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Biography

<b>Dr. Andrea M. Price</b> is Assistant Professor of Voice in the School of Music at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ. Prior to this, Dr. Price spent 16 years at Piedmont University in Demorest, GA, where she was Professor of Music and most recently, Chair of the Department of Music. She holds a BM in Voice Performance and Music Education from Meredith College, an MM in Voice Performance from Appalachian State University, and a DMA in Voice Performance from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Price has also held positions on the faculties of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, Meredith College, and Peace College, in addition to having taught music in the public schools of North Carolina. Dr. Price has performed the roles of Mrs. Ford in Nicolai’s <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i> and Ciesca in Puccini’s <i>Gianni Schicchi</i>. She has performed in Italy twice in conjunction with the NC Young Artists’ Program of Raleigh, first as the title role in Puccini’s <i>Suor Angelica</i> (Sansepolcro) and then as La Contessa in Mozart’s <i>Le Nozze di Figaro</i> (Tiber Sinfonia Festival, Monterchi). Additionally, she performed the song cycle <i>Orpheus and Euridice</i> by Ricky Ian Gordon in Mykonos, Greece and was a guest artist with <i>duo per se</i>, presenting a concert by American composers in Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand. She has been a featured soloist with the South Carolina Philharmonic and the Monroe Symphony Orchestra of Louisiana and has done various solos in conjunction with the Piedmont University Great Composers series. She was a winner of the 2010 Georgia National Association of Teachers of Singing Artists’ Awards competition.

Education

• DMA, University of South Carolina-Columbia
• MM, Appalachian State University
• BM, Meredith College