 Andrew White, baritone (Associate Professor) holds the 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 has served on the voice faculties of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of Akron, Hiram College, and Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory. A champion of Art Songs, Andrew White has distinguished himself in recitals of Melodies, Lieder, and Contemporary American Art Song, including several premiere performances. 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 solucky with collaborators."
Opera and concert appearances include numerous roles with Lyric Opera Cleveland, and as soloist with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra. Andrew White has participated 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 Prizewinner of the 1995 Richardson Awards Vocal Competition. While he was a graduate student, Andrew White was granted a full scholarship to study in Switzerland with Gerard Souzay and Dalton Baldwin. As an academic, his paper, "Towards an Understanding of Wagnerian Music-Drama" was published in Music Research Forum (1999). His ongoing studies of vocal pedagogy are numerous and varied and include the Oberlin Summer Institute with Richard Miller, the McClosky Institute of Voice, and the LoVetri Method of Musical Theatre Pedagogy.
 email: whitear1@unk.edu
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