Dr. Christopher O’Rear, Baritone appears regularly as a soloist and clinician around the Southeastern United States and abroad, performing in recitals, opera, and oratorio. He holds degrees from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, Samford University in Birmingham,AL, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Alabama where he studied in the voice studio of Dr. Susan Fleming.

Dr. O’Rear has previously been a featured soloist at the Bassi Brugnatelli International Symposium for Conductors and Singers in Robbiate, Italy, where he debuted his role as the title character in Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah, sang as the featured soloist in Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutches Requiem, and presented solo recitals.

On the operatic stage, Dr. O’Rear has given voice to such operatic characters as Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca, Tonio in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Danilo Danilovitch in Lehár’s The Merry Widow, and Bud in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring. Among his favorite oratorio roles, he has been a featured soloist in productions of Bach’s St. John Passion and Magnificat, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs and Dona Nobis Pacem, and Benjamin Britten’s Cantata Misericordium