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First Name
Andrew

Last Name
Lenhart

Title
Vocal Coach, Music Director for Opera Theatre, and Collaborative Pianist

Email
[email protected]

Office Phone
616-331-2572

Office Location
1232 HCPA

Biography
Andrew Lenhart enjoys a wide-ranging career as a collaborative pianist, vocal coach, teacher, music director, and minister of music. He has appeared in concert with distinguished artists such as Areta Zhulla, Stephen Clapp, Susanna Phillips, Paul Appleby, and Kyle Hoyt. Some of the venues he has performed at are Alice Tully Hall, Severance Hall, on The Music in the Loft Concert Series in Chicago, and on the Sunday Strings chamber music series at Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids. Andrew is an Affiliate Faculty Vocal Coach, Music Director of Opera Theatre, and Collaborative Pianist at Grand Valley State University. Recent music director credits there are Little Women: The Musical, and She Loves Me. Previous faculty positions include Wheaton and Nyack Colleges. He was the music director for the Milwaukee Opera Theater’s production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and the vocal coach for the opera scenes program at the MasterWorks Festival. Additionally, he served for 20 years as Minister of Music at several churches in New York and Michigan where he directed choirs, worship bands, and musicals. He holds a DMA in Collaborative Piano from the Juilliard School, an MM in Accompanying and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan, and a BM in Piano Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music. His teachers include Margo Garrett, Martin Katz, Jonathan Feldman, Anne Epperson, and Olga Radosavljevich.