Alex Lawrence, Baritone, was born in Boston and studied at Northwestern University in Chicago. For four years, while continuing his studies at Northwestern with renowned baritone Sherrill Milnes and Bruce Hall, he also worked with the V.O.I.C.Experience foundation, directed by Mr. Milnes and Maria Zouves. Currently, Mr. Lawrence is a second-year artist-in-residence at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, studying with Bill Schuman. With AVA he has sung Germont in La Traviata, Guglelmo in Cosi Fan Tutte and the title role in Mendelssohn's Elijah. Last year he won a scholarship from the American Opera Society of Chicago, and this year encouragement grants from the Licia-Albanese Puccini Foundation and Opera Index Foundation. He also earned third place in the 2008 Gerda Lissner competition and was a finalist in the Martinelli-Pertile competition in Montagnana, Italy.

He made his professional stage debut in 2006 with Cedar Rapids Opera Theater in H.M.S Pinafore and Susannah, then joined Des Moines Metropolitan Opera in 2007 as an apprentice artist. Other roles in his resume include Il Conte in Le Nozze di Figaro in Cortona, Italy under the auspices of Oberlin in Italy; Tagliaferro in Piccinni's La Buona Figliola at the Teatro Piccinni in Bari, Italy; and The Marquis in Dialogues of the Carmelites, along with a variety of assignments in other productions at Northwestern University.

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