Dr. Andrew Childs

Dr. Andrew Childs earned his Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of California, Irvine, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Washington and currently works as a freelance writer, lecturer, conductor and performer. He has taught for St. Mary’s College (Music History, Rhetoric and Communications, Opera History, Integrated Humanities), Missouri State University (Voice, Vocal Pedagogy, Opera History and Production, Gregorian Chant), the Thames Valley Music School at Connecticut College (Voice, Music Theory, Music History), the Yale University School of Drama (Music Literacy for Professional Stage Managers), and served as Managing Coordinator of the Department of Voice and Opera at the Yale School of Music. Dr. Childs led the schola at Christ the King Church (SSPX) in Ridgefield, Connecticut for six years, and was director of music (polyphonic choir and schola) at the Immaculata (SSPX) in Saint Marys, Kansas for seventeen years. He has conducted choral and Gregorian Chant Workshops throughout the country for SSPX chapels, and for the Benedictine communities of the Monasteries of St. Joseph and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Silver City, New Mexico.

As tenor soloist, his guest appearances include those with Seattle Symphony, the American Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Chorale, Society of Composers International (SCI), Yale Camerata, Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces, Springfield Symphony, Connecticut Master Chorale, Orchestra Seattle, Musica Vocale, and T e Deum Antiqua. He has studied the art song repertoire with Gwendolyn Koldovsky, Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, Ned Rorem, Elly Ameling, Dawn Upshaw, and Hakan Hagegard, and early music with specialists Jane Glover, Martin Haselböck, Heinz Holliger, Max van Egmond, and John Steele Ritter. He has sung more than one hundred performances of more than twenty operatic roles for, among others, Seattle Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Harrisburg Opera, The Center for Contemporary Opera, Amato Opera, Springfield Opera, and various new music workshops. Numerous premieres include works by Pulitzer Prize winner Yehudi Wyner. Dr. Childs has recorded for the Parma, Albany, Koch, and Centaur labels. About his Centaur recording The Songs of Charles Ives, the American Record Guide stated, “…there is no better recording by a tenor.”