Judith Malafronte is an American mezzo-soprano currently on the faculty at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
For 15 years she taught courses at Yale University in literature and opera.
[1] She is the winner of several top awards in Italy, Spain, Belgium and the US, including the Grand Prize at the International Vocal Competition 's-Hertogenbosch, Holland in 1983.
Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Fontainebleau, and with Giulietta Simionato in Milan as a Fulbright scholar.
She has recorded for major labels in a broad range of repertoire, from medieval chant to contemporary music and her writings have appeared in Opera News, Stagebill, Islands, Early Music America Magazine, Schwann Inside and Opus.