Andrew Byrne is a voice teacher, vocal coach, composer, performer and music director. He was named one of the “Favorite Vocal Coaches” in NYC in the 2009 Backstage Reader’s Choice Awards.  Andrew has served on the faculty of the School of Fine Arts at Boston University, holding positions in both the music and theater departments. He holds a Master of Music degree in vocal pedagogy and performance from Arizona State University, as well as an undergraduate degree in vocal performance from Western Michigan University.

    Andrew's Broadway and off-Broadway conducting/keyboard credits include Les Misérables, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, A Class Act and Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh.  He has also been involved as a singing coach on many high-profile projects, including The Bridge Project, directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes.  He made his Lincoln Center conducting debut with a concert version of Triumph of Love, followed by a return engagement to lead a production of Andrew Lippa's john and jen. He has also conducted projects for such prominent New York companies as the York Theater, Primary Stages and the New York Musical Theater Festival.  Other favorite regional conducting credits include The Full Monty and Ragtime for the Weston Playhouse, Ragtime for North Shore Music Theater, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella for Yale Repertory Theatre, and Pump Boys and Dinettes for St. Michael’s Playhouse.

    The majority of Andrew's voice studio is made up of working musical theater professionals; in the past few seasons, his students have been seen in over 35 Broadway shows, including Wicked, Billy Elliott, Rock of Ages, Hair, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Hairspray, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Young Frankenstein, Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Chorus Line, Mamma Mia!, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables, The Light in the Piazza, and Rent.  

   Andrew also writes and performs in Mock Your World, a show of his original songs that has been performed in NYC venues such as Ars Nova, The Laurie Beechman Theatre and the late, lamented Zipper Theater.  As an arranger, Andrew has collaborated with many top artists, including Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Laura Bell Bundy, Mara Davi and Leslie Kritzer.  His work has also been heard by millions of people as the vocal arranger for the Glamazons on season 2 of NBC’s America’s Got Talent.  His songs are performed all over the country and internationally, and have been featured on such prominent blogs as Americablog and Towleroad. Performances of his parody of Goldrich and Heisler's "Taylor the Latte Boy" have received almost 500,000 view on youtube.

   In his performing career, Andrew has taken on many leading roles in musical theater, including Robert in Company, Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden, and Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady. His operatic roles have included Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte, the Vicar in Albert Herring, and Edwin in Trial by Jury.   Andrew studied at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria and at the Bay View Music Festival.