A native of Detroit, Michigan, bass-baritone Andrew Hallam has been quickly gaining recognition for his extensive operatic and concert experience. 

Having recently graduated from the University of Michigan (U-M) under the tutelage of George I. Shirley, Andrew’s operatic training is significant. There he performed several roles, including Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with dialogue in German, Primo Guidice in Alessandro Stradella’s La Susanna, David in Barber’s A Hand of Bridge, Le Premier Ministre in Massenet’s Cendrillon,  the Doctor in William Grant Still’s Highway 1, U.S.A., and the Ripley Constable in Adolphus Hailstork’s Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story. Equally, Andrew is confident in art song repertoire, where he’s been a featured soloist on the recording of An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Songs and will be again in An Anthology of Songs of Joseph Bologne in 2023. All of these opportunities at the University of Michigan were ultimately made possible through the Jean Fairfax Scholarship, which granted him full tuition. 

Upon graduation, he made his European debut as Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Vienna Summer Music Festival. Other engagements include being a chorus member with Detroit Opera, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (2018-23), and HBO’s Game of Thrones North America Live Concert Tour.

Andrew also understands the significance of outreach. He’s performed throughout Michigan in opera outreach productions, such as the Motor City Lyric Opera’s The Billy Goat’s Gruff and Wesley Fishwick’s Opera Man, and volunteered through the U-M Prison Creative Arts Project to sing at a number of prisons. Andrew even was invited to be a guest speaker and performer for the Voces del Sol ensemble in Lima, Peru. 

In the summer of 2023, he will join the Opera in the Ozarks’ Emerging Artist Program, where he’ll perform the role of Dr. Dulcamara in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and Grandpa Moss in Copland’s The Tender Land. This was made possible through being one of four recipients of the Emerging Artist Full Tuition Scholarship. 

In addition to performing, Andrew Hallam teaches voice and beginner piano to students of all ages at the Grosse Pointe Music Academy.