Brandon Whitish, baritone and Wisconsin native, studied vocal performance at Luther College (2018) and later earned his Master’s degree at the University of Northern Iowa (2022). He is the most recent recipient of the Encore Excellence Graduate Award and a 2024 finalist in the Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition. Whitish originated the role of Conor in the world operatic premiere of A Nation of Others by Mark Campbell and Paul Moravec and is a current member of the American Spiritual Ensemble. In the summer of 2022, he joined the Sherrill Milnes Voice Studio, where he performed the role of Tommy Albright in Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon and was personally coached by world-renowned baritone Sherrill Milnes.

Some of Mr. Whitish’s notable opera performance credits include Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Elder McLean in Susannah, Betto in Gianni Schicchi, Moralès in Carmen, The Duke of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers, Baron Mirko Zeta in The Merry Widow, and Doctor Grenvil in La Traviata. He currently resides in Lexington, Kentucky, where he studies with Dr. Everett McCorvey while pursuing his DMA at the University of Kentucky.