Meet Dr. Sam Handley

This week Dr. Greta Pope sits down with bass-baritone, Dr. Sam Handley. Dr. Handley has performed more than a dozen roles at Lyric Opera of Chicago (where he was also a member of the Ryan Opera Center). A fervent proponent of contemporary composers, Sam has delivered several world premieres and he has been a guest artist with the Cleveland Orchestra with Franz Welser-Möst at both Severance and Carnegie Halls, Houston Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia with James Conlon. Dr. Handley has long loved sharing his knowledge of the art of singing and was a Teaching Fellow during both his Master and Doctoral studies. He has taught at UW-Platteville, Lee College, San Jacinto College, North Park University, Madison Summer Music Clinic, and Musica nelle Marche (Urbino, Italy) and is in demand as a Master Teacher, Clinician and Adjudicator. Sam currently serves on the faculty of DePaul University in Chicago. He is Vice-President of the Chicago Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Executive and Artistic Director of the Green Lake Festival of Music.