Adjunct Professor of Voice

Prescott-based baritone, William Nathan Vallandigham, is an up-and-coming singing actor and concert soloist, as well as a professional chorister. Vallandigham is regularly seen on opera and concert stages across Arizona, Southern California, and the greater Chicago area. Upcoming engagements include singing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in their 2024-25 season production of Verdi’s Requiem. Recently, he was featured in the role of Gregorio in Arizona Opera’s production of Roméo et Juliette. Previous performance credits include the roles of Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Francis Nurse (The Crucible), Morales (Carmen), Pish-Tush (The Mikado), Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Maximillian/Cacambo (Candide), Barone Douphol (La traviata), Editor Webb (Our Town) and Yeletsky (Queen of Spades). Other career highlights include his performance in the North American staged premiere of Phillip Glass’s Kepler (Spoleto Festival USA). Vallandigham’s solo concert engagements range in diversity. Most recently, he was featured as Petrus from Bach’s Johannes-Passion with Prescott’s own Quartz Ensemble, as well as a featured soloist with the Distant Worlds Orchestra in Los Angeles; performing the orchestrated music of video game composing legend, Nobuo Uematsu. Vallandigham has had the pleasure to sing under the direction of some of the most prolific conductors and interpreters of classical music, including Ricardo Muti, Marin Alsop, Daniel Harding, and Osmo Vänskä. Vallandigham earned his Master of Music from Westminster Choir College and a Bachelor of Music from Baldwin Wallace University. He currently lives in Prescott with his wife and daughter.