Baritone Andrew Garland is hailed as a performer whose artistry is a perfect combination between “baritone of strength and vocal opulence” (Opera News) and “cosmic energy and suavity” (Opera News). He 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 United States and in Canada. Jones, Marilyn Horne, Steven Blier, many American composers, and major music publications all endorse him as a highly communicative singer leading the way for the song recital through the 21st Century.
He brings his highly communicative style to the concert stage with orchestras including the Boston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Boston Baroque, The Handel and Haydn Society, Nashville Symphony, Brevard Festival, Emmanuel Music, Boston Youth Symphony, National Philharmonic, Albany Symphony, Houston Symphony, UMS Ann Arbor, Washington Master Chorale at the Kennedy Center and National Chorale at Lincoln Center.
Garland has been 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, the Moab Music Festival, Andre-Turp Society in Montreal, Voce at Pace, Huntsville Chamber Music Guild, Fort Worth Opera, Seattle Opera, Fanfare in Hammond, LA, Cincinnati Matinee Musicale, Cincinnati Song Initiative, Tuesday Morning Music Club and dozens of college music series around the country. In 2014, he was the featured recitalist for the NATS National convention where that organization’s president declared him “the next Thomas Hampson.” (Mr. Garland prefers to think of himself as “the first Andrew Garland.”)
In addition to numerous song and concert premieres, Garland has created operatic roles in the world premieres of Dinner at Eight – William Bolcom/Mark Campbell – Minnesota Opera, Steal a Pencil For Me – Gerald Cohen/Deborah Brevoort – Opera Colorado, The Book Collector – Stella Sung/Ernest Herbert – Dayton Opera, and Artemisia – Laura Schwendinger/Ginger Strand – Prototype Festival. He has also sung with Opera Philadelphia, New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, among others.
His latest CD recorded at CU with Jeremy Reger El Rebelde: Gabriela Frank | Dmitri Shostakovich has received rave reviews from the BBC, Opera News, Voix des Arts, San Francisco Classical Voice, Earrelevant, and many other music publications. His previous solo CD American Portraits (with Donna Loewy, piano) went to Number 1 on Amazon Classical. Garland has six other recordings on the Telarc, Naxos, Roven Records, and Azica labels.
Chamber music appearances have included the Ravinia Festival, Camerata Pacifica, Maverick Concerts, Huntsville Chamber Music Society, and he has sung with the Takács, Dover, Calder, Amernet, and Daedalus string quartets.
Garland is the winner of the Lavinia Jensen, NATSAA, Washington International, American Traditions, NATS and Opera Columbus Competition and was a prize winner in the Montreal International, Jose Iturbi, Gerda Lissner, McCammon, and Palm Beach International Competitions. He was an apprentice at the San Francisco Opera Center and the Seattle Opera and Cincinnati Opera Young Artists programs.
An avid cyclist, Andy has ridden the Pan Mass Challenge for 34 years.
Garland is a mentor with Bel Canto Boot Camp, on tonebase.com, at La Musica Lirica program in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, has guest taught at The Juilliard School, CCM, Yale, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, New England Conservatory, Boston University, Longy School of Music of Bard College, The Cleveland Art Song Festival, The Seagle Colony, Harvard, Princeton, Brown, and is an Associate Professor of Voice at The University of Colorado, Boulder.