Art Bumgardner earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas, Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, and Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Texas.  He retired from the University of Wisconsin-Superior in 2003 after thirty-seven years of teaching voice, opera, and musical theater as well as theory and music appreciation.  He is a veteran performer of recitals, oratorio, and opera, having performed such roles as Don Giovanni, Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), Schaunard (La Boheme), and Elijah.  He has served as chorus master for the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, and was music director at Pilgrim Congregational Church, Duluth, Minnesota for eighteen years.  He recently moved to Charleston where he is an adjunct faculty member in voice at the College of Charleston.  Since coming to Charleston, he has remained active as a performer.  During the past year he has appeared as baritone soloist in Dvorak's Te Deum and Haydn's Mass in Time of War with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; in J. S. Bach's St. John Passion at First Scots Presbyterian, Brahms Requiem at Grace Episcopal, and as Noah in Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde in a production by Ashley Hall at Memminger Auditorium.  He has been a member of Taylor Festival Choir since 2007.