Tedrin Blair Lindsay

Adjunct Vocal Coach


Tedrin Blair Lindsay, pianist and musicologist, was raised in Rome, Italy and has been a professional accompanist since the age of ten. He performs dozens of recitals annually, boasting a huge repertoire of vocal and instrumental chamber works, with specialties in 20th Century French and American music. Mr. Lindsay is presently a staff musical director for University of Kentucky Opera Theatre and pianist for the UK School of Music. His UK productions have included Copland's The Tender Land, Sondheim's A Little Night Music, Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, and four incarnations of UK's annual Broadway revue It's a Grand Night for Singing. While in Lexington, Mr. Lindsay has collaborated several times with Actors' Guild – as musical director for Assassins and Falsettos (winning a "Smitty" for the latter) and as composer of an elaborate score for Angels in America: Perestroika. He also tours throughout Europe and North America several times a year as pianist with the American Spiritual Ensemble under the direction of Everett McCorvey. He has also worked with such New York companies as Bel Canto Opera, Golden Fleece Opera, Westchester Opera, Rockwell Productions, and the off-Broadway Lamb's Theatre Company.

Mr. Lindsay is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at UK, completing a dissertation on the topic of mid-20th Century American opera. He is also a long-distance runner, a baker of delectable sweets, and a formidable foe in the card games Canasta, Hearts and Spades.


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