Andrea Wells

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 at Boston’s The Shakespeare Concerts. She is featured on several recordings of works with text by Shakespeare on the Parma label. 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. Her operatic 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 and The Sound of Music. 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. Wells is an Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Dayton, where she currently 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 serves as Associate Editor of VOICE Prints, the online journal of the New York Singing Teachers Association (NYSTA).