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Dr. Andrew Childs serves currently as Administrative Dean, Humanities Chair, and Professor of Music and Communications at St. Mary’s College, and an Assistant to the SSPX Director of Education for the United States District. Previously, he taught at Missouri State University, Thames Valley Music School at Connecticut College, the Yale University School of Drama, and served as Managing Coordinator of the Department of Voice and Opera at the Yale School of Music. He earned his Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of California, Irvine, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Washington where he published his dissertation on the music of Charles Ives.
As a vocal soloist, Dr. Childs has sung performances ranging from Gregorian chant to New Music and Broadway. He has appeared with orchestras and in recital throughout the country and has sung over one hundred performances of nearly thirty operatic roles for, among others, Seattle Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Harrisburg Opera, The Center for Contemporary Opera, Amato Opera, Springfield Opera, and various new music workshops. Numerous premieres include works by Pulitzer Prize winner Yehudi Wyner. He has recorded for the Albany, Centaur, and Parma labels. The American Record Guide stated concerning his solo disc of Charles Ives songs was released on Centaur Records in 2006, “…there is no better recording by a tenor.” In 2015, Parma records released his recording of Michael Murray’s Four Songs of Solomon, recorded with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Publications for Angelus Press include Love in the Ruins: Modern Catholics in Search of the Ancient Faith, and numerous articles in the Angelus magazine.
Dr. Childs has been a Professor of Music History at St. Mary’s College since 2007, and Professor of Rhetoric and Communications since 2009.
