The Music Theatre program, directed by Victoria Bussert, draws hundreds of auditioners each year.

The festival was founded in 1932 by Professor Albert Riemenschneider (longtime Director of the College Conservatory) and his wife, Selma.

[11][12][13] In 2012, internationally heiled Bach scholar Ton Koopman worked with the Conservatory's Motet choir.

Having outgrown its existing facilities in the early 2000s, the Conservatory embarked on a second expansion and renovation project, and in August 2008 acquired the adjacent First Congregational United Church of Christ building.

This building was renovated to house conservatory programs and attached to Merner-Pfeiffer Hall via a new connecting structure.

The conservatory presented the Puccini and Larson works in repertory, for the first time in the world, in February 2011, with nearly 80 students from the music theater and voice departments.

[19] In 2007, Baldwin Wallace was selected to perform one of six pre-release pilot productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera.

While there are no plans at this time to release Phantom to the stock and amateur market, we want to be fully prepared for when that great day arrives.

What we learn from the production at Baldwin-Wallace College and five other sites we've chosen will help us with the process of bringing the longest running musical in Broadway history to theaters across the country.

[22] During each spring since 2011, students from Baldwin Wallace have performed an entire album recorded by The Beatles, complete with full orchestrations.

In 2009, BW added Wagnerian soprano Jane Eaglen to the staff, joining the 20th-century music performer Nanette Canfield, and heldentenor Dr. Timothy Mussard.

The instrumental staff features Jack Sutte, Cleveland Orchestra trumpeter and Dr. Robert Mayerovitch, author and active clinician for keyboard studies.