Dr. Andrew White

He/Him/His

Professor of Music, Voice

Office: FAB 252   |    Phone: (308) 865-8311   |    Email: whitear1@unk.edu

Dr. Andrew White

Biography

Andrew White, baritone, holds a B.M. and M.M. from The Cleveland Institute of Music/Case Western Reserve University, as well as an Artist Diploma and the D.M.A. Previously, he served on the voice faculties of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of Akron, Hiram College, Lake Erie College, Ashland University, and Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory. A champion of Art Song and contemporary music, Andrew White has distinguished himself in recitals of French mélodie, Lieder, and contemporary American art song, including numerous premiere performances. He was selected to participate in the Cleveland Art Song Festival six times, appearing as a featured artist on the 1996 festival. He won the VARN competition in 1997 and was First Prize winner of the 1995 Richardson Awards Vocal Competition. While he was a student, Andrew White was granted a full scholarship to study in Switzerland with Gerard Souzay and Dalton Baldwin. In 1995, he made his New York recital debut in Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in a program devoted to the songs of Cleveland composer Frederick Koch. One review hailed him as "... a formidable interpreter ... Every song composer should be so lucky with collaborators." He has performed new works in concerts and on festivals in such cities as Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco, San Antonio, Montreal, Vancouver, Chicago, and New York

Opera and concert appearances include numerous roles with Lyric Opera Cleveland, The Oxford Shakespeare Festival, and as soloist with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony, Wooster Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom. Operatic appearances include Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Endymion in Calisto, and Claudio in Beatrice and Benedict. Gilbert and Sullivan roles include Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Pooh-bah in The Mikado, Grosvenor in Patience, and Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe. Roles in musicals include Herold Hill in The Music Man, Billy Bigalow in Carousel, and Emile de Becque in South Pacific. Roles in the legitimate theatre include Ben in The Dumb Waiter, Meyers in Witness for the Prosecution, and Cymbeline in Cymbeline.

His ongoing studies of vocal pedagogy are numerous and varied, including the Oberlin Summer Institute with Richard Miller, the McClosky Institute of Voice, and Webster University’s Vocal Pedagogy Workshop with featured clinician Scott McCoy. He also holds a level III Certification in Somatic Voiceworktm: the LoVetri Method of CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) Vocal Pedagogy. 

Published articles: 

“Vocal Traditions: Somatic Voicework™ The Lovetri Method.” Voice and Speech Review 11/2 (2017): 240-248.

“Do Men Belt?” Classical Singer, November (2016): 38-43.

“Belting as an Academic Discipline.” American Music Teacher: The Official Journal of Music Teachers National Association (June/July 2011): 22-24.

“Towards an Understanding of Wagnerian Music-Drama.” Music Research Forum XIV (1999): 27-58.

D.M.A. Documents: 

 "Schumann's Op. 24 Liederkreis." The Cleveland Institute of Music/Case Western Reserve University, 2002.

 "The Baudelaire Settings of Henri Duparc." The Cleveland Institute of Music/Case Western Reserve University, 2002.