Damian Savarino, Bass, is a Senior Lecturer in Voice at Messiah College where he teaches voice and is the director of the Messiah College Opera Workshop. Before his appointment to Messiah, he served on the voice faculties of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City and Drexel University in Philadelphia. Mr. Savarino holds degrees from Ithaca College and the New England Conservatory and is currently working on a Doctoral of Music Arts degree in Vocal Performance at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. As a performer, Mr. Savarino has appeared with opera companies and orchestras across the nation such as Central City Opera, Summer Opera Theater Company, Ohio Light Opera, Light Opera Oklahoma, the Handel and Haydn Society, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and the Harrisburg Symphony. He has also been a guest recitalist at Penn. State University and in Ravanusa, Sicily. He is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), and the College Music Society

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Damian Savarino