Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble

“Andrew Ranson’s keening tenor…has a kind of stately, noble tone to it” according to the Tulsa World. Originally from Gunnison, Colorado, Mr. Ranson has been seen in regional and touring productions with Opera Aperta, Boston Bel Canto Opera, Opera Colorado, the Pine Mountain Music Festival, and San Diego Opera. Mr. Ranson has appeared as a principal artist with the Amato Opera, Bronx Opera, Light Opera Oklahoma (LOOK), Opera Colorado Education Tour and student matinee, Dicapo Opera Theater Young Artists, Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Opera, San Diego Opera Education Tour, Teatro Corleone and Troupers Light Opera.
As an oratorio soloist, he has performed numerous works of J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Britten, Händel, Haydn, Montiverdi, and Mozart. Also an accomplished professional choral singer, he has toured with the Waverly Consort and appeared regularly with Voices of Ascension.

Andrew is also an accomplished business executive where he has been engaged in international, strategy and marketing and technology businesses for nearly 20 years. He is currently with Future Point of View, a technology strategy firm. From 2006-2010 he served as a Senior Strategist of GiANT Partners, and then was President of GiANT Capital Fund I, the firm’s international investment arm until earlier this year. Early in his career, he was with the Boston Consulting Group (“BCG”) in Hong Kong, where he served major multi-national clients in the cement, medical equipment and petroleum industries, and in New York, where he helped in the early stages of the development of BCG’s global knowledge management database.

He is a magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, where he studied Chinese language and culture and received a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies: Chinese Language and Culture in 1991, and earned his MBA, summa cum laude, from Oklahoma Baptist University.
Although he took his degree in Chinese, Andrew has not yet attempted to perform Chinese Opera. He currently resides in Stillwater, Oklahoma with his wife, an elementary school music teacher, and their two children.