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About Andrew Garland
During the 2009–2010 season, Garland can be heard as the title role in Don Giovanni with Opera New Jersey, Dancairo in Carmen with Boston Lyric Opera, and Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Knoxville Opera. Concert engagements during the season include Carmina Burana with the Quad Cities Symphony, Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem with the Plymouth Philharmonic, and recitals in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Montreal, among others. Of important note is his recently released recording, On the Other Shore, a disc of folk songs setting by Steven Mark Kohn on the Azica label. The disc has been praised for his "virile, luxuriantly warm and beautiful" baritone and for his "positive, confident attitude with a vibrant personality, subtle and boisterous as needed, that makes each song into a mini-drama or comic scene." (American Record Guide) 2009 also saw the release of his disc of songs by Lee Hoiby entitled A Pocket of Time on the Naxos Label. Recent highlights on the opera stage include Hermann in Les contes d'Hoffman, The Gamekeeper in Rusalka, and Schaunard in La Bohème all with Boston Lyric Opera. He stepped in with one day's notice as Dandini in La Cenerentola with Opera Company of Philadelphia, and also has sung the role with the Fort Worth Opera and Opera Company of North America. He made his debut with the Seattle Opera when he stepped in at the last minute for Nathan Gunn as Riolobo in Catàn's Florencia en el Amazonas, and returns to the prestigious company in 2013 to sing Schaunard and in 2015 for Harlekin in their production of Ariadne auf Naxos. He has sung Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with both Dayton Opera and Bob Jones University, and the role of Giuseppe in The Gondoliers with the Utah Symphony and Opera. On the concert stage Garland has sung Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the National Philharmonic, Carmina Burana with the Dayton Philharmonic and the Delaware Symphony, Handel's Messiah with the Tucson Symphony, University of Michigan's University Musical Society and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, selections from Kiss Me Kate with the Atlanta Symphony, Mozart's C Minor Mass with the Washington Master Chorale at the Kennedy Center, Brahms' Requiem with the University of Massachusetts, the World Premiere of Jonathan Sheffer's Red Couch Floating on Lake Erie with Red {an orchestra}, Handel's Samson with the Dartmouth Handel Society, and Meyerbeer's Les Hugenots with the Bard Festival. Throughout his professional career Garland has focused on offering lively and inventive recital programs comprised of music by living American composers. This project has taken him to stages across the United States, including New York City, Washington DC, Seattle, Cincinnati, Madison, and Santa Monica, among others. His dedication and commitment to highlighting classical songs in recital has brought him great critical acclaim, including: "Garland's instrument is flexible, supple, light of timbre, and agreeable, the singing never less than polished. But his trump card is communication: he sang with a clarity to render printed texts mostly superfluous, and the range of expression, from sharply honed comedy to solemn introspection, from dramatic outburst to tender lyricism was limitless yet free of self-consciousness, of artifice. The fine art of poetry in music has found a rare ambassador." (Opera Now) Garland is the winner of the Washington International Music Competition, American Traditions Competition, the William C. Byrd Competition, the Opera Columbus Competition, NATS New England competition and was a prize winner in the Jose Itrubi and Gerda Lissner and Palm Beach Opera competitions. In 2009 he took third prize in the Montreal International Music Competition. Garland is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His teachers and coaches have included William McGraw, Paulina Stark, John Humphrey, Oren Brown, Elizabeth Mannion, Martin Katz, Donna Loewy, Kenneth Griffiths and Terry Lusk. |
Saluted by The New York Times for having a "distinctively American presence" baritone Andrew Garland is known for his engaging performances, and particularly for his interpretations on the recital stage. His recent recital debut at Carnegie Hall, where he debuted several works by living American composers, was praised for his "grace, fervor and intelligence" (Seen And Heard International) and for his "lean, fine-grained, vibrant baritone." (Opera News Online)