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Andrew
Ryker, stage director,
has
made an impressive beginning with productions that have been described
as seamless, smart, and hilariously funny. Andrew has staged
productions for various companies and schools including Boston Opera
Collaborative (Iphigenie
en Aulide, Don Giovanni),
Millikin Opera Guild (Candide),
and New England Conservatory Light Opera (Songs
for a New World)
in addition to scenes programs for Millikin University Opera Theatre,
the Boston Opera Collaborative, and the New England Conservatory Graduate Opera Seminar. A
versatile vocalist, Andrew has been heard with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, College Light Opera Company, Overture Productions, New
England Conservatory Opera Theatre, and La Musica Lirica of Italy.
Also an active educator, he has served on the faculty at the Walnut
Hill School for the Arts and at Illinois Central College. Andrew
received
his master's from New England Conservatory and is the recipient of the
Goldovsky Directing Internship at the Harrower Opera Workshop in
Atlanta.
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his debut with Intermezzo in Benjamin Britten's Curlew
River and returned to stage Pasatieri's Signor Deluso May,
2007, the world premiere of Thomas Oboe Lee's The Inman Diaries,
and the premiere of Charles Shadle's A Last
Goodbye. In 2009 Andrew returns as stage director for
Britten's The Prodigal Son.
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