About

Andrew Flasch (b. 1997) is an award-winning music and vocal director, pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, and educator with over 40 theatrical production credits.

Flasch most recently served as the music director for the Tony-Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival in their 2025 season. As of Fall 2025, he is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Mississippi (“Ole Miss”), and is concurrently earning his Master of Music in Collaborative Piano. Prior to that post, he was the Music Director, Accompanist, and Arranger for Southern Utah University’s Department of Theatre, Dance, and Arts Administration for two academic years.

From 2019-2024, Flasch served as the Music Director for Dunes Arts Foundation’s “Dunes Summer Theatre”, collaborating with director Steve Scott, 30-year Producer of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, on productions including The Bridges of Madison County, Next to Normal, Working (2012), and annual cabarets. Flasch’s work at the Dunes was the subject of a feature article, “The Man Behind the Music”, linked here.

He is the composer, lyricist, and playwright for a new musical The Baby with the Bathwater. He has also composed original music for three plays. As an arranger, he collaborated with creator and writer Kristyn Estes an original children’s musical, Critters - A Chatsical of Epidemic Proportions.

While studying at Valparaiso University, Flasch lead the university’s Chorale as President to Germany to perform at the Castle Church in Wittenberg and Bach’s St. Thomas Church in Leipzig for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. In addition to being the bass section leader and accompanying on piano for the Chorale’s tours, Flasch was commissioned to arrange two pieces: the first, a vocal jazz arrangement of the African-American spiritual Go Tell It on the Mountain, and second, and a medley of tunes from West Side Story for choir and four-hand piano.

His first music directing gig was at 19 years old for Crown Point Community Theatre’s Little Shop of Horrors; he was nominated for Best Musical Direction and won for Best Vocal Direction, while the show itself won Best Musical at the 2017 Northwest Indiana Excellence in Theatre (NIETF) Award Gala.