Berry College - Evans School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences

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Harry Musselwhite, Bass, has enjoyed an acclaimed vocal performance career on both sides of the Atlantic. In opera, operetta, and musical theatre he has performed leading and supporting roles with American Bel Canto Opera at Hilton Head, The Asheville Lyric Opera, Augusta Opera, Capitol City Opera, Chattanooga Opera, Kansas City Starlight Theatre, The Marc Blitzstein Opera Company, St. Louis Muny Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and The Southeastern Savoyards. In Concert he has been heard as a featured soloist with The Chattanooga Symphony, Gainesville Symphony, Rome Symphony, Valdosta Symphony, The Chamber Players of the South, The Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet, and the New York Russian Choral Festival.

Musselwhite has performed as a soloist extensively in the United Kingdom. He has been featured in solo recitals at The Holborne Museum in Bath, and in two invited recitals at St. James’s at Piccadilly in London. He has performed as bass soloist in oratorio extensively with The Virtuosi of London Orchestra at Wells Cathedral and in several important London Venues.

A graduate of Indiana University and The University of Georgia, Musselwhite was for many years a student of legendary Metropolitan Opera soprano Margaret Harshaw. He continues vocal work in New York City with Ted Taylor.

Under his baton, the choral forces at Berry College have performed throughout The United States and Europe. The Berry Concert Choir has performed with The Chattanooga Symphony, Rome Symphony, Atlanta Ballet, and even for The Atlanta Braves in Fulton County Stadium. The Berry Singers have also been featured with The Chattanooga Symphony and Rome Symphony, and have also entertained at major corporate shareholder events. The Berry Chamber Choir, the international touring wing of the Berry Choral department, has performed at Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin, Regent’s Hall in London, St. Margaret’s at Westminster in London, Canterbury Cathedral, Wells Cathedral, St. Agathe’s in Amsterdam, Sacre Coeur in Paris, The Kulturzentrum in Salzburg, The Rotunda of the United States Senate Building in Washington, D.C., and at Weill Recital at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Musselwhite is in constant demand as a choral clinician and adjudicator, having judged throughout the region. He has delivered clinics at The Georgia Music Educator’s Conference in Savannah, The MENC Eastern Division Conference in New York City, and has been an honor choir director at numerous events in Georgia and Tennessee. He has been a professional choral adjudicator with The Southern Star Music Festival for over fifteen years.

The Berry Concert Choir has performed at The Georgia Music Educator’s Conference in Savannah, Georgia, where they received an instantaneous standing ovation at the end of their concert.

Vocal students of Harry Musselwhite have graduated from Berry College and gone on to the world’s finest stages. Berry College vocalists are regularly accepted to the nation’s finest graduate vocal programs: Indiana University, Cincinnati, Northwestern, University of Tennessee and more. Students of Harry Musselwhite have performed to ecstatic reviews at The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera, the London Philharmonic, and many, many more.

Harry Musselwhite has received The Rome Arts Council’s Artist of the Year Award for 2003, and in 1998, he received The Voice of Berry Award at Berry College.

An accomplished filmmaker, Harry Musselwhite is Executive Director of The Rome International Film Festival, and his 2010 short film, “Der Greis”, has been featured at The Albuquerque Film Festival, Mountain Madness Film Festival, Southern Appalachian Film Festival, Macon Film Festival, and Prescott Film Festival. His screenplay, “Martha Berry”, was a semi-finalist in Hollywood’s Kairos Prize for most spiritually uplifting screenplay of 2008.

Harry Musselwhite is an accomplished guitarist in many musical areas and an avid equestrian. He can often be found as the announcer for Berry College’s Equestrian Team, and singing the national anthem while sitting in the saddle of his great draft cross horse, Geronimo.

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