North Carolina native André Peele is a graduate of Florida State University's College of Music.   He has seen in FSU opera’s productions The Process, La Cenerentola, Street Scene, and Romeo é Juliette, to name a few.  He has worked with opera companies such as Virginia Opera, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Piedmont Opera, and The Princeton Festival.  He has performed as a concert soloist with the Jackson Symphony, the Tallahassee Community Chorus, the Tallahassee Civic Chorale, and Mitchell Community College.  In 2013André performed in the regional and collegiate premiere of David T. Little’s Soldier Songs.  He has also been seen in musicals on the Quincy Music Theatre stage as the Judge Turpin in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Beast in the musical Beauty and the Beast as well Theatre Tallahassee’s as Juan Peron in the musical Evita

 

André is an alumnus of the UNC-School of the Art’s high school and undergraduate programs.  While at UNCSA he performed the roles of Dr. Cajus in the Merry Wives of Windsor, Burton in The Hotel Casablanca, and many more.  In 2009 André performed the role of Tom Collins in Theatre Alliance’s production in RENT.

 

André is heavily involved in bringing music education to the community.  In 2016 he premiered the role of Thomas in Glen Winter’s Deep River: The Marian Anderson Journey that toured Virginia as a part of Virginia Opera’s outreach program.  He performed with the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute’s educational outreach production of the Three Little Pigs as well as Florida State University’s outreach production of Cosi fan tutte. As a teacher his students have been accepted into many of the countries best programs in both classical music, musical theatre, and have won highly competitive awards. When he is not on the stage or teaching, André is an active headshot and stage photographer.