Andrew Minear

With over one hundred appearances across twelve states, Andrew Minear is an active guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and presenter. Minear’s dedication to lifelong choral singing and passion for expressive music-making have been cultivated through conductor-teacher experiences in children’s, church, community, middle school, high school, and collegiate choral settings.

Minear currently serves as the Director of Choral Activities at the University of Alabama where he leads the university choirs, oversees the graduate choral conducting program, and teaches courses in conducting and choral literature. During his doctoral studies in choral conducting at Michigan State University, Andrew Minear served as the director of the MSU Campus Choir and assistant director of the MSU Men’s Glee Club.

Over the course of a twelve-year career in the Orlando-area public schools, Minear taught middle school and high school chorus, music history, keyboard, musical theater, and AP Music Theory. During his tenure as choral director at Dr. Phillips High School, home of the Visual and Performing Arts Magnet for Orange County Public Schools, choirs under his direction performed to acclaim at State (2011), Southern Division (2012), and National (2013) Conferences of the American Choral Directors Association. The DPHS Concert Choir performed with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, and Minear’s students were selected over 180 times for All-State and ACDA Honor Choirs. He received his Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music Education from the Florida State University.