Andrea Chenoweth Wells

Style: Opera; Jazz; Folk; Classical; Pop; Musical Theatre

Title: Assistant Professor

Bio: Andrea Chenoweth Wells, DMA, is a soprano, stage director, and intimacy director based in Dayton, Ohio. As a classically trained soprano, Wells has appeared with orchestras and opera companies throughout the US, including regular appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Opera, and Dayton Opera. Career highlights include her Carnegie Hall debut singing Verdi’s Requiem and touring Japan with Maestro Neal Gittleman and the Telemann Chamber Orchestra. She has sung numerous operatic roles and is a frequent soloist on The Shakespeare Concerts in Boston, MA. A proponent of new music, Wells has collaborated with many living composers including Libby Larsen, Joseph Summer, Jack Perla, Scott Gendel, Jonathon Sheffer, and Monica Houghton. She is a featured artist on extensive discography of works with text by Shakespeare on the Parma and Albany labels. Her stage directing credits include Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring, Marc Antoine Charpentier’s La Fête de Ruel, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and the musicals Chicago, The Sound of Music and Godspell. She has provided intimacy direction for Dido and Aeneas, Tosca, Sweeney Todd, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Green Day’s American Idiot. She earned her Doctorate in Music in Voice and Opera Directing at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, her Masters of Music degree in Voice from The Cleveland Institute of Music and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Dayton. She has trained as an intimacy director with Theatrical Intimacy Educators and holds a Consent-Forward Artist certificate from Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, Inc. Wells is an Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Dayton, where she teaches voice, opera, and a course of her own design--Music and Faith On Stage. She is the Vice President of the Ohio Chapter of the National Association for the Teachers of Singing (NATS); she is a member of the National Opera Association (NOA); and, she is the Intimacy Director in Residence at Dayton Opera.

Voice Type: Soprano

Music Styles Taught: Opera; Jazz; Folk; Classical; Pop; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am available as a performer; I am currently accepting private students; I am available as a clinician or presenter; I accept students through a college or university program

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