A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, baritone Douglas Webster studied at Indiana and Northwestern universities, the Banff Centre (Alberta), and in France. He made his debut in 1988 at Leonard Bernstein’s seventieth-birthday concert at Tanglewood as the Celebrant in Bernstein’s Mass and has performed it at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Vatican. Artistic director of the American Singer seminar in Breckenridge, Colorado, he is on the faculty of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, University of Memphis.