Tedrin Blair Lindsay
Lecturer and Vocal Coach

Degrees:

• Ph.D. Candidate, University of Kentucky (anticipated graduation 2008)
• M.A. in Communication, Summa cum laude, Regent University
• B.A. in Music Performance (Piano), Magna cum laude, Asbury College, Wilmore, KY
• Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (L.R.S.M.) Exam in Piano Performance, Royal Schools of Music, London, England

Phone number: 859-257-2661

Email: tedrinlindsay@aol.com

Curriculum vitae (PDF)

TEDRIN BLAIR LINDSAY, pianist and musicologist, was raised in Rome, Italy and has been a professional accompanist since the age of ten.  He performs well over one hundred recitals annually, boasting a huge repertoire of vocal and instrumental chamber works, with specialties in 20th century French and American music. 

Mr. Lindsay is presently on the opera faculty at the University of Kentucky, where he works as vocal coach and musical director.  His UK productions have included Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land, Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, and seven incarnations of UK’s annual Broadway revue It’s a Grand Night for Singing.  Additionally, he played the harpsichord continuo for UK’s Mozart productions, Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro.  He also teaches the popular course “Introduction to Opera” for the Lexington Opera Society, and for several years has hosted the Opera Quiz intermission feature for the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions at both the district and regional levels.

While in Kentucky, Mr. Lindsay has collaborated several times with Actors’ Guild of Lexington – as award-winning musical director for Sondheim’s Assassins and William Finn’s Falsettos, and as composer of an elaborate score for Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner.  He also performs throughout Europe and North America several times a year as pianist with the American Spiritual Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Everett McCorvey.  Mr. Lindsay has also worked with such New York companies as Bel Canto Opera, Golden Fleece Opera, Westchester Opera, Rockwell Productions, and the off-Broadway Lamb’s Theatre Company.  In the early 1990s, he traveled as musical director of the first two national tours of Randy Courts and Mark St. Germain’s The Gifts of the Magi, and another national tour of Roger Miller’s Big River.

Mr. Lindsay is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at UK, completing a dissertation on the topic of mid-20th century American opera.  He also occasionally appears as an actor, with credits including the 1978 Bernardo Bertolucci film Luna starring Jill Clayburgh and Matthew Barry.