Extolled by The Baltimore Sun for his “robust work” and DC Metro Theater Arts for “a heart-stopping, high voltage bass-baritone voice,” Andrew Thomas Pardini continues to win audiences with his vibrant tone and thrilling character portrayals. Pardini is thrilled to be returning to Lakeside Presbyterian Church as Bass Section Leader of the Chancel Choir for the 2022-2023 Season. Upcoming engagements include company debuts with San Francisco Opera as part of its 2022-2023 Centennial Season, where he will perform as a member of the Regular Chorus, company and role debuts with San Francisco Opera as Flora’s Servant/La traviata, and company debut with San Francisco Opera Guild’s Opera Together as Marcello/La boh me. Earlier this season, Pardini made his company debut as Giuseppe Palmieri/The Gondoliers at Winter Opera Saint Louis, as well as Bass Soloist/Messiah at Handel Choir of Baltimore. During the 2020-2021 Season, Pardini made his company debut with Opera North as Schaunard/La boh me, in addition to serving as a 2021 Opera North Resident Artist, company and role debuts with Opera Orlando as Dr. Falke/Die Fledermaus, Peter (Cover)/Hansel and Gretel, and Danca re & Escamillo (Cover)/Carmen, in addition to serving as a 2020-2021 Opera Orlando Studio Artist, as well as company debut with Gulfshore Opera as Schaunard/La boh me. Pardini made his company and European debuts at Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra as part of its 2018-2019 Season, where he performed the Baritone Soloist/Ein deutsches Requiem at such venues as Hertz Hall (Berkeley, USA), Alexela Kontserdimaja (Tallinn, Estonia), Rīgas Doms (Riga, Latvia), and Konserthuset Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden). Other recent engagements include company and role debuts as Nils Krogstad at Voice Afire Opera-Cabaret in the World Premiere of Raymond Luedeke’s A Doll’s House, role debut as Edmund Bertram/Mansfield Park at Opera Modesto, role debut as Silvio/Pagliacci at Salt Marsh Opera, company debuts as Schaunard/La boh me at The Festival of the Atlantic and Salt Marsh Opera, company and role debuts as Tobia Mill/La cambiale di matrimonio and Der dritte Edle & Telramund (Cover)/Lohengrin at Opera Southwest, company debut as Peter/H nsel und Gretel at Bar Harbor Music Festival, role debut as Emperor Overall/The Emperor of Atlantis at IN Series, company debut as Bass Soloist/Messiah at Bach In Baltimore, as well as company and role debuts as Baritone Soloist/Ein deutsches Requiem at Crescent Choral Society. A native of Modesto, California, Pardini is based in the San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan area. For more information, please visit www.andrewthomaspardini.com.