A Long Way From Home: A Virtual Music from Home Concert

Andrew Turner, Tenor
Andrew Turner is a native of Tacoma, WA and was recently seen performing the role of “Tamino” in The Magic Flute and “Ranger Dudley” in Little Red’s Most Unusual day with Opera Iowa. He also sang with Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra in Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. He has played a variety of roles including Parpignol in La Boheme, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia. He was invited as an artist to perform alongside Nathan and Julie Gunn in their concert Nathan & Julie Gunn and Friends: An Evening on Broadway at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. As a soloist, Turner has performed composers that include Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Bach and Handel. Prior to the effects of COVID-19, Andrew was to return to Des Moines Metro Opera singing Tchaplitsky in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades and covering the role of “Tobias Raggs” in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd for their 48th Season.
Esteemed Contributors:
Dr. Gwynne Kuhner Brown
Professor of Musicology and Music Theory
University of Puget Sound
Dr. Ollie Watts Davis
Professor of Voice & Director of Black Chorus
University of Illinois School of Music
Dr. Joye Hardiman
Executive Director
Ancestral Art Works
Annie Jones Barnes
Pastor
Rock City Church
Dr. Casey Robards
Clinical Assistant Professor of Vocal Coaching
University of Illinois School of Music