Currently specializing in AUDITION PREPARATION for PERFORMING ARTS HIGH SCHOOLS in New York City.  High success rate in this specialty.

Andrés Andrade is currently on the faculty at Queens College and maintains a busy private studio in addition to expanding duties at Citywide Youth Opera.  A graduate of New England Conservatory, he has performed over thirty roles in operatic, operetta, musical theatre, and zarzuela repertoire, and has been teaching voice since 1988. He spent five years on the vocal faculty and as director of the Opera Theatre at LaGuardia Arts High School, where among his productions, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice was the feature of a news segment on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition.  Several of his students have been accepted to top college and conservatory vocal departments, including the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, and the Chicago School of Performing Arts. He is author of several articles on the topic of high-school opera production and his first book, Absolute Beginners Voice, was released in spring, 2008.