To contact Mr. Noorigian Colby, please email him at brettcolby@aol.com

ArtsCAP President Brett Noorigian Colby settled in Asbury Park in 2004.  As an opera singer, Brett continues to travel the U.S. and Europe singing the character tenor repertory.  As an Asbury Park resident (and New Jersey native), Brett's current projects are renovating his home and helping to give our city's artistic community the prominence it deserves. 

Operatic engagements from recent seasons include Goro (Madama Butterfly) with Virginia Opera, Anchorage Opera, Opera Illinois, Midland Symphony, Metro Lyric Opera, and Cedar Rapids Opera; The Four Servants (The Tales of Hoffman) with Theatre Goerlitz and Theatre Zittau (Germany); Beppe (I Pagliacci) and Gherardo (Gianni Schicci) with Opera Delaware; Spoletta (Tosca) and Dr. Blind (Die Fledermaus) with Opera Illinois; Camille (The Merry Widow) with Rimrock Opera; El Remendado (Carmen) with Mobile Opera; Bardolfo (Falstaff), Little Bat (Susannah), and Basilio/Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Cedar Rapids Opera; Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors) with North Arkansas Symphony; and Piquillo (La Périchole) with West Bay Opera.  As an Apprentice Artist at both Utah Festival Opera and Sarasota Opera, Brett had featured roles as Little Bat McLean (Susannah), Professor (South Pacific), Florenze (Naughty Marietta), and Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos).

Equally at home on musical theatre stages, Brett has starred in and recorded albums for two original musicals in New York: Vivianna (a re-telling of La Traviata) and My Heinous Life, for which NYC papers said, “Brett’s commanding tenor voice and sure stage presence kept the nonsense moving briskly”, and was dubbed “sweet candy”. Other musical theatre roles to his credit are Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, a modernized version of The Pirates of Penzance at NYC's South Street Seaport, and two summers in Elmira, NY and Hartford, CT, portraying Young Mark Twain in Mark Twain: The Musical. He has been featured in the independent comedy film The War on the War on Drugs, and been heard frequently on Power 105.1 FM's Dr. Dre in the Morning show, singing operatic renditions of popular Rap songs in a segment called "Hip-Hopera".