Baritone Joshua Alan Lindsay is a native of Nashville, TN at the start of his professional career. He most recently played the role of Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd as part of the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival’s 2018 season. Other recent credits include the Bonze in Madama Butterfly, Escamillo in Carmen, Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer, the dual roles of Keith and the Father in Lee Hoiby’s This is the Rill Speaking, and Tobia Mill in Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio. He has sung in multiple productions with the Nashville Opera Ensemble and in concert as soloist with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra. As the first vocalist to win the Nashville Philharmonic’s 2017 Concerto Competition, he sang selections from Shostakovich’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death with the orchestra.

Lindsay received his Masters of Music in Vocal Performance in 2016 from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. The following summer, he sang with the Musiktheater Bavaria program in Oberaudorf, Germany, where he performed scenes from Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, and Flotow’s Martha. His undergraduate work was in composition and he continues to compose art song and chamber works. He is a strong advocate for new music and has happily lent his voice to other composers to help premiere their works. Lindsay is quite comfortable on stage and has also performed in theatre productions, most recently performing the roles of Donald in The Boys in the Band and Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest.