About Dr. Henderson:

Baritone Allen Henderson is Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University where he teaches voice and diction. He holds degrees from Carson Newman College (BM), The University of Tennessee (MM), and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (DMA) where his minor was in Arts Administration and he was winner of the prestigious Corbett-Treigle Opera Competition. As baritone soloist, Dr. Henderson has appeared in concert, opera, and oratorio with the Knoxville Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Tennessee Opera Theatre, Knoxville Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Oak Ridge Symphony, Southern Georgia Symphony, the Bach Aria Festival in Stony Brook, NY, the Chautauqua Institution, and the Beloit-Janesville (WI) Symphony. He appeared at Lincoln Center as Allazim in the CCM production of Zaïde for the Mozart bicentennial. He has also appeared at the Ravinia Festival as a part of the Steans Institute Concert Series. Henderson has performed premieres of works by John Rutter, Nancy Hill Cobb, Mark Schwiezer, Richard Shepherd, and Jeffrey Wood.

A district winner and regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera auditions, Dr. Henderson was winner of the 1995 National Federation of Music Clubs Artist Awards and since has appeared throughout the US in recitals under the auspices of the NFMC. Among his other awards are: Second Prize in the McCammon Opera Competition of the Fort Worth Opera, Second Prize in the Miami Opera Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition, Second Prize in the Opera Guild of San Antonio Opera Talent Search, winner of the vocal division of the Hemphill-Wells Sorantin Awards for Young Artists in San Angelo, Texas. and winner of numerous NATS auditions. He has also presented recitals and master classes at universities throughout the country.

As director of opera at Austin Peay State University where he taught from 1994-2005, Dr Henderson produced full productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus, Candide, Trouble in Tahiti, Trial By Jury, and Game of Chance. In 2004 he directed the premier of A Perfect Plan by composer Seymour Barab with the composer in attendance. He has also created roles and directed premieres of the chamber operas St. Nicholas and Good King Wenceslas by Richard Shepherd and Mark Schweizer and directed the premier of Diaries by Jeffrey Wood. Dr. Henderson can be heard on the recordings of both of the chamber operas by Schweizer and Shepherd issued by St. James Press. He also can be heard on Aeolian Records release entitled Dimensions and on his world premier recording with guitarist Stanley Yates entitled Shadows featuring works by John Rutter, Michael Fink, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.