Andrew Schultze

Adjunct Faculty: Vocal Techniques I; Singing On Stage; Private Lessons
Specialty: Vocal Performance

Bass-baritone Andrew Schultze is an active performer, conductor, stage director and teacher. He received his BFA and MFA degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo and did post-graduate work at the International Opera Studio in Zurich Switzerland. He received the Gallery 37 Super Star Teacher Award in 2003 and 2004 for his work with The Operatics Vocal Ensemble. Schultze is included in Marquise’s Who’s Who in America 2004.

As a performer, Andrew Schultze is well known as an interpreter of the standard opera/oratorio repertoire, and as a specialist in the performance of early music. His cast of characters includes villains, heroes and buffoons in operas by Mozart, Donizetti, Gounod, Humperdinck and Puccini and baroque works by Pergolesi, Handel and Vivaldi. In 1994, he sang the role of Apollo in an in-concert performance of Jacopo Peri's La Pellegrina at La Scala, Milan with the Vienna Baroque Ensemble. Schultze’s performances have been broadcast on television and radio in Europe and in the United States, and he has recorded for Nonesuch and Orion and for French and Italian labels. Among this season’s singing engagements are concerts for Ars Musica Chicago, The Center for Black Music Research (early music by Lusitano and Nunes-Garcia), Columbia College Chicago and the Waukegan Symphony. He will sing Bach Cantatas BWV #s 11, 107, 113, and 133, Benoit and Alcindoro in La Boheme and in a production of del Moral’s comic opera La Opera Casera. In October 2004, he performed the Medieval Carmina Burana with the Clemencic Consort at the Voralberg Festival in Austria, and baroque works with the Austrian Ensemble Affetti Musicali on their USA tour.

Andrew Schultze has staged productions of medieval mystery plays, baroque and early classical period operas and standard repertoire works including: The Play of Daniel, La Purpura de la Rosa by Torrejon y Velasco (the first opera composed in the Americas), the tragic Il Pianto di Rodomonte by Abbatini, the comical Opera Casera by del Moral, Mozart’s The Impressario, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors and The Old Maid and the Thief. He is presently the musical/stage director of The Operatics Vocal Ensemble for Gallery 37, a professional opera workshop for students aged 14 to 21.

Mr. Schultze has presented master classes and participated in early music workshops for Ars Musica Chicago; The American Recorder Society; Vienna Baroque Ensemble; West Virginia University; University of Pittsburgh; Roosevelt University; Elmhurst College; University of Indiana, Terre Haute; the University of Innsbruck Mozarteum; and the University of Chicago. He is the founder and artistic director of Ars Musica Chicago and on the voice faculty of Columbia College Chicago. His article "Performing Amarilli Mia Bella" was published in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Journal of Singing in the January/February 2000 issue.