Terriq White
No Mean City: Baltimore 1966
Floyd McKissick
Terriq White received his masters at the University of Maryland Opera Studio. Upon graduating, he performed in his first professional engagement as Le Remendado in Bizet’s Carmen with the Washington Opera Society.
White attended Pittsburgh Festival Opera where he premiered as Victor in the critically acclaimed, award-winning opera A Gathering of Sons. Other notable roles include Mister in The Color Purple, Andy in Treemonisha, Walter in American Apollo, Sam Kaplin in Street Scene, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Tito in La clemenza di Tito, Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Tony in West Side Story; Bishop/Death/Sea Captain in The Young King, and Venditore di Canzonette in Puccini’s Il tabarro.
He toured the East Coast performing a concert of spirituals with Amici Music. While at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Terriq was a winner of the concerto competition with his rendition of ‘Sound an Alarm’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabeus.