SoundScore Artist Profile
Andrew Garland has premiered works by Jake Heggie, William Bolcom, Steven Mark Kohn, Stephen Paulus, Eric Nathan, Herschel Garfein, Stella Sung, Edie Hill, Gerald Cohen, and many others, and has had pieces written for him by Lee Hoiby, Tom Cipullo, Thomas Pasatieri, and others. He has performed with Opera Philadelphia, Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Cincinnati Opera, New York City Opera, Arizona Opera, Opera Colorado, Boston Lyric Opera, and Boston Baroque.
Garland is widely recognized as a leader in recital work with dozens of performances around the country including Carnegie Hall with pianist Warren Jones and programs of modern American songs all over the Unites States, in Canada and Europe and Asia. Jones, Marilyn Horne, Steven Blier, a number of American composers, and several major music publications all endorse him as a highly communicative singer leading the way for the song recital into the 21st Century.
He brings his highly communicative style to the concert stage with orchestras including the Atlanta Symphony, Boston Baroque, The Handel and Haydn Society, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Boston Youth Symphony, National Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, Albany Symphony, Washington Master Chorale at the Kennedy Center and National Chorale at Lincoln Center. He has collaborated with the Takács, Dover, Amernet, and Daedalus quartets.
Garland is a regular with the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) and has given multiple recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Ravinia festival as well as Vocal Arts DC, Marilyn Horne Foundation, The Bard Festival, Camerata Pacifica, Andre-Turp Society in Montreal, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelitsa, Venice, Nomikos Foundation, Santorini, Greece, Fort Revelin, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Voce at Pace, Camerata Pacifica, Huntsville Chamber Music Guild, Fort Worth Opera, Seattle Opera, Fanfare in Hammond, LA, Cincinnati Matinee Musicale, Cincinnati Song Initiative, Tuesday Morning Music Club, Coastal Concerts, and dozens of college music series around the country.
His latest solo CD American Portraits (with Donna Loewy, piano) went to Number 1 on Amazon classical. Garland has five other recordings on the Telarc, Naxos, Roven Records and Azica Labels.
Andrew is an Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Colorado, Boulder College of Music.