Baritone Allen 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, Naples Philharmonic, Savannah Philharmonic, Hilton Head 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 Zaïde for the Mozart bicentennial. He has also appeared at the Ravinia Festival as a part of the Steans Institute Concert Series.
A versatile artist, teacher, conductor, and arts administrator, Henderson is currently Executive Director of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the world’s largest professional association of voice teachers and is professor of music at Georgia Southern University. Henderson can be heard on the recordings of the chamber operas of Mark Schweizer and Richard Shepherd and on an Aeolian Records release entitled Dimensions and on a world premier recording with guitarist Stanley Yates entitled Shadows featuring works by John Rutter, Michael Fink, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Carson Newman College, a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee, and a doctorate from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where his minor was in Arts Administration and he won the prestigious Corbett-Treigle Opera Competition.