Alex Lawrence	Audio of 2010 Concert Audition
Baritone
New England Finalist, 2010

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 third-year artist-in-residence at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, studying with Bill Schuman. With AVA he has sung Ford in Falstaff, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Germont in La Traviata, Guglelmo in Cosi Fan Tutte, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and the title role of Mendelssohn's Elijah. He is the recipient of a scholarship from the American Opera Society of Chicago, fourth place in the Opera Index Foundation competition, 2009 and last year encouragement grants from the Licia-Albanese Puccini Foundation and Opera Index. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2009 as a Third Place winner of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and was a finalist in the Martinelli-Pertile competition in Montagnana, Italy and the 2009 Liederkranz competition general opera division. 

In the summer of 2009 Mr. Lawrence made his Tanglewood festival debut under the baton of James Levine, singing the role of Kothner in Act III of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg in concert as well as Baritone I in a fully staged production of Stravinsky’s Renard, directed by Mark Morris. 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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