Our Director - Anthony Cao

Director Anthony Cao received his BME in music education from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2002, where he was named winner of the annual student concerto competition. He also twice won the National Association for the Teachers of Singing auditions in 2000 and 2001.

Cao has worked as guest clinician/composer with local groups such as Madison Youth Choirs and UW Summer Music Clinic and with many other choirs throughout the Midwest. He has also served as director of music at University United Methodist Church and Lake Edge United Church of Christ, where he helped to found the contemporary “Noisy Worship” as bandleader of “The Lift.” Equally comfortable in many genres of music, he has a wide variety of recent performance credits, including baritone soloist with the Oakwood Chamber Players, “Thuy” in Four Seasons Theatre’s Miss Saigon, assistant music director for Madison Repertory Theatre’s Carousel, and pianist for Academy-Award Winner Jorge Drexler and for rock legend Boz Scaggs.

He and his wife Leslie perform a jazz/pop cabaret show weekly at Maduro and The Ivory Room. He has been the director of choirs at Madison West High School since 2004.