Mikado, No, No, Nanette, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Dr. Delmore also produced the first one-act operas performed at Mesa State in full production, Dido and Aeneas. Next spring he will direct Pasatieri´s riotous Signor Deluso. Recently, he sang the premier of the chamber opera In the Shadow of the Glen by the acclaimed American composer, Nancy Van de Vate, at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Delmore has been a frequent soloist with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra and the Western Colorado Chorale. He has performed numerous works with these organizations, including Verdi´s Requiem, Orff´s Carmina Burana, and Haydn´s Creation.