Teaching

Student Accomplishments Highlights:

Tyrone Davis, Jr. - Waitress on Broadway, Ogie

Gizel Jimenez - Wicked on Broadway, Nessarose

Andrew Fehrenbacher - Higgins (undestudy), Frank, Ensemble My Fair Lady Broadway National Tour; von Trapp in Sound of Music at Utah Shakespeare Festival

Ryan Johnson - Lotte Lenya Competition Grand Prize 2023
Aaron Scarberry - iSing Festival (Beijing), runner-up Chinese International Art Song Competition

Katherine Bruton - Tosca in Tosca & Donna Anna in Don Giovanni Ouroboros Opera (Chicago); Harriett Beecher Stowe in The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace at Third Eye Theater Ensemble (Chicago); The Priestess of Morphine by Rosśa Crean (Chicago)

Joshua Stubbs - NATSAA Eastern Region Runner Up

Multiple Faculty Appointments, NATS Intern Program Participants, NATS National Presenters, NATS competition winners, Graduate School Scholarship Placements, and Professional Opera and Symphony Choristers

Student Mentored Research:

Cox, Elizabeth. “Musical Theatre and Popular Music: How Popular Music Genres and American Musical Theatre Have Interacted Over the Past 80 Years.” Masters Lecture Recital. Mississippi College. 2023.

O’Donnell, David. The “organ-accompanied solo motet” in La Maîtrise, 1857–1861. DMA Dissertation. West Virginia University. 2019.

Oswalt, Leah. “The Chest of Both Worlds.” Masters Lecture Recital. Mississippi College. 2019.

Pigott, Sarah. “Acoustics and Electroglottography of Obert’s High and Low Twang Theory.” 2019.

Usilton, Leigh. The Relationship between Kinesthetic Perceptions of Elite Musical Theater Singers and Acoustic Measures of Voice Production Methods: A Pedagogic Analysis. DMA Dissertation. West Virginia University. 2015.