2014 National Conference Program Book by National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc.

53NATIONAL CONFERENCE RD

N AT I O N A L A S S O C I AT I O N O F T E A C H E R S O F S I N G I N G

JULY 5–9, 2014

Boston Marriott® Copley Place

NATS.ORG/Boston2014

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FACULTY

Robert Bracey Donald Hartmann David Holley Carla LeFevre Clara Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien Carole Ott Levone Tobin Scott Nancy Walker Robert Wells Welborn Young

DEGREES IN VOICE

Bachelor of Arts in Music Bachelor of Music in Performance Bachelor of Music in Music Education Bachelor of Music in Composition Master of Music in Performance or Performance/Pedagogy Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education

Online: performingarts.uncg.edu Email: music@uncg.edu Telephone: 336-334-5789 Social Media: facebook.com/musictheatredance

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Just the Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 President’s Welcome Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Conference Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Conference Program Chair’s Welcome Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 National Conference Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Coordinating Committee Welcome Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Conference at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-10 2015 Winter Workshop in West Palm Beach, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Pre-Conference Program Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 National Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Opening Ceremony Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE: Friday, July 4, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Saturday, July 5, 2014. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-21 Sunday, July 6, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-31 Monday, July 7, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-41 Tuesday, July 8, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41-53 Wednesday, July 9, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 National Conference Presenters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57-87 Thank You to the Conference Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Independent Teacher Fellowship Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 NATS Staff Welcome Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Emerging Leader Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Advertiser Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Property Maps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92-93 Exhibitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Exhibition Hall Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 54th National Conference in Chicago (2016) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 Map of Downtown Boston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

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JUST THE FACTS EXHIBIT HALL GRAND OPENING

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Located in 4th Floor Foyer FRIDAY, JULY 4

12–4 pm

SATURDAY, JULY 5

8 am–5 pm

SUNDAY, JULY 6

8 am–5 pm

MONDAY, JULY 7

8:30 am–4:30 pm

TUESDAY, JULY 8

8:30 am–3:30 pm

Exhibit Hall opens at 5 pm Reception: Saturday, July 5, 5:30–7 pm Location: Back Bay Exhibit Hall

EXHIBIT HALL OPEN Sunday, July 6 & Monday, July 7: 10 am–6 pm Tuesday, July 8: 9 am–12 pm

• GENERAL SESSIONS ......................................................................................................................................................................... Salon EF, 4th Floor • BREAKOUT SESSIONS ...............................................................................................................4th Floor - Salon F; Salon A-D; Salon H-K 3rd Floor - Arlington; Back Bay Meeting Rooms (Fairfield, Exeter, & Dartmouth) • AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING SALES ................................................................................................................................................4th Floor Foyer • NATS ARTIST AWARDS (NATSAA) SEMIFINAL COMPETITION........................................................................ Salon EF, 4th Floor • NATS ARTIST AWARDS (NATSAA) FINAL COMPETITION .................................................................................... Salon EF, 4th Floor • NATIONAL MUSIC THEATER SEMIFINAL COMPETITION ................................................................................. Salon H-K, 4th Floor • NATIONAL MUSIC THEATER COMPETITION FINAL ................................................................................................. Salon EF, 4th Floor • NATS STUDENT AUDITIONS SEMIFINAL COMPETITION...................................................... Offsite at Boston Conservatory • NATS STUDENT AUDITIONS FINAL COMPETITION ............................................................................................. Salon H-K, 4th Floor

PUBLISHER SHOWCASE SESSIONS

POSTER PAPER SESSIONS

4th Floor - Salon EF or Salon A-D

3rd Floor - Back Bay Meeting Rooms (Clarendon and Berkeley)

Please check your program schedule for specific times, locations, and topics.

Will be on display during the lunch break from 12–2 pm and throughout the afternoon.

DINING

PARKING INFORMATION

Dining options at the hotel:

Hotel Valet Parking: $49 USD daily Off-site self-parking: $37 USD daily* *Very limited parking in adjacent Copley Place garage/ valet fee includes in/out privileges. Self-parking does not.

• Champions - American - 2nd Floor - open B,L,D • Connexion Lounge - 2nd Floor - open L,D • Starbucks Coffee House - 2nd Floor - open B,L,D Near the hotel there are numerous choices in both adjoining malls, a supermarket across the street from the hotel lobby, and restaurants near the front door of the hotel. Check hotel website for more options nearby. Boston has various food truck options nearby. For a complete schedule, visit: http://www.cityofboston.gov/business/mobile/ schedule-tabs.asp

MBTA Commuter Parking Facilities: Park at the MBTA lot of your choice and ride public transportation. For information on using commuter lots, visit mbta.com - MBTA parking facilities are for commuter use only. - Payment of the daily parking fee grants the single use of one space on the day for which it was paid. - The daily parking fee expires at 2 am the following day. - Vehicles parked at any MBTA parking facility are parked at the owner's risk.

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Welcome to Boston and the 70th Anniversary celebration of the National Association of Teachers of Singing! On behalf of the NATS Board of Directors, thank you for joining your friends and colleagues in historic Boston for a unique learning experience at the 53rd National Conference. We hope that you will enjoy the many wonderful and varied sessions, concerts, and competitions and will investigate the numerous exhibits. Kathryn Proctor Duax

There will be many opportunities to connect with your colleagues, exchange ideas, and plan using the latest research and techniques. The NATS Board is excited about all that we have been able to accomplish in the past few years. It is time to celebrate our 70th year with a wonderful banquet party. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss a thing. Enjoy yourself. I look forward to meeting you.

With Kindest Regards,

Kathryn Proctor Duax, President National Association of Teachers of Singing

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Kurt Ollmann

Hal Leonard Vocal Competition, and Joan Boytim presents her newest publication

Free music for all who attend while supplies last HAL LEONARD POTPOURRI THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

Bravo! Brava! • a Debussy song never before published • an excerpt from a new song cycle by Rufus Wainwright Brav-one! Brav-all!

SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom D–E presented by Richard Walters performances by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Stolen and Beverly O’Regan Thiele Performances from recent publications including…

HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, SILVER LEVEL GRAND SPONSOR ABENJAMIN video documentary on the THE REGISTRATION BAGS BRITTEN FOR Hal Leonard Vocal Competition,

• songs by Corigliano, Korngold, Bolcom and Sondheim Kurt Ollmann

SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom D-E and Joan Boytim presents her newest publication Performances of selections from… • song cycleswhile and sets Free music for all who attend supplies last • folksong arrangements presented by Richard Walters GRAND OPENING RECEPTION CO-SPONSORS REFRESHMENT BREAK SPONSORS performances by Kurt Ollmann,Britten Steven Stolen and O’Regan Thiele Plus, a Benjamin “Power PointBeverly documentary” NATS Region American Academy of Teachers of Singing featuring filmGreat clips, Lakes historic recordings, quotations from Britten’s letters, and photos of the composer NATS New England Region NATS Boston Chapter

NATS North Central Region music forBIRTHDAY, allRegion who attend while supplies last HAPPY 100th NATSFree Intermountain BENJAMIN BRITTEN NATS Northwest Regionby Richard Walters presented

NATS Cal-Western Region NATS Mid-South Region

SUNDAY, JULY 1,by1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom performances Kurt Ollmann, Steven StolenD-E and Beverly O’Regan Thiele of selections from… SPONSORS NATS Performances ARTIST AWARDS (NATSAA)

• song cycles and sets Visit us in the Exhibition Hall! • folksong arrangements

NATIONAL STUDENT AUDITIONS SPONSORS

Plus, a Benjamin Britten “Power Point documentary” featuring film clips, historic recordings, quotations from Britten’s letters, FOUNDATION and photos of the composer NSA PRIZE SPONSORS: Mid-Atlantic Region

Free music for all who attend while supplies last presented by Richard Walters performances by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Stolen and Beverly O’Regan Thiele

NATIONAL MUSIC SPONSORS Visit THEATER us in the COMPETITION Exhibition Hall!

NATS Ontario Chapter In honor of Martha Randall, Past President of NATS, by the MD/DC Chapter

Proud to Support The National Association of Teachers of S Institutional Solutions Group Yamaha of America Co-SponsorCorporation of Thomas Hampson Concert

at Jordan Hall

Louise Lerch Award (Sponsored by Jolie Stratton)

Practice room pianos

usa.yamaha.com • wstraiton@yamaha.com

We are grateful for the involvement and support of our sponsors which make it possible for us to provide excellent programs and guest artists for this conference event, as well as support for our competitions. *Sponsors listed are as of June 6, 2014.

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WELCOME TO BOSTON! Welcome from Christopher Arneson, Program Chair, NATS 53rd Conference in Boston I am pleased to welcome you to the great city of Boston, host of the National Association of Teachers of Singing’s 2014 National Conference. This year marks the 53rd occasion for the conference, which is the most prominent venue for singing teachers and voice professionals from around the world to share information and ideas and cultivate novel approaches to the teaching of singing. Attendees to this year’s conference will be certain to find thoughtprovoking plenary sessions and relevant papers, posters, and workshops. Our venue for this year’s conference is the Boston Marriott Copley Place, a destination of choice in one of America’s most historic cities. Boston hosts Christopher Arneson Conference Program Chair over 12 million annual visitors from across the country and around the globe. This thriving city is renowned for its cultural facilities, world-class educational institutions, champion sports franchises, as well as its place at the very forefront of American history. Internationally renowned singer Thomas Hampson and teacher Laura Brooks Rice will present master classes this year. Choose from the wide variety of breakout sessions that will address everything from pop and rock music with knowledgeable teachers in the industry, to voice medicine with Boston’s own world renowned doctors, Stephen Zeitels and Robert Hillman. We encourage you to take advantage of all that the 2014 conference has to offer, from the myriad cultural attractions to the many opportunities for networking, mentoring, and professional enrichment. As always, the conference will also provide ample opportunity for catching up with friends and colleagues.

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Again, a warm welcome to everyone. I look forward to meeting you all.

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Kathryn Proctor Duax NATS President

Christopher Arneson

Conference Program Chair

Thomas Enman

Leslie Goldberg

Conference Coordinating Committee Chair

Donna Ames

NATSAA Coordinator

Volunteer Coordinator

Richard Weidlich

Dan Johnson Wilmot

Guest Artist Coordinator

Susan Sandrol Jones Volunteer At Large

Norman Spivey

NATS President Elect

Volunteer At Large

Leslie Holmes

Volunteer At Large

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Donald Simonson

NATS Past President

Carole Blankenship

NATS Vice President of NATSAA

Noel Smith

Singers/Pianists Coordinator

Cindy Dewey

Volunteer At Large

John Nix

Poster Paper Session Coordinator

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMITTEE On behalf of the national and local members of the conference planning committee, I welcome you all to the NATS 2014 National Conference! This week, we present to you a superb, multi-faceted conference program featuring outstanding clinicians, singers, and programs all designed to showcase stimulating new ideas, develop new skills and knowledge, help you to become more imaginative in teaching, and inspire you to share and explore new areas in music. Importantly, this week will present opportunities to network and meet new people. In addition to attending a broad variety of Leslie Goldberg programs, master classes, lectures, poster sessions, publisher showcases, and Coordinating Committee Chair exhibit offerings, you will have many opportunities to meet and make new friends. I hope you will be able to reconnect with colleagues from across the country and visit with former classmates, teachers, and students. As you enlarge your network of professional contacts, you will be able to exchange and share ideas and discuss future prospects for creative projects. This is one of the most valuable parts of any conference. The setting for our conference is the cosmopolitan and historic city of Boston, renowned for its beauty, walkability, good food, and interesting neighborhoods. No less enticing are the New England coastline and Cape Cod, both world-renowned vacation destinations. Perhaps most exciting to musicians is the sophisticated Boston musical scene, whose iconic concert halls host a variety of classical music, jazz, opera, and early music. I hope that while you are in our wonderful city you will take advantage of some of the many activities, musical and otherwise, it has to offer. As I complete my term of office as New England Region Governor this month, I would like to say that it has been my great honor and a pleasure to serve NATS at the national and regional levels. NATS seeks to be a source of continued education and support to all of us throughout our careers; we are truly blessed to have extraordinary people to run it, both on the executive board and in the national office. I am particularly grateful to have worked with Allen Henderson, our executive director, and Deborah Guess, our director of operations, as well as the staff of our national office during the past four years. I would like to thank my colleagues and our many volunteers from the New England chapters and their students, whose participation is so important to the success of this 53rd National Conference. Thank you for joining us in Boston this year. I wish you an inspiring and memorable week in which you are enriched and refreshed by music and song. Welcome!

Leslie Goldberg Coordinating Committee Chair

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2014 All Day 9 am-7 pm 10:30 am-2:30 pm 10:30 am 11 am-12 pm 12-4 pm 12-4 pm

Pre-Conference Event: Boston Trolley Tours ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Lobby ...........1st NATS Foundation Board Meeting ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Tremont ...........1st Pre-Conference Event: Spirit of Boston Lunch Cruise (Bus transportation loads at hotel at 9:30 a.m.) .................................................................................Boston Marina NATS Artist Awards Semifinalist Meeting ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th NATS Artist Awards Judges Meeting ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Nantucket ..........4th Competition: NATS Artist Awards Semifinals (NATSAA).............................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th Early Registration Open ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Foyer ..........4th

SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2014 8 am-5 pm 8:30-11:30 am 9 am-1 pm 9 am-1 pm 9 am-1 pm 10 am-4 pm 10 am-12 pm 1-4 pm 2-2:30 pm 2:30-4 pm 4-5:30 pm 5-8 pm 5:30 pm 5:30-7 pm 7:30-10:30 pm 9:30 pm

Registration Open ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Foyer ..........4th NATS Foundation Board Meeting ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Tremont ...........1st Pre-Conference Workshop: Pop/Rock Singers’ Performance – Matthew Edwards ...........................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th Pre-Conference Workshop: The Pedagogy of Pedagogy – Stephen Austin.........................................................................................................................................................Salon A-D ..........4th Pre-Conference Workshop: A Collaborative Approach to Releasing Tongue and Jaw Tension: Foot to Head.....................................Back Bay Meeting Rooms ..........3rd – Jodi Barth, Gincy Stezar, & Martha Randall Exhibition Hall Setup by Exhibitors...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Exhibit Hall ..........3rd Competition: National Music Theater Competition Semifinals.........................................................................................................................................................................................Salon H-K ..........4th Competition: National Music Theater Competition Semifinals - continued ...........................................................................................................................................................Salon H-K ..........4th Official Event: Opening Ceremony - 53rd National Conference ..........................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th Plenary Session: Master Class – Laura Brooks Rice .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th Pop/Rock Panel – VP Boyle, Melissa Cross, & Sheri Sanders.................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th Exhibit Hall Open ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Exhibit Hall ..........3rd Grand Opening of Exhibit Hall..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Exhibit Hall ..........3rd Grand Opening Reception...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Exhibit Hall ..........3rd Competition: NATS Artist Awards Finals (NATSAA) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th NATSAA Finals Intermission Refreshment Break..............................................................................................................................................................................................................Ballroom Foyer ..........4th

SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014 7-8 am 8 am-5 pm 8-8:45 am 9-10 am

10 am-6 pm 10 am-4 pm 10-10:30 am 10:30 am-12 pm 12:10-12:55 pm 1:10-1:55 pm 12-2 pm 12-2 pm 2-3:30 pm 3:30-6:30 pm 4-5:15 pm 5:30-6:30 pm

Early Morning Session-Pilates – Penny Crochiere...........................................................................................................................................................................................................Provincetown ..........4th Registration Open ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Foyer ..........4th Publisher Showcase: Authentic Bel Canto – Valerie Larsen................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon A-D ..........4th Breakout Sessions: – Applied Vocal Acoustic Pedagogy – Kenneth Bozeman.......................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon F ..........4th – A Developmental Look at SINGING: It’s Never Too Late or Too Early! .......................................................................................................................................................................Arlington ..........3rd – Jeanne Goffi-Fynn, Lori McCann, Felicity Graham, & Karie Brown – Collaborative Pianist Panel: dentifying and Encouraging Collaborative Piano Talent in the Voice Studio ................................................................................Salon H-K ..........4th – Margo Garrett, Donna Loewy, & Elvia Puccinelli – Practical Guide for Working with Voice Disorders – Kari Ragan..................................................................................................................................................................................Salon A-D ..........4th – A Career Guide for the Professional Chorister: ...................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Meeting Rooms ..........3rd Cross-Training Our Vocal Athletes for the Current Marketplace – Jay White Exhibit Hall Open ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Exhibit Hall ..........3rd Competition: National Student Auditions - Semifinals............................................................................................................................................ Off-site at the Boston Conservatory Refreshment Break ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Foyer ..........3rd Plenary Session: Voice Science Session I – Robert Hillman & Steven Zeitels..........................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th Publisher Showcase: New Materials from Inside View Press – Scott McCoy............................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th Publisher Showcase: Broadway Stars Sing Sondheim – Kate Baldwin, Andrew Lippa & Richard Walters ....................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th Poster Papers Session 1 – Introduced by John Nix, Poster Papers Coordinator ......................................................................................................Back Bay Meeting Rooms ..........3rd Leadership Luncheon (by invitation only) ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon G ....... 4th Plenary Session: Voice Science Session II – Robert Hillman & Steven Zeitels .......................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ....... 4th DCINY Auditions – Presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York ......................................................................................................................................Vermont ....... 5th Recital: 2012 NATSAA Winner Recital – Andrew Garland, baritone; Donna Loewy, piano ..........................................................................................................................Salon F ....... 4th Breakout Sessions: – The Performer Within: A Movement-Based Performance Pedagogy – Sean McCarther................................................................................Back Bay Meeting Rooms ....... 3rd – Conducting Annual Voice Screenings in the Academic Setting: Establishing a Baseline for the Healthy, Methods ..........................................................Arlington ....... 3rd for Identifying the Dysphonic, and Educating Those at Risk – Emily Wolber Scheuring & Robert Wells

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE 6:30-7:45 pm 8-10:30 pm 9:30 pm

– So You Want to Sing: A New Book Series – Karen Hall, Matthew Edwards, Jan Shapiro, & Allen Henderson ....................................................................Salon H-K ........4th – Boston Song Composers - Past and Present – D’Anna Fortunato & John McDonald............................................................................................................................Salon A-D ....... 4th – Collaborative Coaching – Margo Garrett ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon F ....... 4th President's Reception (by invitation only)...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon G ....... 4th Competition: National Music Theater Competition Finals .......................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ....... 4th Concert: 2012 National Music Theater Competition Winner – Jacob Keith Watson .........................................................................................................................................Salon EF ....... 4th

MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014 7-8 am 8-8:45 am 8:30 am-4:30 pm 9-10 am

10 am-6 pm 10 am-12 pm 10 am-1 pm 10-10:30 am 10:30 am-12 pm 12-2 pm 12-2 pm 12-2 pm 12:15-1:30 pm 1-4 pm 1:15-2 pm 2-3:30 pm 3:30-4 pm 4-5 pm

5:30-6:15 pm 8 pm

Early Morning Session-Pilates – Penny Crochiere ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................Provincetown ....... 4th Publisher Showcase: The Life of a Singing Road Warrior – Matthew Oltman ..............................................................................................................................................................Salon F ....... 4th Registration Open ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Foyer ....... 4th Breakout Sessions: – Rock the Audition: How to Prepare For and Get Cast in Rock Musicals – Sheri Sanders...................................................................................................................................Salon F ....... 4th – Beyond Communication: Using Lyric Diction in the Voice Studio as a Path to Technical Freedom– Eric Rieger ............................Back Bay Meeting Rooms ....... 3rd – Training “Mr. Soprano” and “Ms. Tenor” - Gender-Neutral Voice Pedagogy – Robert Edwin....................................................................................................................Salon H-K ....... 4th – Valuing the Voice of Diversity – Christopher Correlli ................................................................................................................................................................................................................Arlington ....... 3rd – American Art Song: Major Trends of the Past 100 Years – Robin Fisher, Ruth C. Friedberg, & Donna Loewy ................................................................................Salon A-D ....... 4th Exhibit Hall Open ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Exhibit Hall ....... 3rd Competition: National Student Auditions Final - Lower Divisions .................................................................................................................................................................................Salon H-K ....... 4th DCINY Auditions – Presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York......................................................................................................................................................Vermont ....... 5th Refreshment Break ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Foyer ....... 3rd Plenary Session: Stepping on Stage - Pop/Rock Music Theater – Sheri Sanders, Melissa Cross, & VP Boyle ..........................................................................................Salon EF ....... 4th Poster Papers Session 2 – Introduced by John Nix, Poster Papers Coordinator ...................................................................................................................Back Bay Meeting Rooms ....... 3rd JOS Editorial Board Luncheon...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................St. Botolph ......2nd Intern Program Reunion (by invitation only) ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Tremont ........1st Master Class with Andrew Lippa – Sponsored by Hal Leonard Corporation..................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ....... 4th Competition: National Student Auditions Final - Upper Divisions & Awards (Awards for lower divisions announced between Upper Divisions) .....Salon H-K ....... 4th Publisher Showcase: A Taste of Estill Voice Training™...............................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon A-D ....... 4th Plenary Session: Master Class with Margo Garrett ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ....... 4th Art Song Composition Award Winner ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ....... 4th Breakout Sessions: – Standard Pedagogy and Technique for the Female Belt Voice – Richard Lissemore ....................................................................................................................................Salon A-D ..........4th – Women Teaching Men - Taking the Mystery Out of Voice Pedagogy for Male Singers – Carla LeFevre & Nancy Walker.............Back Bay Meeting Rooms ..........3rd – Facing Forward/Looking Back: ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon F ..........4th Exploring Themes of Self and Relationship in the Songs of Jake Heggie – Jake Heggie, Lauren McNeese, Elvia Puccinelli, & Jennifer Youngs – Vocal Landmines Confronting the Contemporary Commercial Singer - Professional Singer, Young Singer,...........................................................................Salon H-K ..........4th and Avocational Singer – Lucinda Halstead & Deanna McBroom – Informed Copyright Behavior for Teachers of Singing in the 21st Century – Stephen Wood & Emily Toronto...........................................................................Arlington ..........3rd Publisher Showcase: MusicalTheaterSongs.com - The Right Song, Right Now – Presented by Steven Gross ...............................................................................Salon A-D ..........4th Featured Artist Concert: Thomas Hampson Concert ..............................................................................................................................Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 7-8 am 8-8:45 am 8:30 am-3:30 pm 9 am-12 pm 9-10 am

10-10:30 am 10:30 am-12 pm

Early Session-Pilates – Penny Crochiere ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Provincetown ..........4th Publisher Showcase: Raise Your Body IQ: It Takes Your Whole Body to Support Your Whole Voice – Presented by Ruth Williams Hennessy ........Salon A-D ..........4th Registration Open ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Foyer ..........4th Exhibit Hall Open - Last chance to visit......................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Exhibit Hall ..........3rd Breakout Sessions: – What Mental Skills Do Performers Need and How Do They Get Them? – Diana Allan ......................................................................................Back Bay Meeting Rooms ..........3rd – Singing Our History: A Representation of American History in American Art Song – Judith E. Carman, Rita Resch, ....................................................Salon H-K ..........4th Abra Bush, Quinn Patrick Ankrum, Andrew Blosser, David Grogan, & Stella Roden – A Lifetime of Singing: Choral/Vocal Techniques and Expectations for Healthy Singing at Every Age – Karen Brunssen & Julia Davids ........Salon A-D ..........4th – CCM Voice Pedagogy and the Singing Voice Teacher – Matthew Edwards, David Meyer, & Kathryn Green ............................................................................Salon F ..........4th – Special Needs Panel – Kathryn Proctor Duax, Lisa Thorson, & Leslie Hunter ................................................................................................................................................Arlington ..........3rd Refreshment Break ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Foyer ..........3rd Plenary Session: Master Class with Thomas Hampson ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE 12-2 pm 12-2 pm 12-3 pm 12:10-12:55 pm 1:10-1:55 pm 2-3:30 pm 3:30-4:30 pm 4-5 pm

5-5:45 pm 7:30-11 pm

Poster Papers Session 3 – Introduced by John Nix, Poster Papers Coordinator.......................................................................................................Back Bay Meeting Rooms ..........3rd SNATS Gathering (by invitation only).......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Boylston ...........1st Exhibit Hall Breakdown and Move Out .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................Back Bay Exhibit Hall ..........3rd Publisher Showcase: Resonance: A Comprehensive Voice Series - An Inside Look – Robert Loewen ................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th Publisher Showcase: Discover Music Together Family Classes – Lisa Griffith......................................................................................................................................................Salon A-D ..........4th Plenary Session: Thomas Hampson Lecture/Q&A..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th JOS Editorial Board Q&A – Editor Richard Sjoerdsma, Journal of Singing ..................................................................................................................................................Provincetown ..........4th Breakout Sessions: – The ‘Screen Invasion’: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age – Lynn Helding ........................................................................................................................................Salon H-K ..........4th – The Dynamic Classroom: Creating an Engaging Learning Environment for Voice Related Studies.........................................................Back Bay Meeting Rooms ..........3rd – Cheri Montgomery – American Academy of Teachers of Singing: In Support of Fact-Based Voice Pedagogy and Terminology.....................................................................................Salon G ..........4th – Martha Randall, Robert Edwin, Brian Horne, Karen Brunssen, & Margaret Cusack – Authenticity in the Performance of Spirituals and Songs of Hall Johnson – Donnie Ray Albert ....................................................................................................Salon A-D ..........4th – From Boys to Men: Keeping Boys Singing into Adulthood - A Panel Discussion – Rollo Dilworth, Murray Kidd, ............................................................Arlington ..........3rd Patrick Freer, Aaron Humble, Lynn Shane, & Joseph Stillitano Publisher Showcase: Sing with the Best – Adam Kirkpatrick ...........................................................................................................................................................................................Salon A-D ....... 4th Official Event: 70th Anniversary Gala Banquet .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon EF ..........4th Featuring the nationally recognized high-energy White Heat Swing Orchestra - Dinner Buffet & Dancing Special Guest and Honoree: George Shirley

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014 9-10:30 am

National Business Meeting & Installation of Officers.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................Salon E ..........4th

*Program schedule subject to change as needed.

Katherine Osborne awarded 2014 Van Lawrence Fellowship Congratulations to Katherine Osborne. She was awarded the 2014 Van Lawrence Award given jointly by the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and The Voice Foundation. More information here. Miss Osborne has a Master of Voice Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College and is currently in the Doctor of Musical Arts program, Singing Health Specialization, at Ohio State University. About the Van Lawrence Fellowship: The amount of the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship award is determined annually by The Voice Foundation and National Association of Teachers of Singing Foundation. The funds are to be used to defray expenses for the Fellowship winner to attend the annual Symposium on Care of the Professional Voice (tuition shall be waived). Following the Symposium, the Fellow will be provided with the opportunity to visit laryngologists, speech pathologists, voice scientists, and research centers associated with The Voice Foundation during the fellowship year. Specific locations and durations of stay will be arranged in accordance with the Fellow's interests and needs and the availability of the centers to be visited.

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Katherine Osborne Application deadline for 2015 award Nov. 15, 2014 Learn more at nats.org

The 21st Century Voice Teacher: RE-TOOLING, RE-TUNING, RE-TURNING TO BASICS

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Early Registration Deadline: November 1, 2014 Kathleen Arecchi, Vice President for Workshops Lloyd Mims, Local Coordinator For more information www.visit NATS.org

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Not in New York? Not a Problem. Available On Demand from the comfort of your own home or office, 24/7: Vocal Anatomy and Physiology with Dr. Scott McCoy - This user friendly course offers a detailed exploration of the major physiological systems of the singing voice. Muscular systems and topics covered include: Respiration, Phonation, Articulation, Laryngeal Function, and Resonance.

Voice Acoustics and Resonance with Dr. Scott McCoy - NATS President Dr. Scott McCoy makes this topic easy to understand for all levels. Includes the nature of sound, acoustics and resonance of the speaking and singing voice, practical applications of acoustics and resonance in the singing voice, and, an introduction to computerized voice analysis (Mac or PC). Vocal Health for Voice Professionals - Dr. Peak Woo leads a team of renowned voice doctors and clinicians as they guide you through a detailed exploration of vocal health issues relevant to singers and teachers of singing. Addresses vocal fold injury, including the mechanisms of vocal pathologies, diagnosis and treatment. Nodules, polyps, edema, reflux, and hemorrhage are also covered. Enables teachers to advise students on vocal hygiene, recognize the necessity of medical intervention, be conversant with commonly used drugs for performers, and be able to participate as part of the medical treatment team in the rehabilitation of the singing voice.

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Comparative Pedagogy - Six master-teachers of various styles and techniques present teaching demonstrations. Dr. Scott McCoy offers an Anatomy and Acoustics Review, and, Dr. Marvin Keenze of Westminster Choir College concludes with a Comparative Pedagogy session to make concrete links between various teaching strategies and the scientific and medical information covered in earlier courses. Each teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style, language, concepts and exercises are examined and compared. Many people take this course every year as new teachers are presented. (Marvin Keenze pictured)

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Monday, July 7, 8:00 AM in Salon F on the fourth floor Former member and Music Director Emeritus of Chanticleer, Matt Oltman, will provide insights, tips and a few amusing anecdotes culled from his 13 years touring with the ensemble.

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PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAM FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2014

SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom

Performances from recent publications includin

• a Debussy song never before published • an excerpt from a new song cycle by Rufus Wain • songs by Corigliano, Korngold, Bolcom and Sond Kurt Ollmann

Pre-Conference Event All Day

9 am-7 pm

Boston Trolley Tours Trolley runs all day and picks up in front of hotel. NATS Foundation Board Meeting Brian Horne, NATS Foundation President, presiding

A video documentary on the Hal Leonard Vocal Competition, and Joan Boytim presents her newest publicatio

musicat forhotel all who.....Lobby attend while supplies la Trolley Free Station

presented by Richard Walters performances by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Stolen and Beverly O

Tremont ......... 1st

HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, BRITTEN HotelBENJAMIN Lobby / Marina

Pre-Conference Event

10:30 am-2:30 pm Spirit of Boston Lunch Cruise SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom D-E Pre-purchased tickets are required. Bus transportation loads in the hotel lobby at 9:30 a.m. 10:30 am 11 am-12 pm

Competition

12-4 pm

NATS Artist Awards Semifinalist Meeting Carole Blankenship, Vice President for NATS Artist Awards, presiding

Performances of selections from… • song cyclesEF and..........4th sets Salon • folksong arrangements

Plus, a Benjamin Britten “Power Point documentary”

NATS Artist Awards Judges Meeting ..........4th featuring film clips, historicNantucket recordings, quotations from Britten’s lett and photos of the composer Carole Blankenship, Vice President for NATS Artist Awards, presiding Free music for all who attend while supplies last

presented by Richard Walters NATS Artist Awards Semifinals (NATSAA) Salon EF ..........4th performances by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Stolen and Beverly O’Regan Th Introduced by Carole Blankenship, Vice President for NATS Artist Awards

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12-4 pm

Early Registration Open

Foyer ..........4th

SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2014 8 am-5 pm 8:30-11:30 am

Registration Open

Foyer ..........4th

NATS Foundation Board Meeting Brian Horne, NATS Foundation President, presiding

Tremont .......... 1st

Pre-Conference Workshop 9 am-1 pm

Pop/Rock Singers’ Performance Salon EF ..........4th Matthew Edwards – Introduced by Allen Henderson Singing pop/rock consistently and effectively requires a unique skill set. Vocal technique and communication are of course important, but even the best singer can sound like an amateur if they don’t have the proper equipment. For many decades, audio enhancement has been used in the production of commercial recordings. The audio effects used to create the final product have changed the way the public experiences the singing voice. In order to produce results that meet audience expectations, voice teachers must now include audio technology in their lessons. This workshop will show participants how audio enhancement affects what we hear, how to put together an audio system for your studio, and how to use that equipment in a private lesson. Teachers will return to their studios with specific techniques that go beyond singing with feeling.

Pre-Conference Workshop 9 am-1 pm

The Pedagogy of Pedagogy Salon A-D ..........4th Stephen Austin – Introduced by Christopher Arneson If you teach voice pedagogy or related courses, this will be a workshop you do not want to miss! It is one thing to have the knowledge and be a good voice teacher, but what about teaching the next generation how to teach voice? Want to engage young minds with your passion for voice science and its practical application? Need to re-imagine your pedagogy course(s)? How can you make the case for more courses related to voice science in your degree programs? What about undergraduate versus graduate level courses? Need syllabus ideas? Join Stephen Austin as he leads participants through the process of discovering best practices in the teaching of voice pedagogy. #NATSinBoston

THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER Francis Scott Key (1814)

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

CANADIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM: O CANADA! Robert Stanely Weir (English text, 1908), Calixa Lavale (Music, 1880)

O CANADA!

NOTRE HYMNE NATIONAL

Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free! From far and wide, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada! Terre de nos aïeux, Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux! Car ton bras sait porter l’épée, Il sait porter la croix! Ton histoire est une épopée Des plus brillants exploits. Et ta valeur, de foi trempée, Protégera nos foyers et nos droits. Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.

AN DIE MUSIK Franz Schubert (1817) Text by Franz von Schober

Du holde Kunst, in wievel grauen Stunden, Wo mich des Lebens wilder Kreis umstrickt, Hast du mein Herz zu warmer Lieb entzünden, Hast mich in eine bessrer Welt entrückt! in eine bessrer Welt entrückt Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf entflossen, Ein süsser, heiliger Akkord von dir Den Himmel bessrer Zeiten mir erschlossen, Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür, Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir! #NATSinBoston

OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY

53 NATIONAL CONFERENCE RD

N AT I O N A L A S S O C I AT I O N O F T E A C H E R S O F S I N G I N G

SATURDAY, JULY 5 2 pm

Conference Opening Ceremony â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Salon EF Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kathryn Proctor Duax, President Call to Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kathryn Proctor Duax, President The Star Spangled Banner - See text on page 19 Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) O Canada - See text on page 19 Adolphe-Basile Routhier (French text, 1880) Robert Stanley Weir (English text, 1908) Calixa Lavale (Music, 1880) Scott McCoy, conductor | Marvin Keenze, piano Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathryn Proctor Duax, President Past Presidents; International Attendees; Special Guests Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leslie Goldberg, Coordinating Committee Chair Conference Orientation . . . . . . . . . . Christopher Arneson, Program Chair An die Musik . . . . . . . . . . . . Franz Schubert (1797-1828); Text by Schober Scott McCoy, conductor | Marvin Keenze, piano See text on page 19

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SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom D– Performances from recent publications including…

DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE

• a Debussy song never before published • an excerpt from a new song cycle by Rufus Wainwri • songs by Corigliano, Korngold, Bolcom and Sondhei A video documentary on the Hal Leonard Vocal Competition, and Joan Boytim presents her newest publication

Kurt Ollmann

SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2014

Free music for all who attend while supplies last

Pre-Conference Workshop 9am-1 pm

10 am-4 pm

Competitions 10 am-12 pm 1-4 pm

presented by Richard Walters

A Collaborative Approach to Releasing Tongue Back Bay Meeting Rooms 3rdBeverly O’Re performances by Kurt Ollmann, Steven......... Stolen and and Jaw Tension: Foot to Head Jodi Barth, Gincy Stezar, & Martha Randall – Introduced by Kathleen Arecchi This voice teacher/physical therapist team has received rave reviews in their work at several NATS Intern Programs 100th as well as BIRTHDAY, other conferences. HAPPY Barth and Stezar have found that the feet often play an important role in jaw and tongue tension, and Randall has found that adding vocalization BENJAMIN BRITTEN JULYand 1, 1:00-1:45, Ballroom D-E during and after a variety of prescribed physical stretches improves ease of production as well asSUNDAY, increases pitch dynamic Crystal range. This workshop will include basic knowledge, self diagnostics, case studies from the audience, guided hands-on trainingPerformances in small groups,ofpractical suggestions selections from… • song apply cyclestoand regarding topics such as performance footwear, and Q & A. You will leave with specific strategies you can immediately yoursetswork. • folksong arrangements Exhibition Hall Setup by Exhibitors

BayBritten Exhibit 3rd Plus, Back a Benjamin “PowerHall Point......... documentary” featuring film clips, historic recordings, quotations from Britten’s letters, and photos of the composer

National Music Theater Competition Semifinals Salon H-K ......... 4th Free music for all who attend while supplies last Introduced by Donald Simonson, NATS Past President and NMTC Coordinator presented by Richard Walters

performances by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Beverly O’Regan Thiele National Music Theater Competition Semifinals - continued SalonStolen H-Kand ......... 4th Introduced by Donald Simonson, NATS Past President and NMTC Coordinator Visit us in the Exhibition Hall!

Two Exciting Hal Leonard Showc Official Event 2-2:30 pm

Plenary Session

HAL LEONARD POTPOURR Salon EF ......... 4th

Opening Ceremony - 53rd National Conference Kathryn Proctor Duax, NATS President

SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom

Performances from recent publications including

• a Debussy song never before published • an excerpt from a new song cycle by Rufus Wain Salon EFKorngold, ......... Bolcom 4th and Sond • songs by Corigliano,

2:30-4 pm

Master Class Laura Brooks Rice – Introduced by Kathryn Proctor Duax A video documentary on the KurtLaura Ollmann Tired of clinicians who dance around technical issues when working with singers? We hear you! Brooks Rice will work with a variety Hal Leonard Vocal Competition, andand Joanis Boytim presents of singers and specifically address technical issues. Rice teaches at Westminster Choir College, The Curtis Institute, co-director of theher newest publicatio CoOPERAtive Program. Free music for all who attend while supplies la

4-5:30 pm

presented Richard Walters Pop/Rock Panel Salon EFby.........4th VP Boyle, Melissa Cross & Sheri Sanders – Introduced by Christopherperformances Arneson by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Stolen and Beverly O Join these industry experts in a discussion about the unique aspects of Pop /Rock Music Theater and where this sub-genre is headed.

5-8 pm 5:30 pm 5:30-7 pm

Competition

7:30-10:30 pm

9:30 pm

Exhibit Hall Open

Back Bay Exhibit .........3rd HAPPY 100thHall BIRTHDAY,

Grand Opening of Exhibit Hall Introduced by Kathryn Proctor Duax, NATS President

BENJAMIN BRITTEN Back Bay Exhibit Hall .........3rd

SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom D-E Performances of selections from…

• song cycles and.........3rd sets Grand Opening Reception Back Bay Exhibit Hall • folksong arrangements Sponsored by NATS Great Lakes Region, NATS New England Region Plus, a Benjamin Britten “Power Point documentary” NATS North Central Region, NATS Intermountain Region, and NATS Northwestern Region

featuring film clips, historic recordings, quotations from Britten’s lett and photos of the composer

NATSAA 2014

43rd NATS Artist Awards Competition for Singers Free music for all who attend supplies last NATS Artist Awards Finals (NATSAA) Salon EFwhile .........4th Introduced by Carole Blankenship, Vice President for NATS Artist Awards presented by Richard Walters

NATSAA Finals Intermission Refreshment Break

performances by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Stolen and Beverly O’Regan Th

Ballroom Foyer .........4th

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014 7-8 am Early Morning Session-Pilates Penny Crochiere Introduced by Kathryn Proctor Duax Join pilates instructor to NATS President Kathryn Proctor Duax for morning pilates sessions. Work that core! 8 am-5 pm Registration Open

Provincetown ......... 4th

Foyer ......... 4th

Publisher Showcase

8-8:45 am Authentic Bel Canto Salon A-D ......... 4th The Origins, Practical Application, And Legacy of a Disappearing Art Form Presenter: Valerie Larsen Bel Canto, the study of the art of singing as founded on the school of Niccolo Porpora, is Italian for “beautiful singing.” With a pedagogy line three steps from its founder, Ewan Harbrecht Mitton has made it her life’s work to study, master, and teach this method. At the urging of her vocal students to write down what she was teaching them about this disappearing art, she hopes to pass on this legacy to generations of future vocal teachers and students. “The exercises, combined with sound recordings demonstrating qualities of tone and of true, pure vowels and their migration in the scale, are a uniquely modern contribution in the study of the art of singing, as founded on the school of Porpora, bravura as “bel canto” and taught in the late twentieth centuries by Giovanni Sbriglia in Paris, with whom I studied.” - Ruth Miller Chamlee Coach, Mentor, and Friend of the Author Join us for the presentation of the Instructional Review and Vocalises that comprise the new publication Authentic Bel Canto, by Ewan Harbrecht Mitton, as presented by her granddaughter and lifelong student, Valerie Larsen.

Breakout Sessions

9-10 am Applied Vocal Acoustic Pedagogy Salon F ......... 4th Kenneth Bozeman Introduced by Richard Sjoerdsma Awareness of the acoustic events caused by the interactions of voice source harmonics with vocal tract formants can form the basis of a coherent acoustic pedagogy. Knowledge of the specific roles of formants, the acoustic characteristics of open, close, yell, and whoop timbres, the ways in which F1, F2, and singer’s formant cluster are tuned, and the typical pattern of first formant locations is essential to implementing effective acoustic pedagogic strategies. This session will present that information in a deliberately user-friendly format and demonstrate its application with student singers. A Developmental Look at SINGING: It’s Never Too Late or Too Early! Arlington ......... 3rd Jeanne Goffi-Fynn, Lori McCann, Felicity Graham, & Karie Brown Introduced by Robert Wells This session will look developmentally at the voice. Beginning with the very young voice, an investigation of the literature is synthesized and practical examples and solutions to vocal issues are suggested. The presentation will continue with the unchanged voice and changing voice. Further considerations will be given to the undergraduate college voice student with suggestions for development and assessment, both long and short term. A look at the adult beginner and the uniqueness of this student is next, and finally, the presentation will conclude with the mature voice and issues that arise after 50. Collaborative Pianist Panel: Identifying and Encouraging Salon H-K ......... 4th Collaborative Piano Talent in the Voice Studio Margo Garrett, Donna Loewy, & Elvia Puccinelli Introduced by Allen Henderson Join these three prominent collaborative pianists as they discuss ways the voice teacher can identify and nurture talented young pianists to develop their partnership skills and share with us appropriate ways for voice teachers to mentor talented piano majors who show potential as coaches. What different kinds of coaches are there and how are they trained? What kind of professional possibilities there are for these coaches? As NATS welcomes more and more collaborative pianists as members, how can coaches relate and grow from the experience of being co-members with singing teachers? These topics and more will be addressed and discussed thoroughly.

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014 Breakout Sessions

9-10 am Practical Guide for Working with Voice Disorders Salon A-D ......... 4th Kari Ragan Introduced by Craig Tompkins What fundamental understanding should all teachers of voice have when working with an injured singer in the voice studio? Understanding what to listen for within the speaking and singing voice is crucial to teachers who are on the front line of vocal health. Learn concrete steps you can take to design a protocol to help habilitate the singing voice and gain more understanding in the special approach required for each lesson with regard to vocalizes and repertoire. A Career Guide for the Professional Chorister: Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd Cross-Training Our Vocal Athletes for the Current Marketplace Two Exciting Hal Leonard Showcases Jay White Introduced by Laurie Lashbrook As the world of performance opportunities for singers continues to expand and diversify, members of NATS are poised to be leaders in facilitating changes in the field. Traditional practices of maintaining distinct, and sometimes separate, instruction for styles within Contemporary Commercial HAL LEONARD POTPOURRI Music (CCM) and bel canto, as well as instruction for similar styles in ensemble have Crystal morphedBallroom into a more SATURDAY, JUNErepertoire, 30, 1:00-1:45, D–Euniversal approach. As a direct result of such diversity, a rise in the success of singers creating viable careers in professional choruses has occurred in the past 10 years. This session Performances from recent publications including… will point out how we can better train our students to pursue these new and exciting career opportunities. • a Debussy song never before published • an excerpt from a new song cycle byBack Rufus Wainwright Bay Exhibit Hall ......... 3rd • songs by Corigliano, Korngold, Bolcom and Sondheim

10 am-6 pm Exhibit Hall Open

10 am-4 pm National Student Auditions - Semifinals Off-site A video documentary on the at the Boston Conservatory Kurt Ollmann Hal Leonard Vocal Competition, Introduced by Deborah Williamson, NSA Coordinator (See Map on Page 99) and Joan Boytim presents her newest publication 10-10:30 am Refreshment Break Sponsored by NATS Boston Chapter

Plenary Session

Back Bay Foyer ......... 3rd

Free music for all who attend while supplies last

presented by Richard Walters performances by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Stolen and Beverly O’Regan Thiele

Salon EF ......... 4th

10:30 am-12 pm Voice Science Session I Robert Hillman & Steven Zeitels – Introduced by DD Michaels HAPPYGeneral 100th BIRTHDAY, Zeitels and Hillman of the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Hospital Voice BENJAMIN BRITTEN Center share with you some of the amazing cutting-edge researchJULY happening todayCrystal and howBallroom D-E SUNDAY, 1, 1:00-1:45, it is being used to treat singers. Performances of selections from…

Sponsored by the Shirlee Emmons/Berton Coffin Endowed Fund • song cycles and sets - established to honor both Shirlee Emmons and her mentor, Berton Coffin • folksong arrangements

Publisher Showcases

Shirlee Emmons

Berton Coffin

Plus, a Benjamin Britten “Power Point documentary” featuring film clips, historic recordings, quotations from Britten’s letters, and photos of the composer

12:10-12:55 pm New Materials from Inside View Press Salon EF ......... 4th Presented by Scott McCoy and the authors from View Press Free music for Inside all who attend while supplies last Please join Scott McCoy and the authors from Inside View Press forpresented a look at by ourRichard recent publications, including Michael Trimble’s Fundamentals of Walters Great Vocal Technique, Scott McCoy’s Your Voice: The Basics, Arneson’ s ground LiteratureThiele for Teaching. Meet the authors, performances byand KurtChristopher Ollmann, Steven Stolen and breaking Beverly O’Regan ask questions, and win free books! Visit us in the Exhibition Hall! 1:10-1:55 pm Broadway Stars Sing Sondheim Salon EF ......... 4th Presented by Hal Leonard Presenters: Kate Baldwin, Andrew Lippa, & Richard Walters A fascinating recital of songs by Stephen Sondheim celebrates the new five-volume Hal Leonard publication Sondheim for Singers. Performances by Tony-nominated Broadway star Kate Baldwin (Finian’s Rainbow, Big Fish, Wonderful Town), who has often performed with Sondheim, and noted Broadway composer/lyricist and tenor Andrew Lippa, an ardent Sondheim aficionado, who will display his considerable talents as a theatre singer. Richard Walters, editor of Sondheim for Singers, will participate as pianist and speaker.

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Vocal Studies at AUBURN UNIVERSIT Y College of Liberal Arts | Department of Music VOCAL / CHORAL ENSEMBLES OPERA WORKSHOP • OPERA CHORUS • CHAMBER CHOIR • CONCERT CHOIR • GOSPEL CHOIR • MEN’S CHORUS • CONDUCTOR’S CHORUS • WOMEN’S CHORUS • AU SINGERS •

DEGREES Bachelor of Music • Bachelor of Arts in Music • Bachelor of Music Education • Master of Education in Music Education • Specialist in Education in Music Education • Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education •

VOCAL / OPERA / CHORAL FACULTY Sara Lynn Baird, Professor and Chair Rosephanye Dunn-Powell, Professor, Vocal Area Coordinator Anne Duraski, Instructor, Opera Dale Farmer, Instructor, AU Singers Laurelie Gheesling, Collaborative Piano/Coach Matthew Hoch, Assistant Professor, Voice, Opera William Powell, Professor, Director of Choral Activities

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014 Poster Papers Session 1

Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd

Introduced by John Nix, Poster Papers Coordinator

12-2 pm Poster Title: Separate Register Development as a Means of Unifying the Female Middle Voice Presenter: Jessica E. Hann Synopsis: The purpose of this study was to observe if separate register development, as a means of unifying the female middle voice, affected glottal closure. The hypothesis suggested that separate register development would enhance glottal closure in the female middle voice as the singer invited more chest register, or thyroarytenoid-dominant production, into the balance. Results in this pilot study showed some relationship between the use of dual registration exercises and a more consistent or increased glottal closure. Poster Title: Danish Song: An Introduction to Repertoire and Diction Presenter: Anna C. Hersey Synopsis: The song repertoire of the tiny nation of Denmark is rarely heard outside of Scandinavia. This poster aims to inform listeners on Danish art songs and composers as a starting point for exploration of this repertoire. Linguistic elements and diction considerations unique to the Danish language will also be addressed, particularly as they relate to current performance practice. Poster Title: Poulenc’s Cycles for Bernac: Understanding the Baryton-Martin Through an Analysis of Six Song Cycles Presenter: Matthew Hoch Synopsis: When one examines the 41 songs that comprise Poulenc’s six cycles written for Pierre Bernac, patterns emerge which serve as an invaluable looking glass into Bernac’s voice and Poulenc’s compositional process when setting French poetry with the singer’s voice specifically in mind. The idiosyncrasies that emerge offer us insight not only into Bernac’s voice in particular, but also the general idiomatic style of the BarytonMartin, a distinctly French approach to male vocal performance. In addition to discussing Poulenc’s compositional style and Bernac’s voice, this study also provides a brief overview of the Baryton-Martin and Bernac’s position within the lineage of French male singers who are part of that tradition. Poster Title: A Comparison Study of Solfège Systems for Music Learners Presenter: Jou-Lu Hung Synopsis: This is a comparison study on the effectiveness of solfège systems for music learners. This study investigates the influence of diatonic and chromatic complexity on sight-singing pitch accuracy for music students who have trained in either the fixed-do or movable-do solfège systems. The results of this study shed light on the pros and cons of these solfège systems and can be used to guide music educators in their choice of sightsinging methods. Poster Title: Daily Voice Use by Collegiate Singers Presenter: Jorie Moss Synopsis: This paper investigated daily voice use in undergraduate and graduate singers, specifically comparing the use of vibrato vs. straight tone technique and the effect these techniques have on vocal stamina. Subjects were asked to complete a written survey, and a subsection were also asked to wear a voice dosimeter during a choral rehearsal or voice lesson to provide voice use data. It was determined that the high levels of fundamental frequency and phonation cycles indicated a high expectation on collegiate students to perform at an advanced and potentially tiring level. Poster Title: Building Better Diction, Breath Management and Legato through Stronger Consonants Presenter: Timothy Schmidt Synopsis: A methodical approach to building consonant strength and clarity without sacrificing legato, breath control, or overall resonance. Poster Title: Perceptual and Acoustical Assessment of Trained versus Non-Trained Singers Presenter: Lori Sen Synopsis: Have you ever wondered the possible effects of vocal training on certain measurable singing qualities? This study was designed to investigate some perceptual and acoustical differences between singers and non-singers and to determine the effects of vocal training on breathing, pitch-matching, and singing. Poster Title: How to Deliver Pre-College Music Theory through Text: What Colleges Really Want Presenter: Janet Soller & Karen Wallace Synopsis: The authors’ poster provides information from college music deans about music theory preparedness of incoming freshmen, especially vocal students. It also explains what music colleges want in terms of theory preparedness. The poster also provides a framework on how to teach basic theory skills through text. #NATSinBoston

DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014 Poster Papers Session 1

Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd

Introduced by John Nix, Poster Papers Coordinator 12-2 pm Poster Title: Vibrato Rate and Extent: Comparing Listeners’ Perceptions to Acoustic Measurements Name: Jennifer Weiss Synopsis: Previous research has found that when trained listeners try to evaluate vocal vibrato, their subjective judgments are not supported by acoustic measurements. This study asked trained listeners to evaluate vibrato rate and extent in a series of recordings, and compared their assessments to acoustic vibrato measurements. This study then explored whether listeners’ judgments of vibrato were affected by their judgments of vocal weight and color. Poster Title: Sergius Kagen: Resurrecting his Songs Presenter: Ann Marie Wilcox-Daehn Synopsis: Author, editor, reviewer, pianist, and Julliard professor Sergius Kagen (1909-1964) is best known for his contributions to critical editions singers use daily, but lesser known for his compositions. At this poster one may learn more about his songs which feature notable poets such as Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, Langston Hughes, and Carl Sandburg. 12-2 pm Leadership Luncheon (by invitation only) Introduced by Allen Henderson, NATS Executive Director

Plenary Session

2-3:30 pm Voice Science Session II Robert Hillman & Steven Zeitels – Introduced by DD Michaels Zeitels and Hillman of the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center share with you some of the amazing cutting edge research happening today and how it is being used to treat singers. Sponsored by the Shirlee Emmons/Berton Coffin Endowed Fund - established to honor both Shirlee Emmons and her mentor, Berton Coffin

3:30-6:30 pm DCINY Auditions Presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York

Recital

4-5:15 pm 2012 NATSAA Winner Recital Andrew Garland, baritone; Donna Loewy, piano

NATSAA 2012 42nd NATS Artist Awards Competition for Singers

Salon G ......... 4th

Salon EF ......... 4th

Shirlee Emmons

Berton Coffin

Vermont ......... 5th

Salon F ......... 4th

Breakout Session

5:30-6:30 pm The Performer Within: Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd A Movement-Based Performance Pedagogy Sean McCarther – Introduced by Anne Christopherson Body, Mind, and Voice Performance Training (BMV) is a movement-based performance pedagogy that frees the body from unnecessary tension, allows both effortless movement and easy, organic phonation, and helps students learn to actively engage their environment, their scene partners, and the audience with the highest potential expression. This presentation is a lecture/demonstration of the effectiveness of the BMV in conjunction with the Dynamic Presence Training (DPT). Students from several different performance disciplines will demonstrate a typical training session of the DPT, and special emphasis will be given to how this physical framework flows seamlessly into the vocal performance focus of the BMV Training. Conducting Annual Voice Screenings in the Academic Setting: Arlington ......... 3rd Establishing a Baseline for the Healthy, Methods for Identifying the Dysphonic, and Educating Those at Risk Emily Wolber Scheuring & Robert Wells – Introduced by Mitra Sadeghpour Establishing an annual voice screening protocol for students is a valuable tool for establishing baselines in the healthy, identifying risk factors for voice disorders, and providing timely referrals for those with abnormal findings. This session will identify appropriate screening candidates and discuss the value of preliminary vocal health screenings, methods of assessment, including detailed assessment protocols, and the professionals involved in the screening process. This session will further discuss procedures in the case of abnormal findings and strategies for the voice teacher working with the injured singer.

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2012 NATSAA WINNER RECITAL Andrew Garland, Baritone Donna Loewy, Piano SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014 • 4 P.M. Salon EF - 4th Floor

PROGRAM Opera Scene (from Craigslistlieder) ....................................... Gabriel Kahane (b.1981) El nacimento di Cifar .................................................... Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972) (from Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea) The Lordly Hudson ......................................................................Ned Rorem (b. 1923) I Was There (from I Was There) ................................................ Lee Hoiby (1926-2011) A Reverie (from Battle Pieces) ...................................................Paul Phillips (b. 1956) Psalm (from Night) .................................................................. Jeffrey Wood (b. 1954) Ten Thousand Miles Away (from Folk Song Set) .................Steven Mark Kohn (b. 1955) The Gallows Tree (from Folk Song Set)

Andrew Garland, Baritone

INTERMISSION Men with Small Heads (from Men with Small Heads) ................ Lori Laitman (b. 1957) Refrigerator 1957 (from Men with Small Heads) What the Mendicant Said (from The Moon is a Mirror) ...............Jake Heggie (b. 1961) An August Night (from A Heartland Portrait) .........................Stephen Paulus (b.1949) America 1968 ............................................................................ Tom Cipullo (b. 1960) Monet’s “Waterlilies” Hey Nonny No The Point (Stonington, Connecticut) The Whipping Those Winter Sundays Frederick Douglass

Donna Loewy, Piano

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The North Central Region Welcomes You To the 53rd NATS National Conference and Congratulates NATS and the New England Region on a successful conference! NORTH CENTRAL REGION Manitoba, Minnesota, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Wisconsin Regional Governor: Alison Feldt

Voice Program Provides Comprehensive Care for a Performer’s Most Treasured Instrument THE VOICE PROGRAM AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL is a leading provider of comprehensive voice and airway treatment services for those who rely on their voice for their profession. We understand the urgency and emotion involved with the care of their voice. Our Program provides the full range of specialized inpatient and outpatient services, including: • Timely solutions using voice assessments and therapies designed to quickly ascertain vocal health and to provide immediate treatment strategies • Advanced diagnostic services • Combined visits with a laryngologist and speech pathologist • State-of-the-art surgical and non-surgical solutions, including awake laryngeal procedures performed in the office setting at our Clinic • Collaborative care with specialty programs across Brigham and Women’s Hospital, including the Performing Arts Clinic, the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and the Dyspnea Center

To learn more about the Voice Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and how we may be able to help, please call (617) 525-7801 or visit www.brighamandwomens.org/voice.

NATIONAL MUSIC THEATER COMPETITION 2012 WINNER RECITAL Jacob Keith Waston, Tenor Jason Weisinger, Piano JULY 6, 2014 • 9:30 P.M. Salon EF - 4th Floor Jacob Keith Watson is a native of Wynne, Arkansas, and a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University. In April of 2014, Jacob Keith made his Broadway debut as a Swing in the Original Broadway Cast of Jeanine Tesori’s Violet starring Sutton Foster. Some of his other favorite roles include Feste in Twelfth Night, Horton in Seussical the Musical, Frederic in Pirates of Penzance, Naphtali/Calypso Soloist in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Scranton Slim/M.C. in Guys and Dolls, Iago (U/S) in Othello, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Corin in As You Like It, Trevor Graydon in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sir Harry in Once Upon a Mattress, Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie. Recent awards include second place in the prestigious international Lotte Lenya Competition with the Kurt Weill Foundation, First Place in the first ever NATS National Musical Theatre Competition, and Best Stage Presence/Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Concert work includes a Golden Age celebration concert tour in Germany titled New York, New York and Kurt Weill on Broadway at Symphony Space in New York City.

Jacob Keith Watson, Tenor Pianist Jason Weisinger has received critical acclaim as a collaborative pianist and coach. Working as a vocal accompanist at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, this past year he has been seen in recital with many current students. He has also served as music director for multiple shows including most recently Edges by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Primarily a singer, Mr. Weisinger is currently a Vocal Fellow at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center. As a recipient of the 2013 Marc and Eva Stern Fellowship at SongFest, he appeared in a concert of the music of Leonard Bernstein, singing Tony in excerpts from West Side Story under the baton of Bernstein's protégé, Michael Barrett. Mr. Weisinger recently completed his M.M. in Vocal Performance at the University of Cincinnati - CCM where he studied with Kenneth Shaw. In the fall he will continue his studies at CCM pursuing an Artist's Diploma in Opera Performance. He received his B.M. in Music Performance from SUNY Fredonia.

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014 Breakout Session

5:30-6:30 pm So You Want to Sing: A New Book Series Salon H-K ......... 4th Karen Hall, Matthew Edwards, Jan Shapiro & Allen Henderson Introduced by Allen Henderson At this conference NATS, in partnership with Scarecrow Press, is launching a new book series So You Want to Sing. Conceived as a series that addresses the unique needs of both serious performers who want to improve their skills in performing various styles as well as teachers who want a resource to assist them in teaching the unique aspects of various styles, the first three titles address music theater, jazz, and rock. Join the editors and authors of the series as we celebrate the launch of this series and introduce the first three volumes. A few free books will be given away to lucky attendees. Two Exciting Hal Leonard Showcases Boston Song Composers - Past and Present Salon A-D ......... 4th D’Anna Fortunato & John McDonald Introduced by Leslie Goldberg HAL LEONARD POTPOURRI JUNE 30, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom D–E this lecture recital including works of the Boston School D’Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano,SATURDAY, and John McDonald, composer-pianist, will present Performances from recentworks publications including… (early 20th Century); mid-century composers of Orientalism; more abstract in nature; and ending with compositions from the new American Debussy song before Romantic Composers. Some of those• arepresented willnever include Amypublished Beach, Gardner Read, Gunther Schuller, John Harbison, and Mohammed Fariouz. • an excerpt from a new song cycle by Rufus Wainwright Issues addressed in the lecture will include cultural influences and the evolution of different styles of compositions through a 100-year span plus a • songs by Corigliano, Korngold, Bolcom and Sondheim performer’s perspective of these composers’ works. A video documentary on the Kurt Ollmann

Hal Leonard Vocal Competition,

Collaborative Coaching and Joan Boytim presents her newest publication Salon F ......... 4th Margo Garrett Free music for all who attend while supplies last Introduced by Karen Brunssen presented by Richard Walters Join Margo Garrett as she performances works with a singer/pianist team in this interactive coaching session, by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Stolen and Beverly O’Regan Thieleand see how a master coach works with both singer and accompanist to develop their individual and collective performance. Audience involvement in the process will be encouraged, and time for questions and answers will be provided.

HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY,

BENJAMIN 6:30-7:45 pm President's Reception (by invitationBRITTEN only) SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom D-E Kathryn Proctor Duax, NATS President

Competition

Performances of selections from… • song cycles and sets • folksong arrangements

8-10:30 pm National Music Theater Competition Finals Plus, a Benjamin Britten “Power Point documentary” featuring film clips, historic recordings, from Britten’s letters, Introduced by Donald Simonson, NATSquotations Past President and NMTC Coordinator

Salon G ......... 4th

Salon EF ......... 4th

and photos of the composer

Concert

Free music for all who attend while supplies last

9:30 pm 2012 National Music Theater Competition presented by Richard WaltersWinner by Kurt Ollmann, Stolen andpiano Beverly O’Regan Thiele Jacob Keith performances Watson, tenor; JasonSteven Weisinger,

Salon EF ......... 4th

Visit us in the Exhibition Hall!

Louise Lerch Award (Sponsored by Jolie Stratton)

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014 7-8 am Early Morning Session-Pilates Penny Crochiere Join pilates instructor to NATS president Kathryn Duax for morning pilates sessions. Work that core!

Provincetown ......... 4th

Publisher Showcase

8-8:45 am The Life of a Singing Road Warrior Salon F ......... 4th Presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York Speaker: Matthew Oltman Over one hundred concerts per year, twenty hours of rehearsal per week, thousands of hours driving, tens of thousands of airline miles, hundreds of hotel rooms and enough climates, time zones and germy handshakes to give anyone the plague—such is the life of a singer in the Grammy award winning male vocal ensemble, Chanticleer. Keeping the voice, mind, and body healthy, rested, and perpetually “warmed-up” is a full-time struggle, and each member develops his own unique way of coping with the stresses of being continually on the road. Former member and Music Director Emeritus Matthew Oltman will provide insights, tips, and a few amusing anecdotes culled from his 13 years with the ensemble.

8:30 am-4:30 pm Registration Open

Foyer ......... 4th

Breakout Sessions

9-10 am Rock the Audition: Salon F ......... 4th How to Prepare For and Get Cast in Rock Musicals Sheri Sanders – Introduced by Norman Spivey Just as classic music theater lives in many different styles, “Rock Music Theater” also encompasses within it as many or more styles. Motown, 70s folk/rock, Disco, 80s pop/rock, contemporary pop/rock and alternative/folk rock music are all styles currently represented on the Broadway stage. Sanders will share with us ALL of the elements necessary to take a music theater performer trained primarily in legit styles, and teach them to transport themselves into ALL of the different genres that today’s rock musicals exist. A performer must look, feel, behave and express themselves vocally AS IF they were a real hippie, a disco queen, or a pop singer on the Ed Sullivan Show – not a music theater performer standing on the “X” trying to book a job. Beyond Communication: Using Lyric Diction Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd in the Voice Studio as a Path to Technical Freedom Eric Rieger – Introduced by Scott Miller Often considered an isolated topic of study for singers, lyric diction is not merely a means of being understood but also an intricate element of vocal technique. As a result of tension in the tongue, lips, and jaw, among other muscles of the vocal tract, singers not only find it difficult to articulate these sounds but are limited in the development of vocal range, flexibility, intonation, and coordinated onset, among other issues. Through careful and consistent application of free articulatory exercises in the diction classroom as well as the voice studio, singers enable precise formation of language sounds while also enhancing vocal freedom. Training “Mr. Soprano” and “Ms. Tenor” Salon H-K ......... 4th - Gender-Neutral Voice Pedagogy Robert Edwin – Introduced by Wayne Pope The vocal sounds human beings make are more the result of gender and cultural bias rather than physiologic function. The human larynx is, for all intents and purposes, a gender-neutral instrument; males and females can produce similar sounds with similar component parts. Training the whole voice is simply good voice pedagogy. Limiting pedagogy to males making “male sounds” and females making “female sounds” is not. In this session, Robert Edwin will briefly state the case for gender-neutral voice pedagogy. Valuing the Voice of Diversity Arlington ......... 3rd Christopher Correlli – Introduced by Mark McQuade Have you ever had trouble getting your point through to a student? Current educational research highlights the importance of identifying and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of all classroom learners, particularly those who are disadvantaged. As the student population continues to diversify, studio teachers (particularly in their one-on-one environments) must be prepared to thoughtfully engage with learners from varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds. While striving to understand how these identity markers affect students and should inform our teaching, efforts must made to resist generalizing entire populations along the way. Special attention will be given to how educational constructs favor majority-approved learning patterns, and how the successful educator views student identity as a collection of advantages instead of deficiencies.

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014 Breakout Sessions

9-10 am American Art Song: Major Trends of the Past 100 Years Salon A-D ......... 4th Robin Fisher, Ruth C. Friedberg, & Donna Loewy Introduced by Tod Fitzpatrick Interspersed with discussion and performance of representative literature, the presenters illuminate major trends in American art song composition in the past one hundred years from Charles Ives, one of the first to incorporate American sounds, to current composers.

10 am-6 pm Exhibit Hall Open

Bay Exhibit Hall ......... 3rd Two Exciting Hal Leonard Back Showcases

Competitions

10 am-12 pm National Student Auditions Final - Lower Divisions Salon H-K ......... 4th HAL LEONARD POTPOURRI Introduced by Deborah Williamson, NSA Coordinator SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom D–E Performances from recent publications including… 1-4 pm National Student Auditions Final - Upper Divisions & Awards Salon H-K ......... 4th • a Debussy song never before published Introduced by Deborah Williamson, NSA Coordinator • an excerpt from a new song cycle by Rufus Wainwright • songs by Corigliano, Bolcom and Sondheim Awards for lower divisions will be announced between upperKorngold, divisions Kurt Ollmann

A video documentary on the Hal Leonard Vocal Competition, and Joan Boytim presents her newest publication

Free music for all who attend while supplies last presented by Richard Walters performances by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Stolen and Beverly O’Regan Thiele

10 am-1 pm DCINY Auditions Presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York

HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY,

BENJAMIN BRITTEN 10-10:30 am Refreshment Break SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1:00-1:45, Crystal Ballroom D-E Sponsored by NATS Cal-Western Region and NATS Mid-South Region

Plenary Session

Vermont ......... 5th Back Bay Foyer ......... 3rd

Performances of selections from… • song cycles and sets • folksong arrangements

10:30 am-12 pm Stepping on Stage - Pop/Rock Music Theater Salon EF ......... 4th Plus, a Benjamin Britten “Power Point documentary” recordings, quotations from Britten’s letters, Sheri Sanders, Melissa Cross & VP featuring Boyle film clips, historic and photos of the composer Introduced by Christopher Arneson Freewill music all who music attendtheater while supplies Continuing this popular series at NATS conferences, our panel hearforpop/rock auditionslast from a variety of singers and offer their immediate and complete feedback on their success in the audition. presented by Richard Walters

Master Class

performances by Kurt Ollmann, Steven Stolen and Beverly O’Regan Thiele

Visit us in the Exhibition Hall! 12:15-1:30 pm Master Class with Andrew Lippa Salon EF ......... 4th Sponsored by Hal Leonard Introduced by Richard Walters Grab your lunch and join Emmy winner and Tony and Grammy nominee Andrew Lippa for a lunchtime master class where he coaches singers on his songs. Lippa is currently receiving critical acclaim for his oratorio I am Harvey Milk which he composed and in which he also is singing the role of Harvey Milk.

Publisher Showcase

1:15-2 pm A Taste of Estill Voice Training™ Salon A-D ......... 4th How discerning is your vocal palate? This Estill Voice Training™ Showcase will offer a few of the “recipes” used in Classical and Contemporary singing. Participants will sample the voice production “ingredients” singers use when “mixing” different voice qualities. You will leave this workshop with some “staples” and “spices” to use when training the vocal versatility so many of your students crave. You will also learn Estill Voice Training’s “nutritional guidelines” for keep the voice healthy.

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014 Poster Papers Session 2

Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd Introduced by John Nix, Poster Papers Coordinator 12-2 pm Poster Title: Exceptional Students in the Voice Studio: Understanding and Training Students with Asperger’s Syndrome Presenter: Dr. Ann K. Cravero Synopsis: An introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorders including a methodology for instructing voice lessons to high-functioning autistic students based on observation, studio voice instruction, interviews, and research. Poster Title: Ernestine Schumann-Heink: A Contralto’s Legacy Presenter: Holly Gardinier Synopsis: The Claremont Colleges Library announces the publication of a digital collection of music manuscripts once owned by the worldrenowned contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861-1936). The project received a major grant from Thomas Hampson’s Hampsong Foundation to undertake the scanning of over 1,125 manuscripts of songs representing 638 European and American composers, including many works by women composers. You are cordially invited to the premiere of “Ernestine Schumann-Heink: A Contralto’s Legacy” at the poster session and at http://ccdl. libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15831coll6. Poster Title: Voice Building Exercises Found in Handel’s Oratorios for the Tenor Voice Presenter: John Grau Synopsis: G. F. Handel’s oratorio output contains a wealth of voice building materials. Looking at specific examples, we present a repertoire guide that will assist voice instructors in assigning an aria, which helps reinforce vocal exercises presented in the studio. Poster Title: The Ladies of Lyric and Song: Female Composers and Lyricists of the American Musical Theatre Presenter: Erin Guinup Synopsis: Only a small percentage of women have found success writing for Broadway, but these trailblazing women have written a substantial catalog of musical theatre songs. This presentation based on a theatrical program directed by Tony Award nominee Patti Cohenour explores hurdles female composers have faced and will include a repertoire list of great musical theatre songs by women. Poster Title: VoiceTracks: Measuring Student Outcomes over Time Presenters: J. Arden Hopkin; Diane Reich; Michael C. Johnson Synopsis: The software program VoiceTracks, created at Brigham Young University for the Vocal Division of the BYU School of Music, helps track student progress over the duration of a student’s study by recording jury scores and comments, tallying grades and scores, and recording the cumulative repertoire of the student. It also records in graph form the student’s progress over time, helping teachers and administrators to catch problems early on in the training. The presentation will demonstrate the various capabilities of this program to aid in tracking student progress over time. Poster Title: The Effect of Technology in the Assessment of Singer Training in a University Studio: A Pilot Study Presenter: Karl Paoletti Jr. Synopsis: The purpose of this study is to develop a well-structured assessment program of students’ performance technique and musical skill development during a semester of applied voice lessons. While there are other studies of the benefits of using biofeedback in singer training, this study will focus on the benefits of using spectrographic data as a tool for quantifying student success and teacher effectiveness. Poster Title: The Effect of Voice Therapy on College Voice Majors: A Pilot Study (An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure) Presenter: Karl Paoletti Jr. Synopsis: Many young singers report to their applied voice teachers that they suffer from symptoms of vocal hoarseness, chronic fatigue and insomnia during periods of high voice usage, often leading to poor vocal quality. Many colleges and universities have a communication sciences and disorders department offering voice therapy to college students. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects and possible benefits of voice therapy during a vocal music major’s typical semester.

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Music to our ears “Wisconsin’s Singing University” offers best wishes to NATS President Kathryn Proctor Duax for a successful national conference. As our colleague for 38 years, Dr. Proctor Duax taught scores of students who still sing her praises. We applaud her service to our University and are conﬁdent she will orchestrate a harmonious conference in Boston.

Dr. Proctor Duax, professor emerita of music, taught applied voice, pedagogy, diction, voice literature and opera workshop at UW-Eau Claire from 1970-2007 and served as coordinator of the voice and choral area for many years. In 1993, she founded and served as ﬁrst chair of the steering committee of the UW-Eau Claire Foundation “Friends of Music,” which has funded countless musical programs, performances and purchases of musical instruments since its inception. Thank you for the lasting gift of music!

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014 Poster Papers Session 2

(continued) Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd Introduced by John Nix, Poster Papers Coordinator 12-2 pm Poster Title: Short-Term Study of Multiple Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Singing Styles to Teach “Meta-Singing” Concepts to Beginning Voice Students Presenter: Louise Pinkerton Synopsis: “Meta-singing” concepts are fundamental skills related to singing that transcend genre and musical style, such as breathing, posture, resonance, and interpretation. Using strongly contrasting musical styles in short-term learning units, beginning singers experience and conceptualize different aspects of vocal technique and then apply the new ideas to their own singing. This poster presents examples from a two-semester class lesson curriculum that uses case-based learning units on multiple singing styles to introduce and reinforce meta-singing concepts and skills.

Poster Title: Collegiate Voice Assessments: What They Are, How To Do Them, and Why They Matter Presenter: Kathy Kessler Price Synopsis: What are voice assessments, and why are they an important dimension to a university/conservatory voice program? This presentation examines the process of gaining institutional approval, establishing a protocol, and analyzing pre- and post-voice assessments of incoming students (freshmen, transfers, first-year graduate students), both as they enter and complete their programs. It also opens a discussion of how we “measure” our students’ progress through information derived from both traditional voice lesson strategies and technologies from a university voice lab. Poster Title: Engaging Modernity through Song: Berlin Cabaret during the Weimar Republic Presenter: Jonathon Struve Synopsis: Composer Friedrich Hollaender contributed an enormous number of songs for Berlin cabaret theatres during the turbulent Weimar period between 1919 and 1933. These cabaret songs and their texts resonated with audiences because of their timely and entertaining references to particular events, people, places, and aspects of popular culture through satire, humor, and critique. This study explores these references and how this fascinating body of music and text can inform our contemporary understanding of Weimar Germany and how intellectuals, artists, and audiences responded to their society and culture. Poster Title: Hormones and the Female Voice: An Exploration of the Female Hormonal Cycle from Puberty to Menopause, and How it Affects the Vocal Apparatus Presenter: Patricia Vigil Synopsis: Dealing with vocal issues brought on by hormonal fluctuations can be extremely frustrating for the female singer; the best weapon of defense against its unpredictability is information. Unfortunately, data regarding this subject is not covered in any detail in most standard vocal pedagogy books. This paper will provide an overview of the female hormonal cycle throughout a woman’s life and its effects on the singing voice. Poster Title: Body Singing: Toys for Singing Teachers Presenter: Pat H. Wilson Synopsis: Singing teachers often use devices as they work to assist singers to produce better tone with greater efficiency from a released and wellaligned body. This paper describes and illustrates a select list of nine common devices (“toys”). As well as explaining ways in which each device may be employed, there is a referenced “Why it works” section which relates the practical applications of each toy to principles of vocal pedagogy. 12-2 pm JOS Editorial Board Luncheon Richard Sjoerdsma, JOS Editor, presiding

St. Botolph .........2nd

12-2 pm Intern Program Reunion (by invitation only) Tremont .......... 1st Lunch event - drinks/desserts provided Donald Simonson, NATS Past President and Intern Program Coordinator, presiding

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014 Plenary Session

2-3:30 pm Master Class with Margo Garrett Salon EF ..........4th Margo Garrett – Introduced by Kathryn Proctor Duax One of the country’s leading collaborative artists and teachers of the art of collaboration between singer and pianist, Margo Garrett will work with three singers on art song literature addressing relevant issues and seeking to fully reveal the composers intentions and elicit compelling performances.

3:30-4 pm Art Song Composition Award Winner Introduced by Carol Mikkelson, Art Song Composition Award Coordinator Performance of Winning Composition (1st Place Winner) Robert Patterson – American Pierrot: A Langston Hughes Songbook Performed by Robert Wells, Allen Henderson and Tod Fitzpatrick National Semifinalists (2nd Place Winner) Paul Zeigler – Astonishing Light: Six Songs on Poems by Hafiz (Honorable Mention) Jonathan David – Gitchee Gumee (Honorable Mention) Pol Vanfleteren – Leaving (Honorable Mention) Jeffrey Moidel - And Now You’re Mine from Love Sonnets (Song Honorable Mention) Kaley Eaton - From the Archive: Children of Air India Sarah Hutchings - Vestige of a Woman Robert Paterson - CAPTCHA Joseph Rubenstein - Casting Off: Eight Poems of Stephen Crane Richard Thompson - Hair Emergency

Salon EF ......... 4th

Song 2014Art Composition Award

Breakout Sessions

4-5 pm Standard Pedagogy and Technique for the Female Belt Voice Salon A-D ......... 4th Richard Lissemore Introduced by Debra Field In this session, Lissemore will explain and discuss a detailed, pedagogical approach to the female belt voice that is easily understandable for all voice care professionals. The purpose is to clarify the teaching of the belt voice so that more teachers will confidently know how best to proceed and more singers will avoid vocal injury. Women Teaching Men - Taking the Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd Mystery Out of Voice Pedagogy for Male Singers Carla LeFevre & Nancy Walker Introduced by Donald Simonson While some people believe that singers should study with the same gender, most professionals are aware that this is not necessarily so. What is necessary is that the teacher has a solid understanding of a good and healthy technique, an ear for determining what the voice needs, and the ability to help the student. Modeling/demonstrating for male students is at best difficult for a female teacher; thus, it is especially important in these situations that the teacher possess a large number of varied methods for addressing the technical issues that singers face. Join Walker and LeFevre as they addresses practical strategies and technical methods for female voice teachers who work with male voices. Facing Forward/Looking Back: Salon F ......... 4th Exploring Themes of Self and Relationship in the Songs of Jake Heggie Jake Heggie, Lauren McNeese, Elvia Puccinelli, & Jennifer Youngs Introduced by Alison Feldt American composer Jake Heggie is internationally celebrated for his operatic masterworks and over two hundred songs with piano or small chamber ensemble. Focusing on more recent works, this presentation will give an overview of Heggie’s art song literature for voice and piano, including background of works, discussion of poetic themes, and performance suggestions from the composer himself. Representative works will be featured in live performance. Mr. Heggie will be in attendance and available for commentary.

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CONCERT MONDAY JULY 7, 2014 • 8:00 P.M. Jordan Hall at

PROGRAM I. LIEDER VON RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949) Himmelsboten................................................(Des KnabenWunderhorn) op.32/5 Ach weh mir unglückhaftem Mann ............................................. (Dahn) op.21/4 Heimliche Aufforderung ...........................................................(Mackay) op.27/3 Freundliche Vision ............................................................... (Bierbaum) op.48/1 Traum durch die Daemmerung ........................................ (O.J.Bierbaum) op.29/1 Mein Herz ist stumm,mein Herz ist kalt ...................... (A.F.Grafv.Schack) op.19/6 Sehnsucht ............................................................................ (Liliencron) op.32/2 Morgen ....................................................................................(Mackay) op.27/4

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Thomas Hampson, Baritone

II. Favorites from the Song of America tours My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free (Thomas Parnell) .........Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) The Dodger (trad.) ................................................... Aaron Copland (1900-1990) In Flanders Fields (Col. McCrae) .................................... Charles Ives (1874-1954) Song of the Deathless Voice (Omaha Indian) ............. Arthur Farwell (1872-1952) The Negro Sings of Rivers (Langston Hughes) .........Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) Letter to Mrs. Bixby (Abraham Lincoln) ..................... Michael Dauerghty (1955-) God Be In My Heart (anon. 16th century) .......Elinor Remick Warren (1900-1991) III. Songs of Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Night Wanderers (1935) ................................................. (William Henry Davies) A Green Lowland of Pianos ............................ (Milosz on text by Harasymowicz) Nocturne, Op. 13 (1940) ....................................................... (Frederic Prokosch) Rain has fallen ................................................................... (James Joyce) Op.10 Sleep now I hear an army

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014 Breakout Sessions

4-5 pm Vocal Landmines Confronting the Contemporary Commercial Singer Salon H-K ......... 4th - Professional Singer, Young Singer, and Avocational Singer Lucinda Halstead & Deanna McBroom Introduced by Kathryn Proctor Duax Vocal injuries can have a variety of causes, and teachers can often times feel ill-equipped to identify potential issues in students. This team organizes these problems for us, and shares with us a systematic way of identifying the symptoms and involving a voice care team that includes the voice teacher in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of a variety of disorders. Informed Copyright Behavior Arlington ......... 3rd for Teachers of Singing in the 21st Century Stephen Wood & Emily Toronto Introduced by Allen Henderson United States copyright law is complex and ever-evolving. One of the reasons for this complexity is that the law must respond to new situations. The advancing technologies of the digital age have changed the ways artistic works are created, distributed, and sold. Teachers of singing in the 21st century need to understand and model informed copyright behavior in the studio, as performers, and in their use of technology. Furthermore, because copyright impacts our discipline in profound ways, it is important for teachers of singing to influence the future of copyright reform.

Publisher Showcase

5:30-6:15 pm MusicalTheaterSongs.com - The Right Song, Right Now Salon A-D ......... 4th Presented by Steven Gross Steven Gross, founder and CEO of Musical Theater Songs LLC, presents his new online discovery service dedicated to musical theater repertoire. MusicalTheaterSongs.com lets singers, music students, and teachers enter various search criteria to find songs that meet their needs exactly from a large and growing database of musical theater numbers.

Featured Artist Concert 8 pm

Thomas Hampson Concert Full conference registration includes admission to this event. Tickets can be purchased at the conference registration desk (4th floor lobby).

Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory (See Map on Page 99)

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 7-8 am Early Session-Pilates Pilates for Singers - Penny Crochiere

Provincetown ......... 4th

Publisher Showcase

8-8:45 am Raise Your Body IQ: It Takes Your Whole Body Salon A-D ......... 4th to Support Your Whole Voice Presenter: Ruth Williams Hennessy, Director, Hennessy Whole Body Voice™ and creator of the instructional DVD, Voice at the Center™ Have you ever wondered if there could be MORE to your students’ voices than they are currently enjoying: more ease, more power, more consistency, or more flexibility? Developing singers often find it difficult to release tension in the jaw, tongue, or larynx because these tensions, like the tip of an iceberg, are merely the visible portion of underlying muscle patterns hidden throughout the body. Without releasing those underlying patterns, the tense jaw or tongue cannot fully respond to instruction, even with a very clear mental understanding of technique. This Hennessy Whole Body VoiceTM presentation addresses these issues physically, as a helpful aid to voice instruction, not as a separate vocal technique. This is vocal bodywork designed by a singer, for singers. Ruth Williams Hennessy’s Vocal BodyWorkShops©, offered weekly in New York City, are also seen at universities, choral organizations, and symposiums across the country. Her DVD, Voice at the CenterTM, is used in homes, studios, and vocal pedagogy classes around the world. Ruth’s articles have appeared in Classical Singer, The Soul of the American Actor, and other publications. You can see more about Ruth’s work, including video clips, at HennessyWholeBodyVoice.com and VoiceAtTheCenter.com. #NATSinBoston

Since 1876, Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) has established a tradition of excellence and empowered thousands of music professionals. Membership in MTNA helps you stay in tune with the ever-changing demands of music teaching and complements the depth of your NATS experience by offering a variety of programs, services and opportunities for professional development.

DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 8:30 am-3:30 pm Registration Open

Foyer ......... 4th

9 am-12 pm Exhibit Hall Open

Back Bay Exhibit Hall ......... 3rd

Breakout Sessions

9-10 am What Mental Skills Do Performers Need Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd and How Do They Get Them? Diana Allan Introduced by Mark McQuade The performer’s mindset is the ideal performing attitude accompanied by the effective mental strategies that successful performers possess and use to perform their best when it really counts. In 2010, sport psychology expert Patrick Cohn and Diana Allan created a survey with this information that identified the top five challenges performers face including performance anxiety and perfectionism. This presentation will examine these challenges, the strategies that performers need to overcome these challenges to take their performing to the next level, and how we and our students can cultivate these mental skills. Singing Our History: A Representation Salon H-K ......... 4th of American History in American Art Song Judith E. Carman, Rita Resch, Abra Bush, Quinn Patrick Ankrum, Andrew Blosser, David Grogan, & Stella Roden Introduced by Melanie Williams Among the thousands of art songs by American composers are at least 130 that represent, describe, or memorialize people and events from U. S. history. Singing Our History is a small selection of these songs and the historic aspects they represent from Colonial times through the present. This is not a history of American art song, but the history of our country told in art song, mostly by twentieth-century composers. The presentation will consist of selected performed examples with brief narrative “glue,” as well as the texts, projected on a screen. The songs themselves tell the story. This presentation will encourage singers to consider creating recital programs with this fascinating material. A Lifetime of Singing: Choral/Vocal Techniques Salon A-D ......... 4th and Expectations for Healthy Singing at Every Age Karen Brunssen & Julia Davids Introduced by Craig Tompkins Many voice teachers and choral conductors work with a wide age range of singers. The sounds and function of voices change throughout a lifetime. This session will explore the natural and variable vocal, musical, and personal qualities for different age brackets and appropriate, age-optimal techniques to nurture singing. With this information, both teachers and choral conductors can strive to work within realistic limits, yet neither below nor beyond them. Considering physiology, vocal health and development, and vocal qualities and textures, the team will share exercises, practical advice, and expectations to facilitate and better inform “A Lifetime of Singing.” CCM Voice Pedagogy and the Singing Voice Teacher Salon F ......... 4th Matthew Edwards, David Meyer, & Kathryn Green Introduced by Robert Wells The market for singers has changed drastically in the last 15 years. The recession has been difficult for non-profit opera companies, forcing many to close and/or drastically slash their performance fees. Music theater companies have responded to the great recession by turning to what they have discovered to be a sure sell – pop/rock musicals. The combination of these two factors has changed the demand in the marketplace for voice teachers. This presentation will outline the ways the market has shifted, highlight new voice science research, and discuss ways to move forward as a profession. Special Needs Panel Arlington ......... 3rd Kathryn Proctor Duax, Lisa Thorson, & Leslie Hunter Introduced by Chris Arneson Working with special needs students provides a wonderful opportunity to help these students improve their ability to enjoy making music. NATS President Kathryn Proctor Duax has assembled a panel of experts to discuss the benefits and challenges of working with this population. Join us and discover new opportunities to expand your skill set and your studio.

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 10-10:30 am Refreshment Break Sponsored by American Academy of Teachers of Singing

Plenary Session

Back Bay Foyer ......... 3rd

10:30 am-12 pm Master Class with Thomas Hampson Thomas Hampson Introduced by Kathryn Proctor Duax Join special guest artist Thomas Hampson as he works with talented singers in this featured master class.

Poster Papers Session 3

12-2 pm Introduced by John Nix, Poster Papers Coordinator

Salon EF ..........4th

Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd

Poster Title: Teaching Singers to Be Strategic and Self-Directed Learners: A Social Cognitive Approach to Vocal Practice Pedagogy Presenter: Amber Sudduth Bone Synopsis: Along with their technical proficiency, expert singers have developed an extremely effective practice process through honing their ability to identify and remediate vocal issues strategically. An extensive body of research on music practice indicates (1) that it is possible to teach the components of strategic learning explicitly from an early stage of musicianship development; and (2) that a teacher’s choice of instructional methods and assessments has a profound influence on students’ beliefs about the nature of knowledge, their ability to think critically, and their competence at transferring concepts from the studio to their independent work and performance. This presentation will integrate theories derived from research findings in cognitive psychology and music education with the voice science knowledge base about optimal singing function and skill acquisition to present a pedagogical model designed to foster student self-efficacy in the practice room. Poster Title: Formant Tuning in Baritone Voce Mista Presenter: Marquese S. Carter Synopsis: What strategies do song interpreters use to achieve voix mixte as a vocal affect? This poster presentation attempts to answer this question from an acoustical point of view using VoceVista and an expert panel to determine formant tuning strategies. Poster title: Practice Partners Presenter: Blaine Hendsbee Synopsis: Teachers want their students to succeed, and it is our responsibility to do everything we can to help them learn, develop, and flourish while under our guidance and care. The “Practice Partner” program links together freshmen and upper-level voice students in an effort to ease new students into the demands and expectations of advanced university vocal training. This innovative program provides advanced students with additional mentorship by their own “master teacher” at their partners’ lessons and helps guide, inform, and introduce various pedagogical approaches and practice strategies to upper-level students while greatly aiding freshman student retention. Poster Title: Development of the Verdi Baritone Presenter: Nathan Krueger Synopsis: The development of the Verdi baritone can be traced through both the singers that were performing the roles and the roles themselves. This poster presentation identifies the singers and the opera roles that were integral in the development of the dramatic baritone and provides information on the origin of what we now refer to as the Verdi baritone. Poster Title: A Stylistic Survey of the Voices of Disney Princesses Presenter: Linda Lister Synopsis: The voices of Disney’s princesses have changed through time, from classically trained singers (Snow White, Adriana Caselotti; Sleeping Beauty/Metropolitan Opera Manon, Mary Costa) to Broadway belters (Pocahontas, Judy Kuhn) and pop stars (Rapunzel, Mandy Moore). This paper explores the voices of all the Disney princesses, including comparisons of vocal timbre and range as well as stylistic and musical characterization. The survey also examines the specific songs which define the characters, and discusses their suitability of the repertoire for young singers.

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Opera Institute Faculty William Lumpkin Artistic Director Matthew Larson James Petosa Betsy Polatin Alexander Technique Laura Raffo Emily Ranii Jeffrey Stevens Melinda Sullivan-Friedman Nathan Troup Allison Voth Students in all degree programs are encouraged to audition for opera productions and activities.

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DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 Poster Papers Session 3

Introduced by John Nix, Poster Papers Coordinator Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd 12-2 pm (CANCELED) Poster Title: Acoustical and Perceptual Measures from Performers In a Recital Hall and a Practice Room with Digitally-produced Reverberation Presenter: Heather R. Nelson Synopsis: For singers, moving from practicing in a small room to performing in a large recital hall can be a daunting task that presents numerous challenges to vocal production. Modular practice rooms with digitally-produced reverberation that mimic differing environments could reduce the acoustical gap. The purpose of this study is to compare various aspects of vocal production in singers performing in rooms with digitally-produced acoustics with singing in a “real world” recital hall. Poster Title: Perspectives On a cappella Presenter: Donald St. Jean Synopsis: This study seeks to establish an understanding of the role that contemporary popular a cappella ensemble singing plays in the development of the vocal and musical skills of undergraduate students. That understanding is based on the perceptions of students, recent graduates with three to five years’ experience teaching music, and faculty directors associated with four-year colleges and universities within the geographical region of the ACDA Eastern Division. This investigation explores the following questions: In what ways is a cappella ensemble singing perceived to contribute to the vocal/music development of undergraduate students? Are there measurable differences in the perceived benefits of traditional and contemporary genres of a cappella choral singing between undergraduate students and faculty directors? Poster Title: Testing a New Method in Voice Dosimetry Utilizing an Unfiltered Accelerometer Signal: Protocols and Preliminary Data Presenter: Matthew Schloneger Synopsis: The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a new budget-friendly method for voice dosimetry using an unfiltered accelerometer signal. The method incorporated the simultaneous ambulatory acquisition of vocal dose and voice quality measures such as long-term average spectrum (LTAS), alpha ratio, shimmer, jitter, and harmonic-to-noise ratio so that these measures could be directly compared for the same voicing period. Acquired data could be helpful in developing a greater understanding of voice use among singers and why certain individuals might experience more decline in vocal function than others with a similar vocal dose. Poster Title: Considerations and Repertoire for the Changing Female Adolescent Voice Presenter: Catherine Tlusty Synopsis: As voice professionals, it is imperative that we encourage young girls to sing throughout their vocal development with healthy vocal function. The surge of young pop stars and young singers’ accessibility to them via technology and social media require our attention. This presentation will provide the essential details of the growth and changes of the vocal structure during the female adolescent voice change and repertoire appropriate for this stage of vocal development. 12-3 pm Exhibit Hall Breakdown and Move Out

Back Bay Exhibit Hall ......... 3rd

12-2 pm SNATS Gathering (by invitation only) Boylston .......... 1st Mitra Sadeghpour, Vice President for Discretionary Funds & Field Activities, presiding

Publisher Showcase

12:10-12:55 pm Resonance: A Comprehensive Voice Series - An Inside Look Salon EF ..........4th Presented by: The Royal Conservatory Music Development Program Speaker: Robert Loewen The Royal Conservatory Music Development Program is pleased to present Resonance: A Comprehensive Voice Series. Resonance serves as the official resource for voice assessments of The Royal Conservatory Music Development Program. Featuring an outstanding selection of voice literature and supporting materials, this series offers a truly enriched learning experience to help ensure student success. Come and raise your voices in song as we take an inside look at the entire series in this engaging and enjoyable showcase. This will be an excellent introduction for voice teachers and students who are interested in learning about this exciting collection.

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The NATS Intermountain Region Extends a Warm Welcome to our Colleagues from Around the World!

Scott D. Miller, Regional Governor

Pamela Bathurst, Rachel Hop, Kimberly James, and Laura Rushing-Raynes, District Governors

DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 Publisher Showcase

1:10-1:55 pm Discover Music Together Family Classes Salon A-D ..........4th Presented by Music Together LLC Presenter: Lisa Griffith Every day in communities around the world, Music Together teachers help children learn music skills in a playful, organic way that sets them on the path toward a lifelong love of singing and making music. At our showcase, you’ll learn how you can bring Music Together to your community— and become the teacher that opens up the world of music to young children and their families.

Plenary Session

2-3:30 pm Thomas Hampson Lecture/Q&A Salon EF ..........4th Introduced by Allen Henderson Renowned baritone Thomas Hampson has been praised by the New York Times for his “ceaseless curiosity.” Hampson enjoys a singular international career as an opera singer, recording artist, and “ambassador of song,” maintaining an active interest in research, education, musical outreach, and technology. He has performed in the world’s most important concert halls and opera houses with many renowned singers, pianists, conductors, and orchestras. Recently honored as a Metropolitan Opera Guild “Met Mastersinger,” he is one of the most respected, innovative, and sought-after soloists performing today.

3:30-4:30 pm JOS Editorial Board Q&A Richard Sjoerdsma, Journal of Singing Editor

Provincetown ..........4th

Breakout Sessions

4-5 pm The ‘Screen Invasion’: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age Salon H-K ..........4th Lynn Helding – Introduced by Tod Fitzpatrick What is information overload doing to our brains? The magnitude of the effect of the digital revolution on humankind is unprecedented. Digital media provides over three times as much information each day as was available 50 years ago, yet this abundance exceeds the brain’s “cognitive load” limit. Leading brain scientists warn that this “screen invasion” has changed the way we think, by literally rewiring our brains. Thus, a closer examination of cognitive function in the Digital Age, both for “Digital Natives” (those who were born into the Digital Age) and “Digital Immigrants” (recent migrants) is in order. The Dynamic Classroom: Back Bay Meeting Rooms ......... 3rd Creating an Engaging Learning Environment for Voice Related Studies Cheri Montgomery – Introduced by Carole Blankenship How can you create a more engaging learning environment that will stimulate lively interaction between students and instructor? Join Cheri Montgomery as she explores methodologies and new resources available to instructors that will energize your diction, vocal literature, and pedagogy classrooms. Bring your iPad and download the free app from www.doceri.com to participate in this interactive presentation. American Academy of Teachers of Singing: Salon G ..........4th In Support of Fact-Based Voice Pedagogy and Terminology Martha Randall, Robert Edwin, Brian Horne, Karen Brunssen, & Margaret Cusack Introduced by Norman Spivey The American Academy of Teachers of Singing (AATS) honors and respects the history of voice pedagogy and the work of voice pedagogues, who, throughout the centuries, have labored to improve the singing of countless students. In this paper, our message is that voice science does not tell us what to do as teachers of singing. It tells us what is happening during the act of singing. Science informs art, it does not create it. The goal of this paper is to clarify, add to current knowledge, and provide support for teachers in independent and academic studios. Fact-based voice pedagogy helps foster a common terminology and develops technique that is consonant with the laws of nature. However, the mechanical act of producing a tone does not, in and of itself, produce art. Vocal art is created through function, imagination, musicality, phrasing, and of course, emotion. Therefore, it is the singer, compelled to express something meaningful only he or she can voice, and committed to share that vision with others, who will be best able to navigate the journey of the singer-artist. Fact-based voice pedagogy, by following the laws of nature and function, provides the foundation that supports the journey. Go to www.americanacademyofteachersofsinging.org where the paper can be found in its entirety. We welcome your input. (Breakout Sessions, continued on page 53) #NATSinBoston

DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULE TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 Breakout Sessions

(Continued from page 51) 4-5 pm Authenticity in the Performance of Spirituals Salon A-D .........4th and Songs of Hall Johnson Donnie Ray Albert & Allen Henderson Introduced by Allen Henderson In this roll-out of the NATS Hall Johnson Spirituals Competition that will begin in 2016, international operatic baritone and two-time Grammywinning artist Donnie Ray Albert will perform a program of Hall Johnson Spirituals and Songs with commentary prepared by Dr. Eugene Thamon Simpson, founding curator of the Hall Johnson Collection at Rowan University and author of the biography, Hall Johnson: His Life, His Spirit, and His Music. From Boys to Men: Arlington .........3rd Keeping Boys Singing into Adulthood - A Panel Discussion Rollo Dilworth, Murray Kidd, Patrick Freer, Aaron Humble, Lynn Shane, & Joseph Stillitano Introduced by Mitra Sadeghpour Keeping males singing throughout their school years and into adulthood has been a recurring subject of study for the past 50 years. Music educators and vocal leaders investigate the reasons behind why males sing or do not sing, but a shortage of male singers in private studios, college vocal programs, choruses, opera companies, and musical theater companies continues to exist in both the US and abroad. Join our distinguished panelists in a discussion about the issues surrounding low male participation in singing activities, and discover strategies that can be used to overcome this problem. Explore what we, as voice teachers, can do to help recruit and retain more male singers into adulthood.

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5-5:45 pm Sing with the Best Salon A-D ......... 4th Presented by Adam Kirkpatrick Join inventor Adam Kirkpatrick in this interactive session to discover how technology can help your students sing with the best intonation, pitch accuracy, resonance, vibrato, and vocal clarity. Participants will have the opportunity to experience how sEMG biofeedback can improve a singer’s tone by training him/her to lower the larynx, and how an innovative iPhone app can provide valuable aid to students in their daily practice.

Official Event

7:30-11 pm

70th Anniversary Celebration Gala Banquet · Featuring the nationally recognized White Heat Swing Orchestra · Special Guest and Honoree: George Shirley · Dinner Buffet and Dancing Please join us on July 8 as NATS members and conference attendees enjoy dinner and celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the association and its work. The event will feature the nationally acclaimed and high-energy White Heat Swing Orchestra, dancing, special guest of honor George Shirley, and time to have fun with your colleagues on the last full day of the conference. Learn more at www.havetodance.com/whiteheat/.

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Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient George Shirley

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014 9-10:30 am National Business Meeting & Installation of Officers NATS President Kathryn Proctor Duax presiding

Salon E .........4th

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From Our Coast to Your Coast The Northwestern Region of NATS Welcomes You to the 53rd National Conference in Boston, Massachusetts! Craig Tompkins - Northwestern Regional Governor Richard Poppino - Western Oregon District Governor Darrell Born - Western Washington District Governor Alison Nystrom - British Columbia District Governor Mari Hahn - Alaska District Governor

Mid-South Region Where the music

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R. Wayne Pope

Regional Governor

Christopher Mitchell Kentucky Governor

Andrea Dismukes

Tennessee Governor

Andrew Skoog

Tennessee Chapter President

Stanley Warren

Memphis Chapter President

Congratulations to

Karen Crow, Mezzo-soprano Mid-South Region 2014 Mid-South NATSAA Winner

A FRESH VOICE IN ART SONG Delos proudly presents Terrain of the Heart, a new recording of three cycles for soprano and piano from Mark Abel, a composer from the West Coast whose style expands the expressive boundaries of art song in a 21st century manner. Two of the cycles feature Abel’s own vivid and powerful lyrics and the third is a setting of five Rilke poems. We invite you to explore this fascinating CD, available from Amazon and iTunes, and to visit markabelmusic.com for information about the composer and to view perusal scores. Mark Abel Terrain of the Heart Delos DE 3438 delosmusic.com

“Abel is as good a poet as he is a musician. ... I think that anyone who is interested in modern vocal music will want to own this disc.” — Maria Nockin in Fanfare on Mark Abel’s The Dream Gallery.

Community, Individuality, Passion The Rhodes College Department of Music is committed to graduating intelligent, passionate music professionals, educators, advocates and leaders. It is dedicated to serving the greater community as a resource in education and the arts. Rhodes College offers: • A dedicated liberal arts education in a college highly ranked by U. S. News and World Report and Forbes Magazine (top 15 in the nation) • Educational and outreach opportunities in an arts-rich metropolitan area • Outstanding music faculty who are not only renowned as working professional musicians and first-rate researchers, but are also enthusiastic and committed teachers • Experience that combines the best of the classroom, the practice room and the real world—through performances, internships, service, research and other opportunities in Memphis and beyond The Rhodes College Department of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).

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PRESENTERS Donnie Ray Albert, dramatic baritone, is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, an alumnus of Louisiana State and Southern Methodist Universities, and sprang to international fame with his portrayal of the title role in the Houston Grand Opera production of Porgy and Bess and the ensuing Grammy-winning recording in 1977. The production went on to play on Broadway for 122 performances. In addition to being acclaimed as the greatest exponent of Gershwin’s Porgy, Mr. Albert has sung principal roles in Treemonisha, The Flying Dutchman, Aida, Macbeth, Nabucco, Ernani, Il Trovatore, Otello, Rigoletto, Boris Godunov, The Barber of Seville, Fidelio, Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, Faust, La Fanciulla del West, Turandot, Salome, and The Emperor Jones, in some of the world’s most prestigious opera houses of North America and Europe including New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Boston, Canada, Cologne, Florence, and La Scala Milan. He won his second and third Grammy awards for the recording of Kurt Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny with the Los Angeles Opera. He has appeared with the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Donnie Ray Albert Philharmonic and most major orchestras in the U.S. In addition to the Grammy-winning recordings of Porgy and Bess and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Albert’s discography includes recorded music of the African Diaspora; Blumenfeld: Vers Satanique; Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau; Zemlinsky: Choral Works, Orchestral Songs; Liszt: St. Stanislaus; Blumenfeld: Mythologies; Donnie Ray Albert in Recital; A Clear Midnight; and Tearless. Further information on Albert may be found on his website: www.donnierayalbert.com. Diana Allan, soprano, has appeared in operatic and concert performances throughout the Mid- and Southwest and has performed in Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Brazil. In addition to her performing, Allan has over 25 years university teaching experience and currently teaches on the faculty of The University of Texas at San Antonio. As a certified Peak Performance Coach (2010), Allan works with musicians to help them assess and identify their unique strengths and challenges, to formulate customized Peak Performance Plans, and to help them learn and improve the mental skills necessary to prepare and perform at peak levels. Allan is co-author of The Relaxed Musician: Mental Preparation for Confident Performances. Her website, Peak Performance for Musicians, has a readership of performers from 151 countries. Diana Allan Mezzo-soprano Quinn Patrick Ankrum is in demand as an artist, voice teacher, clinician, and conference presenter. She champions contemporary music and combines her artistic craft with a singing technique founded in the principles of the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping in conjunction with the pedagogy of Richard Miller. She is a Licensed Andover Educator Trainee. Ankrum received degrees from Trinity University in San Antonio and the University of Colorado at Boulder, followed by participation in the Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program and the Baltimore Opera Studio. She was a NATS Intern in 2004 and completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music in 2010, studying with Robert McIver. She has been a finalist and winner in numerous regional and national competitions, including NATSAA (2nd place winner, 2006). Ankrum is currently assistant professor of voice at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

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Stephen F. Austin is associate professor of voice and vocal pedagogy and chair of the Division of Vocal Studies at the University of North Texas College of Music in Denton, Texas. After receiving a masters degree in vocal performance at the University of North Texas, Austin went on to complete the Ph.D. in Voice Science in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of Iowa under the direction of Dr. Ingo Titze.

Stephen F. Austin

Austin is an active author, performer, lecturer, and continues to conduct research in the area of articulatory behavior in classically trained singers. He has presented recitals, lectures, and workshops across the country, is a frequent guest in Australia and has presented to international audiences around Europe. He is regularly featured on the faculty of the Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice sponsored by the Voice Foundation every June in Philadelphia. He has made presentations to the national conventions of the American Speech and Hearing Association, the Music Teachers National Association and the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). Austin’s articles on applied vocal pedagogy have been published in Australian Voice, the journal of the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing and in Journal of Singing. His scientific contributions have been published in the Journal of Voice.

Austin teaches three different pedagogy classes at UNT, one at the undergraduate level and two graduate courses that form the core for a related field in pedagogy at both the masters and doctoral levels. He has been teaching voice pedagogy at the university level for almost 25 years. He is a regular contributing author to Journal of Singing in his column, "Provenance," a look at important historical sources and their continuing influence on pedagogical practice. Austin has students singing leading roles in professional opera houses in Germany and the United States and is especially proud to have many former singers and choral directors who completed their related field study in voice pedagogy under his guidance who hold academic appointments throughout the U.S. #NATSinBoston

PRESENTERS Kate Baldwin earned 2010 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critic’s Circle Award nominations for her starring role in the 2009 revival of Finian’s Rainbow. She recently completed Big Fish on Broadway playing Sandra Bloom. Previously, she starred in Fiorello! at City Center Encores and Giant as Leslie Lyntonn Benedict at The Public Theater, for which she received a Drama Desk nomination. Baldwin has appeared in the Broadway casts of The Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Wonderful Town. She starred in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto), The Women at The Old Globe, Henry V at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, I Do, I Do at Westport Country Playhouse, She Loves Me at the Willliamstown Theatre Festival, and South Pacific at Arena Stage, earning a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Baldwin has performed in concert with the New York Pops, with the American Songbook series at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and at Kate Baldwin the legendary New York nightclubs Feinstein’s at the Regency and Birdland. Her concert work also includes several appearances with Stephen Sondheim as a featured performer in his critically acclaimed evening, “A Conversation with Stephen Sondheim.” She has sung as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra and the River Concert Series. On television, her work includes a guest star on NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” and a featured role in the PBS filming of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion. Baldwin’s debut album on PS Classics, “Let’s See What Happens” features Lane and Harburg songs from both stage and film. Her second album celebrates the work of lyricist Sheldon Harnick and is entitled, “She Loves Him.” Both are available at www.psclassics.com. Jodi Barth (PT, CCI, from Ithaca College) is a licensed physical therapist with over 27 years of experience in the field of rehabilitation. She is a certified clinical instructor through the American Physical Therapy Association. Currently, Barth is regional manager and Facial Palsy and TMJ program specialist for NRH Regional Rehab, a member of Medstar Health in the Jodi Barth Washington, D.C., metro area. The facility provides acute care and treatment for longstanding cases of Bells, facial paralysis and TMJ dysfunction She has spoken both locally and internationally on facial palsy treatment as well as evaluation and importance of postural alignment. She was a clinician at the 2009 and 2010 NATS Intern Program and a presenter at the 2010 NATS National Conference in Salt Lake City. She collaborated with Martha Randall and Gincy Stezar at the 2012 Voice Foundation Symposium.

C. Andrew Blosser, a native of Belle Center, Ohio, has performed roles in opera and music theatre and presented master classes and recitals throughout the United States, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Switzerland. Blosser received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Music Education from the Conservatory of Music at Capital University, a Master of Music in Voice Performance, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from C. Andrew Blosser The Ohio State University. Blosser serves as a senior lecturer of voice at The Ohio State University where he teaches applied voice, performance literature, and diction courses. He is the tenor soloist and section leader at First Community Church in Columbus, where he sings in the Chamber Singers and Chancel Choir. Blosser holds professional memberships with the National Association of Teachers of Singers (NATS), the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA), the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society, and Phi Mu Alpha.

VP Boyle serves as chief operating officer of Relativity School, the only higher education institution in partnership with a major motion picture studio. Boyle oversees the development, operations and curriculum of collaborative-based intensives and degree programs in business, film, media and performing arts. Boyle is an awardwinning filmmaker and one of Broadway’s VP Boyle premier audition coaches with over 20 years of experience on and off the stage. Boyle has worked with actors of every age throughout the US. Boyle created the Musical Theatre Forum, a high-exposure casting workshop that introduces participants to guest speakers from every major casting agency in New York. His book, Audition Freedom: The Irreverent Wellness Guide for Theatre People can be found at Barnes & Noble, Amazon and iTunes.

Kenneth Bozeman, professor of music, holds performance degrees from Baylor University and the University of Arizona, and studied at the Conservatory of Music in Munich. He is chair of the voice department at Lawrence University, where he has received two awards for excellence in teaching. He was awarded the Van Lawrence Fellowship by the Voice Foundation and NATS for his interest in voice science and Kenneth Bozeman is the chair of the editorial board of Journal of Singing. His students have sung with major houses, including Houston Grand Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and Santa Fe Opera. He has been a frequent presenter at voice science conferences, has written several articles on voice acoustics, especially in training the male passaggio, and a book, Practical Vocal Acoustics: Pedagogic Applications for Teachers and Singers. Mr. Bozeman was a master teacher for the 2013 NATS Intern Program at Vanderbilt University.

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Laura Brooks Rice

Mezzo-soprano Laura Brooks Rice has won acclaim on the opera and concert stage for her rich, warm voice, musicality, charm and sensitive acting ability. Since 1985, Rice has been teaching at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, where she is professor of voice. In addition to teaching private voice, Brooks Rice teaches courses in opera: The Singing Actor: Opera and Opera Auditions: Techniques and Preparation and has also been the coordinator of the opera program. Along with her teaching at Westminster, Brooks Rice has a private studio and has been a vocal consultant to the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Program as well as the Domingo-Cafritz Program with the Washington Opera. Her private students are currently singing as regular principal artists at The Metropolitan Opera, Washington Opera, New York City Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Ft. Worth Opera, Dayton Opera, Minnesota Opera, Nashville Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Mobile Opera, Maggio Musicale, Opera Omaha, Portland Opera, Knoxville Opera, San Diego Opera, Lake George Opera, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Opera North, Central City, Atlanta Opera and Aix en Provence.

Brooks Rice is on the steering committee for the Singer Training Forum under the auspices of Opera America. She is member of the board of advisors of Astral Artistic Services as well as the Princeton Festival. She has served as a judge on the panels of the National NATSAA Competition and Astral Artistic Services Annual Auditions. She is the co-director of one of Westminster’s newest programs, the CoOPERAtive Program, a three-week intensive opera-training program. In a diverse repertoire, including Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, Elgar’s Sea Pictures, Brahm’s Alto Rhapsody and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Brooks Rice has appeared from coast to coast in the United States in concerts and recitals. In recent seasons she has appeared with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on several occasions in works including Handel’s Messiah, which she has also performed with numerous other orchestras nationwide. She has performed with the New Jersey Symphony, Bethlehem Bach Festival and Boulder Bach Festival. She made her Mostly Mozart Festival debut singing the role of Apollo in Mozart’s Apollo and Hyacinth, has been heard in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with San Francisco, Atlanta, San Diego and New Jersey Symphonies with conductors, Kurt Masur, Kurt Sanderling, Robert Shaw and Hugh Wolf. In the 1992-93 season Brooks Rice made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Wowkle in La Fanciulla del West. Following her debut in 1981 with the San Francisco Opera as Grimgerde in Die Walküre she has appeared with that company in several productions, performing such roles as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Varvara in Katya Kabanova and Suzuki in Madame Butterfly. She has also performed with the Spoleto Festival (Italy) in Honneger’s King David. A participant in the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, she sang numerous performances as an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera Center. Brooks Rice will be teacher in residence at the Santa Fe Opera later this summer. Mezzo-soprano Karie Brown was awarded the Ed.M. in Music and Music Education from Teacher’s College, Columbia University and the M.M. in Opera from Philadelphia’s prestigious Curtis Institute of Music. She has sung leading roles with New Orleans Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Carolina, Virginia Opera, Opera Memphis, and the Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau, Germany, and Karie Brown has sung concerts with orchestras and recital series throughout the U.S. For the last 15 years, Brown has taught elementary and early childhood music in public, private and charter school settings; she is currently the music teacher at Harlem Village Academy Elementary School and the director of children’s music at Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, where she directs the toddler music program, the Cherub Choir for kindergartners and preschoolers, and the World Music Drumming Ensemble for junior and senior high school students. Brown has presented her research into the development of children’s singing voices at conferences of The International Society for Music Education (ISME), the Voice Foundation, and to collegiate music educators at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University.

Karen Brunssen, mezzo-soprano, is co-chair of music performance and associate professor, in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. Her singing career has spanned over 30 years. Recent engagements included Bach Cantata 94, Thomaskirche, Leipzig; Mahler’s 3rd Symphony with Northwestern University, European tour of Verdi’s, Requiem, and Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appetit. She has presented Karen Brunssen and conducted master classes for the 2012 NATS Convention, 2011 and 2012 NATS National Workshops in Milwaukee and Memphis, numerous NATS Chapters, American Choral Directors Association, Classical Singer Convention, Association of Teachers of Singing (England), Opera America, and Chorus America. In 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013 she had teaching residencies at Cambridge University. She has taught at the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Italy, the Zurcher Sing-Akademie in Switzerland, the Castleton Festival and was honored to be a master teacher for the 2013 NATS Intern Program. In fall 2013, she was inducted into the highly-esteemed American Academy of Teachers of Singing.

Soprano Abra K. Bush earned a Bachelor of Music in Voice and Master of Music in Opera Theater from Oberlin College Conservatory and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice from The Ohio State University. She has won the state and regional NATSAA Competition, was a 2003 NATS Intern, has served as the regional NATSAA Competition site coordinator (2008), North Dakota NATS state treasurer (2007-2008), and Minnesota NATS Mentoring Committee (2004-2008). Bush has taught voice and related subjects at Kenyon College and Concordia College, served as the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Assessment at the Eastman School of Music, and is currently the Director of the Music Division at The Boston Conservatory. She remains an active performer and consultant on student learning outcomes assessment in the arts. #NATSinBoston

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In Support of Fact- Based Voice Pedagogy and Terminology Our new paper, Creative Accomplishment in Promotion and Tenure: A Realistic Look at the Expectations for Singing Teachers in Academia, also will be made available at the session The American Academy of Teachers of Singing was founded in 1922 by a group of fifteen professional teachers of voice. In the formation of the organization, the founders were motivated by a desire to contribute to the improvement of the voice teaching profession, from both a pedagogical and an ethical standpoint. The founding members reasoned that a large organization would not find it practical to undertake this type of contribution, nor could they themselves hope to make such contributions individually. Consequently, they took for their province matters that, in their opinion, could best be handled by a small group. They limited the membership to forty, believing that a small group, inspired by a common motive, pledged to a spirit of selflessness, and banded together for the purpose of initiating, then furthering constructive activities, might well justify the existence of such an organization. They called themselves the American Academy of Teachers of Singing. Chair Martha L. Randall

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PRESENTERS Judith E. Carman, music review columnist, Journal of Singing, holds the DMA in vocal performance and pedagogy from the University of Iowa where she studied with Herald I. Stark. Her dissertation, Twentieth-Century American Song Cycles: A Study in Circle Imagery, initiated the research for the first edition of Art Song in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography, of which she was editor. She is also editor of the third and fourth editions of the bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2001, 2013). Carman taught studio voice and related subjects at the university level, and maintained a private voice studio in Houston, Texas, 1979—2007. She was the vocal literature presenter at the NATS Summer Intern Program from 2002—2004. The author of Yoga for Singing: A Developmental Tool for Technique and Performance, Carman gave three presentations of Yoga for Singers at the NATS/NOA Winter Workshop/Conference in Los Angeles in 2008. Judith E Carman Christopher Correlli is an educator and artist from Baltimore, Maryland. Having earned degrees in Vocal Performance from Goucher College and Towson University, he is now pursuing the PhD in Education from Notre Dame of Maryland University. Correlli has been seen on the opera and recital stage throughout Maryland with Baltimore Opera Company, Lyric Opera Christopher Correlli Baltimore, Baltimore Concert Opera, the Young Victorian Theatre Company, and Opera AACC, among others. Equally at home behind the piano or podium, Correlli has participated in several opera productions as music director/accompanist. He is on the voice faculties of Towson University and Goucher College, where he also conducts the Goucher Chamber Singers. He is a worship arts pastor at Mountain Christian Church in Harford County, Maryland, where he resides with his wife, Bethany, and their two children.

Penny Crochiere is a Pilates evangelist and loves every minute of it. She is Stott Certified and Master Certified under Lolita San Menguel, one of two remaining instructors directly certified by Joseph Pilates. Crochiere’s business is the Pilates by Penny Studio in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She is certified in Poolates, CoreAlign, Power Plate, SmartBells and Pilates Barre. Crochiere Penny Crochiere teaches core, posture, breathing and balance programs at both the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley Technical College. Crochiere’s career began as a dance instructor teaching tap, ballet and jazz. She expanded to teaching aerobics and personal fitness. After developing expertise in Pilates, she taught Pilates to physical therapists at the Glendale Adventist Medical Center in California, along with several physical practices in Eau Claire. Crochiere continues to study, practice and teach Pilates, believing that stabilizing core muscles is critical to any physical challenge. She has authored the Pilates Ten Commandments as a guide for maintaining good health through Pilates.

Emerging from a classical background into the New York City contemporary music scene as performer, then teacher, Melissa Cross evolved a unique method of vocal training that culminated in the critically acclaimed release of two vocal instructional DVDs, “The Zen of Screaming” (Alfred Music 2005) and “Zen of Screaming 2" (Alfred Music 2007). Melissa’s approach combines accepted and informed vocal mechanics, acoustics and neuroscience into a functional, easily understood visual language. The method teaches dynamic registration with coordinated breath pressure allowing spontaneity, control, endurance and confidence. Testimonials from her well-known students confirm that traditional basics of vocal technique can be applied to even the most unorthodox of musical genres. The “Zen of Screaming 2” DVD further explores more specific usage of the technique as it applies to extreme heavy metal rock vocals. Melissa Cross

Melissa graduated from The Interlochen Arts Academy and The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the United Kingdom. She has been teaching in New York City for 24 years. Soprano Margaret Cusack is a winner of the International American Music Competition at Carnegie Hall and made her New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in 1987. She made her New York City Opera debut as Micaela in Carmen and her Metropolitan Opera debut in Elektra under the baton of James Levine. She has sung extensively in regional opera, with major symphonies in the United States and on three continents, and in recital throughout the country.

Margaret Cusack

Cusack is currently professor of voice and chair of the Piano and Voice Department at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, where she also teaches opera literature. Her current and former students have sung at the San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington Opera, Virginia Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Glimmerglass Opera, the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Stuttgart Opera in Germany. She earned a Bachelor of Music in voice performance and a Master of Music in teaching at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Cusack was recently elected to join the American Academy of Teachers of Singing. #NATSinBoston

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PRESENTERS Julia Davids, enjoys a thriving career as a singer, conductor, and music educator. She is the Stephen J. Hendrickson Director of Choral Activities at North Park University, Chicago where she directs the University Choir and Chamber Singers and teaches music education and conducting. Davids is an accomplished soprano soloist, specializing in early music. She is co-author with Stephen LaTour of the acclaimed book Vocal Technique – A Guide for Conductors, Teachers, and Singers, published by Waveland Press. Davids is the artistic director of the Canadian Chamber Choir, music director for the North Shore Choral Society, and director of music ministries at Trinity United Methodist Church. With over 20 years of experience teaching voice, she is sought after as a clinician and guest conductor. A native of Canada, Davids has degrees in music education, voice performance, and conducting from the University of Western Ontario, the University of Michigan, and Northwestern University. . Julia Davids Rollo Dilworth is associate professor of choral music education and chair of music education and therapy at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in choral music education, Dilworth is conductor of the Temple University Community Chorus. His choral publications Rollo Dilworth can be found in the catalogs of Hal Leonard, Colla Voce, and Santa Barbara. His choral pedagogy book entitled Choir Builders: Fundamental Vocal Techniques for General and Classroom Use has been widely circulated among elementary, secondary, community, and church choral directors. Dilworth frequently serves as a guest conductor and/or clinician for festival and all-state choirs throughout the United States and abroad. His research interests are in the area of adolescent vocal development, social justice, social-emotional learning, diversity, and inclusion in choral settings. He currently serves as Repertoire and Standards Chair for Youth and Student Activities for the Eastern Division of the American Choral Directors Association, and is Chairman for the Chorus America Board of Directors.

Kathryn Proctor Duax

Kathryn Proctor Duax, professor emerita of music at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, taught for 37 years and served as Coordinator of the Voice and Choral Area. Following her retirement from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, she enjoyed teaching for one year at the University of Texas at San Antonio. A native Texan, she holds degrees from Austin College, the University of Minnesota, and a DMA from the University of Iowa where she studied with Herald I. Stark.

Proctor Duax has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Florentine Opera, the Minnesota Bach Society, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Dallas Summer Musicals. She has sung under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies, Robert Shaw, Roger Wagner, and Lukas Foss. Her students are successful teachers and performers, including a Metropolitan Opera winner and international artists in opera and music theater. Proctor Duax served as the NATS vice president for discretionary funds and field activities and currently is the president of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Matthew Edwards earned his B.M. in Vocal Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and his M.M. in Vocal Performance from Louisiana State University. His current and former students have performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, in national and international tours, at theme parks, on national television (including American Idol), major motion picture soundtracks, and have appeared on the Billboard music charts. A leading researcher on healthy vocal production of pop/rock styles, his work has been presented at the Voice Foundation Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, the Musical Theatre Educator’s Alliance National and International conferences, The Southeastern Theatre Conference, the Virginia Theatre Association, the International Congress of Voice Teachers, and in publications including Southern Theatre, American Music Teacher, and VoicePrints. He has also authored chapters on audio technology for Dictionary for the Modern Singer by Dr. Matthew Hoch (Scarecrow Press, 2013) and The Hybrid Singer: Bridging the Gap Between Art and Science for the 21st century Vocal Athlete Matthew Edwards by Dr. Wendy LeBorgne and Marci Rosenburg (Plural Publishing, 2014). His college audition blog, AuditioningForCollege.com, has received wide recognition and over 300,000 views since its launch in 2011. He is currently working on his first book So You Want To Sing Rock? to be published by Rowan & Littlefield in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. He has peformed over 30 roles in opera and musical theatre with companies including New Jersey Opera, Tri-Cities Opera, Ashlawn Opera, Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, Dayton Pops, Cincinnatti Opera Outreach, Lyric Opera Cleveland Outreach, Bay View Music Festival, Atlantic Coast Opera Festival, Theatre Lab (Dayton), KNOW Theatre, and many others. He has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Dayton Opera Competition, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. In 2009, he completed the prestigious NATS Intern program where he was mentored by Jeanette LoVetri and Scott McCoy. He is currently assistant professor of voice at Shenandoah University where he has designed their unique pop/rock training program for music theater majors, the first of its kind in the United States. In the summer, he serves as faculty for the Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute where he offers courses on teaching voice with audio technology. Online at EdwardsVoice.com, CCMInstitute.com, and AuditioningForCollege.com. #NATSinBoston 63

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PRESENTERS Robert Edwin has gained international recognition as a singer, songwriter, teacher, and author. He has sung Bach cantatas in church cathedrals, rock songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses, and has recorded two CDs of original music Robert Edwin-Christian Songs and, More to Life-Robert Edwin Sings Songs by Crosby & Edwin. Robert’s diverse performing career is matched by an equally Robert Edwin diverse teaching career as he preaches what he practices at his independent studio in Cinnaminson, NJ. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Singing; a chapter author for the 2012 Oxford University Press, Handbook of Music Education; a frequent faculty member at the Voice Foundation’s Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice; an instructor on the child voice training DVD, The Kid & the Singing Teacher; and an active member of the distinguished American Academy of Teachers of Singing. www. robertedwinstudio.com

Robin Fisher studied voice in Vienna and Hamburg as a Fulbright Scholar, receiving a graduate degree from the University of Vienna. While in Europe, Fisher performed leading roles in opera to critical acclaim. Most recently she appeared as Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Sacramento Opera and in concert with the Sacramento Choral Society. Fisher’s many recital appearances attest to her love Robin Fisher for the art song. She has recorded works for flute and soprano with Laurel Zucker (The Nightingale Sings), and a compact disc recording of sacred American art songs with pianist Dalton Baldwin (God be in my Heart). Publications include Selected Writings of John Duke 1917-1984 and a revised edition of American Art Song & American Poetry, both co-authored with scholar Ruth C. Friedberg. She holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and is professor of voice at California State University, Sacramento.

Tod Fitzpatrick (B.M. Chapman University; M.M. & D.M.A. University of Southern California), associate professor of music in voice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is an active singer and teacher. Interested in a variety of vocal repertoire, his performance experience includes over 40 operatic and music theater roles in addition to a substantial number of oratorio and concert works. He also has a passion for song recitals and new works for voice. In December of 2013 he appeared as the Father in Virko Baley’s opera Holodomor at the National Opera in Ukraine. Other ensembles with which he has sung include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Pacific, the Virginia Symphony, Virginia Opera, the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra, the Sacramento Choral Society, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and the Utah Festival Opera Company. Tod Fitzpatrick

Mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato has brought versatility to both her singing and teaching careers. In her lengthy singing career, she has won many awards, including those from the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions, the Naumburg Prize in Chamber Music, the C.D. Jackson prize at Tanglewood twice, and, most recently, alumni achievement awards from both the New England Conservatory of Music, and Bucknell University, as well as the Jacobo Peri Award for Achievement in the Vocal Field. Professionally, she has created leading roles for such companies as the New York City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Kentucky Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera, Rochester Opera, and Opera San Jose. As a concert and oratorio soloist, Fortunato has appeared internationally as a 12-year member of the Bach Aria Group, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra, New York’s Musica Sacra, the Boston Camerata, Rome’s Bach Festival Orchestra, the Telemann Chamber Orchestra of Japan, and Berlin’s Spectrum Concerts, among many others. Her festival appearances are numerous, as are her singing engagements with the top 10 American orchestras. She has 40 CD’s to her credit, including eight premiere Handel Opera CD’s (amongst them, the Grammy-nominated “Imeneo”), and awardwinning recordings of the songs of Amy Beach, and Charles-Martin Loeffler. First performances have included works of John Harbison, Roger Sessions, Stephen Albert, Elliot Carter, Milton Babbitt, Daniel Pinkham, and John Heiss, among others.

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Fortunato has conducted master classes and clinics throughout the U.S., especially as an expert in American 20th Century Music, Baroque Performance Practice, and Women Composers. Summers have included teaching assignments at Songfest (14 years), Bach Aria Seminars and Seminars at the Carmel Bach Festival. Her students presently are performing in prestigious young artist programs, as well as extensively on the concert and opera stages in the U.S. and abroad.

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PRESENTERS Patrick K. Freer is professor of choral music education at Georgia State University where he conducts the Choral Union. He holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and Teachers College, Columbia University. He has guest conducted or presented in 36 states and 17 countries. He will conduct 2014-15 honor choirs in China and Thailand and in the states of Colorado, Georgia, Oklahoma, New York, and Tennessee. His 2014-15 schedule includes research, presentations and/or teaching graduate courses in Belgium, Estonia, Singapore, and Spain, and in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington. Freer is the academic editor of Music Educators Journal and has authored over 80 articles in most of the field’s leading national and international journals. Publications include Getting Started with Middle School Chorus (named outstanding Academic Title by Choice), and the acclaimed DVD series Success for Adolescent Singers. Patrick K. Freer

Ruth C. Friedberg holds an M.A. in musicology from the University of North Carolina and has taught at Duke University, the New School of Music in Philadelphia, and numerous Texas universities. She performed for 10 years as keyboard artist with the San Antonio Symphony as well as in chamber music and vocal recitals in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Asia. Friedberg’s Ruth C. Friedberg publications include a recorded anthology called Art Song in America, entries in the Grove’s Dictionaries of Music, The Complete Pianist, the first edition of American Art Song and American Poetry and the 15-volume series Art Songs by American Women Composers. Her most recent publications, written in collaboration with Robin Fisher, have been Selected Writings of John Duke (2007) and the second edition of American Art Song and American Poetry (2012).

American Baritone Andrew Garland is best known for his highly communicative style of singing. Equally at home in opera, concert and recital, he brings to each genre a powerful voice and extremely sensitive delivery. Engagements during the 2013-2014 season include Papageno in The Magic Flute with Boston Lyric Opera, a double bill of Silvio in Andrew Garland Pagliacci and Carmina Burana with Hawaii Opera Theatre, and concerts with Colorado Bach Ensemble, Boston Baroque, as well as many recitals. Career highlights include leading roles with Seattle Opera, Dayton Opera, Atlanta Opera, Knoxville Opera, Cincinnati Opera, New York City Opera, Opera New Jersey, as well as performances at Carnegie Hall. Recordings include American Portraits (GPR Records) with pianist Donna Loewy, Lee Holby: A Pocket of Time (Naxos), and On the Other Shore (Azica).

The large roster of artists with whom pianist Margo Garrett has long performing relationships include sopranos Kathleen Battle, Barbara Bonney, Elizabeth Futral, Beverly Hoch, the late Judith Raskin, Lucy Shelton, Dawn Upshaw, Benita Valente, mezzo Shirley Close, tenors Anthony Dean Griffey and Paul Sperry, violinists Jaime Laredo and Daniel Phillips, violist Paul Neubauer, cellists Sharon Robinson, Matt Haimowitz, the late Stephen Kates, and clarinetist David Shifrin. With these and other artists, Ms. Garrett has premiered over 30 works. Her recordings can be found on Albany, CRI, Deutsche Grammophon (1992 Grammy for Best Vocal Recital), Dorian, Musical Heritage Society, Nonesuch, Orion and Sony Classical.

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A devoted teacher, Garrett headed the newly created Collaborative Piano Department at The Juilliard School from 1985–1991 and subsequently became the first holder of the Ethel Alice Hitchcock Chair in Accompanying and Vocal Coaching at the University of Minnesota’s School of Music, the first privately endowed collaborative chair in the US. In 2000, she returned to and remains a member of The Juilliard School’s Collaborative Piano faculty. Garrett directed the Tanglewood Music Center vocal fellowship program for the last six of her 19 years of teaching there (1979-1997), was awarded the 1989 American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) Most Creative Programming Award and, from 1999 through 2006, was Faculty Chair of The Steans Institute for Young Artist’s vocal and chamber music programs at Chicago Symphony’s Ravinia Festival. Recent seasons have found Garrett in residence at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, a judge at the 15th International Schumann Vocal Competition (2008) in Zwickau, Germany, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and Joy in Singing, both in New York, in residence at Vancouver International Song Institute, Taiwan Normal Teacher’s University, The Music Academy of the West, at the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Neumarkt, Germany and at The Mannes School. Ms. Garrett’s latest recording, the songs and vocal chamber music of Philip Lasser, for Delos and with sopranos Elizabeth Futral and Susanna Phillips, was released in early 2013. #NATSinBoston

PRESENTERS Soprano Jeanne Goffi-Fynn remains active both as a performer and teacher in the New York City area. Goffi-Fynn received her doctorate from Columbia University, Teachers College where she is a lecturer and Director of the Doctoral Cohort Program in the Program of Music and Music Education. She continues working in the area of vocology, specifically in the retraining of singers, after completing internships at the Grabscheid Voice Center and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. She has presented workshops and pedagogical presentations with NATS, The Voice Foundation, New York Singing Teachers Association, College Music Society, ACDA, NYSSMA and International Society for Music Education. She is currently a member of the American Academy of Teachers of Singing, serves as a participant at National Opera Association roundtables, and is an NATS chapter board member. Her recent publication is entitled “Collaboration and Conquest: MTD” published in Journal of Voice, 2012. Jeanne Goffi-Fynn

As both a performer and researcher in the science of singing and voice training, soprano Felicity Graham brings a multi-faceted approach to her teaching. Drawing from both the arts and sciences, she combines musicality and artistry with practical techniques taken from all aspects of voice science. Graham is an active researcher in the areas of vocal science and pedagogy. Together, with Jeanne Goffi-Fynn, she has presented at the Voice Foundation’s Annual Symposium on the subject of the treatment of disorders in the singing voice. Since her New York recital debut, Felicity has been a frequent performer of concert music, in addition to her work in opera. A champion of American music, she has given the world premieres of two new pieces written for her by noted New York composer Steve Cohen, in addition to premiering many other pieces from a range of composers. She holds the Master in Music and Music Education (Vocal Pedagogy) degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science in Vocal Performance from Tennessee State University. Along with her own private studio work, she is on the faculty at the Harrison School of Music, Sabella-Mills Voice Studios and TruVoice Studios NYC. Kathryn Green, director of both the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute and Shenandoah Conservatory’s graduate vocal pedagogy program, has been instrumental in developing the Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Pedagogy program and initiating the first Master of Music degree in CCM Voice in the United States. Her research providing an analysis of current casting trends in Musical Theatre was presented at The Voice Foundation’s 42nd Annual Symposium in 2013 and is awaiting publication in Journal of Voice. Her previous research has included a 10-year tracking of market trends in collegiate voice teaching positions presented at the Voice Foundation and a survey of voice pedagogy graduate programs in the United States at the Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVOC) in Dresden, Germany. She has appeared with the Erie and Buffalo Philharmonics as alto soloist in several oratorio performances. Her other roles have included Carmen (Carmen), Juditha Triumphant (Juditha), Gianni Schicchi (Zita), Seven Deadly Sins (Anna), Madame Butterfly (Suzuki), Hansel and Gretel (Witch) and Suor Angelica (Principessa). Green received her DMA in Performance at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and a substantial scholarship from the state of New York to research the Hymnody of the Seneca Native Americans, which became her doctoral thesis. She has been a guest clinician throughout the United States and internationally, including the Universität der Künste Berlin and Hochschule der Künste Lübeck in Germany.

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Baritone David Grogan, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, has performed extensively throughout the Southwest to critical acclaim. The Dallas Morning News hailed Grogan as the “perfect Christus” in the St. Matthew Passion with the Dallas Bach Society. The Albuquerque Tribune, in reference to Messiah with the New Mexico Symphony, said, “David Grogan had all the range and power required of the part, sounding like the voice of doom in ‘The people that walked in darkness’ and the light of revelation in ‘The trumpet shall sound.’” A recent performance of Elijah had critics praising his ability to “move easily from stentorian declamation to lyrical aria.” A recent highlight for Grogan was performing the bass solos in Brahms’ Requiem under the direction of Helmuth Rilling. Grogan is a proud alumnus of the NATS Intern Program, studying with master teacher John Van Cura in 2003. David Grogan

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NEC offers one of the world’s most distinguished voice faculties as part of a rich, dynamic community. Here you’ll enjoy amazing relationships with Luretta Bybee, Jane Eaglen, Karen Holvik, Carole Haber, Michael Meraw, Bradley Williams, Lisa Saffer, Lorraine Nubar and Patricia Misslin. It’s a remarkable environment with ample, developmentally appropriate opportunities for all vocalists, both undergraduate and graduate. Find out more about some of the people who make it so at necmusic.edu/myteacher.

PRESENTERS Karen Hall, soprano, attended the University of Houston, where she graduated with Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in vocal performance. Additional study in operetta was completed at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria. In 2006, she graduated from Columbia University, Teachers College with a Doctor of Education degree. The Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Vocal Pedagogy Institute has certified her at levels I, II, and III. Jeannette LoVetri was an integral part of Hall’s doctoral dissertation work, which explored music theater voice pedagogy. Her research and subsequent teaching guide concerning music theater vocal pedagogy--An Introductory Guide for Teaching Music Theater Vocal Pedagogy and Styles: Designed for Singers and Experienced Classical Teachers--has been recognized by the College Music Society, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Voice Symposium and the Athens Institute for Education and Research in the form of invitations to present poster presentations and lectures. In 2012 Hall was appointed one of six associate editors of Journal of Singing, She was also selected as a NATS Intern Program participant in 1995.

Karen Hall

A versatile performer, Hall has performed in opera, operetta, concert, oratorio, recital, chamber music, and music theatre throughout the United States, most notably on the PBS special Masterclass, with the Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony, Seattle Civic Light Opera, Hidden Valley Opera, and the Victor Herbert Festival Ensemble in Saratoga Springs, NY. She has four recordings to her credit: The Frogs and Sweeney Todd, American Songs in Recital, and the Pulitzer-prize winning recording On the Transmigration of Souls by John Adams, recorded with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Hall resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, serves as the series editor for So You Want to Sing: A Guide for Professionals, a series of vocal pedagogy books produced in partnership with Rowan & Littlefield Publishers and the National Association of Teachers of Singing, teaches in her private studio Songwerks, travels as a Professional Adjudicator for the Music Development Program (MDP), is updating her music theater vocal pedagogy teaching guide for publication by Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, and continues research on CCM voice pedagogy.

Lucinda Halstead

Lucinda Halstead, MD is associate professor in the departments of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. She received her MD degree from George Washington University and completed her residency in the Combined Tufts University – Boston University Otolaryngology Residency Program.

Dr. Halstead’s interests in voice, performing arts medicine and pediatric voice led her to found the MUSC Voice Center in 1987. In 2000, the Voice Center expanded and she became the Medical Director of the MUSC Evelyn Trammell Institute for Voice and Swallowing. She is the laryngologist for the internationally renowned Spoleto Festival USA and lectures nationally and internationally on the topics of vocal health, disorders of the singing voice, laryngopharyngeal reflux and pediatric voice disorders. Among other societies, she is a member of the Colligium Medicorum Theatri, Voice Foundation, Performing Arts Medicine Association and the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology.

Jake Heggie is the American composer of the operas Moby-Dick, Dead Man Walking, Three Decembers, To Hell and Back, and Out of Darkness. He has also composed some 250 songs, as well as chamber, choral, and orchestral works. The operas – most created with the distinguished writers Terrence McNally and Gene Scheer – have been produced on five Jake Heggie continents. Moby-Dick was telecast in 2013 as part of Great Performances’ 40th Season and receives its East Coast premiere in 2014 at the Kennedy Center. It was recently released on DVD (EuroArts) and is the subject of the book Heggie & Scheer’s MobyDick – A Grand Opera for the 21st Century (UNT Press). New commissions include Great Scott for The Dallas Opera, starring Joyce DiDonato; songs for Kiri Te Kanawa (Ravinia); and songs for mezzo Jamie Barton (Pittsburgh Symphony, Carnegie Hall). Here/After (PentaTone) is Heggie’s latest recording, featuring DiDonato, Talise Trevigne, Stephen Costello and Nathan Gunn.

Lynn Helding has sung throughout the United States, Australia, Austria, England, France, Germany, Spain, Iceland and Italy. She serves as an associate editor for Journal of Singing where her regular column, "Mindful Voice," illuminates research in the new “science of mind.” Helding studied voice at the University of Montana, in Vienna, Austria and at Indiana University, where she was the first singer accepted to pursue the artist diploma in voice. She earned the masters degree in vocal pedagogy from Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and studied vocology at the Summer Vocology Institute of the National Center for Voice and Speech. In 2005, she was awarded the Van Lawrence Fellowship, given jointly by the Voice and NATS Foundations to recognize excellence in teaching and foster research in voice science. Lynn Helding is currently associate professor of voice and director of performance studies at Dickinson College. #NATSinBoston

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FEATURED GUEST ARTIST Praised by the New York Times for his “ceaseless curiosity,” Thomas Hampson enjoys a singular international career as an opera singer, recording artist, and “ambassador of song,” maintaining an active interest in research, education, musical outreach and technology. The American baritone has performed in the world’s most important concert halls and opera houses with many renowned singers, pianists, conductors, and orchestras. Recently honored as a Metropolitan Opera Guild “Met Mastersinger,” he is one of the most respected, innovative, and sought-after soloists performing today.

contemporary, in 2011 the baritone created the role of Rick Rescorla in the San Francisco Opera’s world premiere production of Christopher Theofanidis’s Heart of a Soldier, which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Other important firsts for Hampson in the 201112 season included his role debuts as Iago in Otello and in the title role of Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler, both at Zurich Opera, as well as his house role debut as Verdi’s Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera.

Hampson was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has won worldwide On the opera stage next season, the baritone looks recognition for thoughtfully researched and creatively forward to making his role debut as the eponymous constructed programs that explore the rich repertoire antihero of Berg’s Wozzeck at the Metropolitan Opera, in of song in a wide range of styles, languages, and a production featuring Deborah Voigt and led by James periods. Through the Hampsong Foundation (www. Levine. Hampson will also reprise his star turn in the title hampsongfoundation.org), founded in 2003, he employs Thomas Hampson - Baritone role of Simon Boccanegra at the Vienna Staatsoper, and the art of song to promote intercultural dialogue and revisit such signature parts as Amfortas in Parsifal at Lyric Opera of Chicago (as well as understanding. He is one of the most important interpreters of German Romantic in concert with the National Symphony); Giorgio Germont in La traviata at the Bavarian song and with his celebrated “Song of America” project (www.songofamerica.net), a State Opera; Mandryka in Arabella at the Salzburg Festival; and Scarpia in Tosca at both collaboration with the Library of Congress, he has become known as the “Ambassador the Deutsche Oper Berlin and London’s Royal Opera House. In the concert hall, he will of American song.” open the season in performances of Eisler’s Ernste Gesänge with Christian Thielemann The singer’s commitment to cross-cultural communication through music and text and the Staatskapelle Dresden, and looks forward to singing Brahms, Schubert, was showcased in CNN’s “Fusion Journeys” series, for which Hampson was filmed and Wolf on a twelve-stop European tour with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Other in South Africa in a musical exchange with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The past orchestral collaborations will include programs of arias and duets with Luca Pisaroni season also saw the debut of the “Song of America” radio series, co-produced by the in Prague, Bratislava, Essen, Baden-Baden, and Paris, and selections from Des Knaben Hampsong Foundation and the WFMT Radio Network of Chicago. Conceived and Wunderhorn with the BBC Scottish Symphony. The baritone will take his celebrated hosted by the baritone, the series consists of 13 hour-long programs exploring the lieder recitals to London’s Wigmore Hall, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and to Coburg, history of American culture through song, and has aired in more than 250 U.S. markets. Heidelberg, Brussels, and Berne. A passionate teacher, Hampson will return for master classes to both the Manhattan In the 2012-13 season, Hampson’s operatic engagements brimmed with Verdi, from his company role debut as Iago in Otello at the Metropolitan Opera to singing Giorgio Germont at the Vienna State Opera. Having wowed critics in the title role of Simon Boccanegra at Chicago’s Lyric, the baritone reprised the Doge – in concert and live recording, which is due for fall release – at Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and looks forward to closing the season in the role at London’s Royal Opera House. It was as Scarpia that he opened the present season at Santa Fe Opera, and he revisited the role at Zurich Opera, where he also portrayed Wolfram in Tannhäuser. He returns to Wagner in summer 2013, singing Amfortas in Parsifal at the Munich Opera Festival, before rejoining the Salzburg Festival as Rodrigo in a new Pappano/Stein production of Verdi’s Don Carlo. Hampson’s recent international concert and recital engagements include performances in New York, Munich, London, Vienna, San Francisco, and more. He made gala appearances at Baden-Baden’s Festspielhaus on New Year’s Eve and celebrated the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s 125th anniversary in Amsterdam. His collaborative projects also included a European tour with the Wiener Virtuosen, an appearance with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, and concerts with the Jupiter String Quartet – featuring a world premiere by Mark Adamo – in New York, Boston, and Davis, California. Other artistic partnerships included performances with the Los Angeles, London, Munich, and Israel Philharmonics, and the National Symphony. Internationally recognized for his versatility in operatic repertoire both classical and 70

School of Music’s Distance Learning program and Heidelberger Frühling’s Lied Academy, of which he is the co-founder and artistic director. Hailing from Spokane, Washington, Hampson has received many honors and awards for his probing artistry and cultural leadership. Comprising more than 150 albums, his discography includes winners of a Grammy Award, five Edison Awards, and the Grand Prix du Disque. He received the 2009 Distinguished Artistic Leadership Award from the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, and was appointed the New York Philharmonic’s first Artist-in-Residence. In 2010 he was honored with a Living Legend Award by the Library of Congress, where he serves as Special Advisor to the Study and Performance of Music in America. A 2011 recipient of the famed Concertgebouw Prize, Hampson also holds honorary doctorates from Manhattan School of Music, Whitworth College, and San Francisco Conservatory, besides being an honorary member of London’s Royal Academy of Music. He carries the titles of Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera and Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the Republic of France, and was awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor in Arts and Sciences. In 2011 Hampson was again named ECHO Klassik's Singer of the Year, marking the fourth time he has received that distinction over a 20-year period. For more information, please visit www.thomashampson.com. © 21C Media Group, May 2013

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Robert E. Hillman

Robert E. Hillman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is currently co-director and research director of the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research Programs and Adjunct Professor (Communication Sciences and Disorders) MGH Institute of Health Professions.

Hillman received his bachelor’s (1974) and masters (1975) degrees in speech-language pathology from Pennsylvania State University where he was also voted the 1974 Ernest B. McCoy Award as the outstanding senior scholar-athlete. After becoming clinically certified in speechlanguage pathology, Hillman went on to receive a doctorate in speech science from Purdue University in 1980. Since receiving his doctorate, Hillman has been awarded over 25 grants from governmental and private sources to support his research. He has had research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1984. His research and over 100 publications have focused on mechanisms for normal and disordered voice production, evaluation and development of methods for alaryngeal (laryngectomy) speech rehabilitation, development of objective physiologic and acoustic measures of voice and speech production, and evaluation of methods used to treat voice disorders. In the past, Hillman has been actively involved in the design and review of research programs at NIH, having served on the “Expert Panel on Voice and Voice Disorders to Update the National Strategic Research Plan” for the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, as a project site visitor for the National Cancer Institute, and as a core member of the Motor Function and Speech Rehabilitation Study Section at the NIH Center for Scientific Review. He has also served as an editorial consultant and on the editorial boards of several professional journals, and has been

an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings (over 40 invited/ keynote lectures). Hillman is an elected Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and is one of only six speech-language pathologists in the country to be elected as an Associate Member of the American Laryngological Association (a physician’s organization). Additional awards include elected membership in Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society (1975); academic tenure at Boston University (1986); Certificate of Appreciation from the Veterans Administration Cooperative Studies Program (1991); Award of Merit from Sargent College at Boston University (1992); Editor’s Award from the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research of the American Speech-LanguageHearing Association for publication of the article of highest merit in speech research for 1996; Casselberry Award from the American Laryngological Association for co-authorship (with Dr. Steven Zeitels) of the outstanding manuscript in laryngology (1998); an Alumni Fellow Award from the Pennsylvania State University (2008) given by the President of the University to select alumni who are recognized leaders in their professions; the Broyles-Maloney Award from the American Bronchoesophalogical Association for outstanding accomplishments in advancing the art and science of bronchoesophagology (2010); the Manuel Garcia Prize (2010) from the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics for outstanding scientific contributions to the official journal of IALP and to the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders; the 2011 Willard R. Zemlin Lecture and Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Special Interest Division for Speech Science to recognize an outstanding speech scientist who has “demonstrated a record of outstanding contributions to the broad spectrum of issues concerning speech science.” In 2011 Hillman was given the “Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association” which is the highest award that the Association can bestow to “recognize individuals whose contributions have been of such excellence that they have enhanced or altered the course of the Professions”. More recently he received the 2013 Certificate of Achievement from the Voice Foundation.

Tenor Brian Horne is associate professor of voice, specializing in studio voice and voice pedagogy, at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He holds a bachelor's degree from Hiram College in Ohio as well as master's and doctoral degrees from the Jacobs School. He has taught at the University of Missouri and Shorter College and continues to perform and present master classes. Dr. Horne's former students perform at venues such as the Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Santa Fe, Opera Memphis, Atlanta Opera, Chicago Lyric, and Bayerishe Staatsoper (Munich), as well as with symphonies such as Colorado, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Melbourne, and Cleveland. His students have won competitions such as the Cardiff Singer of the World, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the $10,000 first prize in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Artist Awards, and awards such as Outstanding Performer in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and the Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year. His students have been finalists in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum competition, Music Teachers National Association Young Artist, Dallas Opera Guild, Opera Columbus Irma Cooper Vocal Competition, and the Mobile Opera Competition, and won career grants from the Richard Tucker and Merola Foundations.

Brian Horne

His students have participated in summer programs such as Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, Merola, Central City Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Opera New Jersey, and Des Moines Metro Opera, as well as in professional training programs such as the Academy of Vocal Arts and the Houston Opera Studio. Horne serves as president of the NATS Foundation and has been chosen to serve as a master teacher for the 2014 NATS Intern Program. As faculty sponsor of the Student NATS chapter at Indiana University, professor of the doctoral voice pedagogy courses, and research director for doctoral dissertations, he has mentored dozens of students into college teaching positions. He is a member of the American Academy of Teachers of Singing. #NATSinBoston

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Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Music, Advanced Music Studies Certificate and Artist Diploma in Vocal Performance.

Faculty

Jennifer Aylmer, soprano Maria Spacagna, soprano Mildred Miller Posvar, mezzo-soprano Douglas Ahlstedt, tenor Daniel Teadt, baritone music.cmu.edu

CALIFORNIA • HAWAII• NEVADA • ARIZONA• UTAH

The Cal-Western Region expresses gratitude to the following individuals for their outstanding work and dedication to our organization: Regional Governor:

Tod Fitzpatrick

District Governors: Wendy Hillhouse .............Northern California Michelle Latour ................Nevada Victoria Lavan ..................Southern California Deborah Raymond ...........Arizona David Schmidt..................Utah Chapter Presidents: Renee Calvo ....................San Diego Kristin Dauphinais ...........Southern Arizona Barbara Dyer ...................Los Angeles Vaida Falconbridge ..........Redwood Empire Robin Fisher .....................California Capital Shawna Gottfredson .......Northern Utah Alexis Davis Hazell ...........Valley of the Sun Maya Hoover ...................Honolulu Brigid de Jong .................Central California Linda Lister ......................Las Vegas Kenna Mills ......................Central Utah Victoria Rapanan .............San Francisco Bay Jennifer Russell ................Grand Canyon Auditions Coordinator

Rachel Velarde

PRESENTERS Described as remarkably virtuosic by the Columbus Republic and transcendent by the Daytona Beach News Journal, tenor Aaron Humble originally hails from Northeast Ohio. As a versatile and vibrant singer, teacher, and conductor, Humble thrives across many styles and genres. Humble has enjoyed experiences in recital, concert, and chamber music venues in nearly every state in the United States as well as in Canada, West Africa, Italy, France, the British Isles, the Caribbean, Oman, Dubai and Palestine where he served as a judge on Palestinian Idol. During his tenure with Cantus, Humble has enjoyed solo appearances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Boston Pops and has been heard numerous times on Performance Today and A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. When he’s not singing with Cantus, Humble teaches voice at McNally Smith College of Music, serves as the artistic director of the Minnesota Compline Choir and enjoys leading clinics and festivals.

Aaron Humble

Leslie Hunter is a licensed creative arts therapist, board certified music therapist and certified music educator who has been using music to enrich the lives of people with special needs since 1975. Working for most of her career in the public school setting, Hunter has presented numerous workshops on adapting music instruction for children with disabilities. She received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Kansas and has taught at Maryville University, the University of Kansas, Nazareth College, and the Eastman School of Music. She is a full-time music therapist with Monroe #1 - BOCES in Rochester, New York.

Murray Kidd

Leslie Hunter Murray Kidd has had a long association with Handel & Haydn Society and Boston Baroquetaking part in many of the world’s most prestigious music festivals including BBC Proms, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Edinburgh, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Boston Early Music Festival. He studied conducting with Dr. William Dehning at University of the Pacific and completed his masters degree at New England Conservatory, where he studied Historic Performance Practice with Daniel Pinkham. On the stage, Kidd has performed as tenor soloist with many premiere ensembles including: Boston Baroque, Handel & Haydn Society, Musicians of the Old Post Road, North Shore Philharmonic, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Abendmusik and Coro Allegro. Kidd is founder and director of the Boston Singers’ Relief Fund for professional singers of New England who are facing life-changing catastrophes, a program of Boston Singers’ Resource (BostonSingersResource.org).

Carla LeFevre has served for 24 years as voice professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She was the primary voice teacher for the National Opera Company for its two final seasons and continues to coach and teach young professionals in addition to her work at the university. LeFevre’s students have been regional finalists and national semifinalists of the Metropolitan Opera auditions, as well as winners of various other national competitions. They have gained acceptance to the young artist programs of 20 opera companies, including San Francisco, Santa Fe, Glimmerglass, Pittsburgh, Chautauqua, and Central City. LeFevre has presented pedagogy workshops for the Voice Foundation Symposium and the Pan-European Voice Conference, as well as university master classes throughout the country. Her research has focused on voice injuries/disorders and the methodology associated with appropriate therapeutic rehabilitation; and as such, she has worked with numerous injured singers throughout the therapeutic process.

Andrew Lippa

Carla LeFevre

Andrew Lippa wrote the words and music to the original theatrical oratorio I Am Harvey Milk that received its world premiere in San Francisco in June 2013 with the San Francisco Gay Mens’ Chorus starring Laura Benanti and Mr. Lippa as Harvey Milk. The recording, released in October 2013, reached No. 2 on the iTunes Classical Chart. He also wrote the music and lyrics for the musical Big Fish which opened on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre this past October. He wrote the Tony-nominated music and lyrics for the Broadway musical The Addams Family as well as the music for the Broadway production of Aaron Sorkin’s play The Farnsworth Invention. Other musicals include the Drama Desk award-winning musical The Wild Party (book/music/lyrics), A Little Princess (music), john & jen (music/book), Asphalt Beach (music/lyrics) and You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (additional music/lyrics and arrangements). Lippa was music director and conductor for Kristin Chenoweth’s sold-out shows at the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall and others. Accolades include a Tony and Grammy nomination, the Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Award, ASCAP’s Richard Rodgers/New Horizons Award, The Drama Desk and The Outer Critics Circle Award. Andrew Lippa is a graduate of the University of Michigan. #NATSinBoston

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DEGREE PROGRAMS

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THEATRE ARTS Acting

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014 MARCH 7, 2014 (THEATRE) MARCH 8, 2014 (MUSIC) APRIL 4, 2014

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plymouth.edu/mtd (603) 535-2334 MTD_DEPT@plymouth.edu Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance

PLYMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE

PRESENTERS Richard Lissemore is an internationally recognized voice teacher and performance coach who is equally at home coaching classical and non-classical genres of music. His myriad students perform on Broadway, at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, in both American and international touring productions and in theaters throughout the world. He has taught on the faculties of New York University, Rutgers University, Opera Music Theatre International (OMTI) and AMDA. Lissemore is especially well-known for his innovative and entertaining master classes and workshops, which have been presented in in London, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Seoul, Toronto, Monterrey, and New York City. He holds a BA in Microbiology and Music from Rutgers University (Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa), an MM in Vocal Performance from Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, and he attended The Juilliard Opera Center, where he was a full-scholarship student of Oren Brown’s. Lissemore is presently pursuing doctoral research in voice science in the lab of Dr. Douglas Whalen at The City University Of New York. www.RichardLissemore.com

Donna Hallen Loewy is field service professor of collaborative piano and accompanist-in-residence at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. A “superlative accompanist” (Virginia Gazette), Ms. Loewy has been the official pianist for the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in southern Ohio, the International Clarinet Conference, Congress of Strings, International Double Reed Society, Yamaha Young Performing Artists Winners Recitals, Tubamania (Sydney, Australia) and International Tuba and Euphonium Conference. She has worked as an opera coach with the Israel Vocal Arts Institute, Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca (Italy), International Institute of Vocal Arts (Italy), and Cincinnati Opera. Loewy prepared and accompanied many top prize winners of the NFMC Young Artist Competition and NATS Artist Awards, as well as Marilyn Horne Foundation sponsored recitals and residencies throughout the country. She has also been on the faculty of SongFest, Pianist-in-Residence at New Music on the Point and the Barcelona Festival of Song. Loewy is the voice consultant and co-author of the Inner Game of Music Vocal Workbook, written with Barry Green. Her CD with baritone Andrew Garland, On The Other Shore, featuring the folk song settings of Steven Mark Kohn, on Azica Records, has met with great critical acclaim. American Portraits, a much-celebrated new CD with Garland, on GPR Records, features music of Tom Cipullo, Jake Heggie, Lori Laitman, and Stephen Paulus.

Deanna McBroom has appeared throughout the United States and in Europe, featured in over 40 solo and oratorio roles, leading roles in over 30 operas/musicals, recitals, and chamber music. Recent highlights include a recital in Vienna, and concerts with Swedish National Opera singers for the Jussi Björling Society-USA. Frequently premiering new compositions, Deanna McBroom she has presented contemporary works for the Charleston Symphony’s Magnetic South Series and concerts for the International League of Women Composers and the American Music Center. She is director of the voice program/professor of music at College of Charleston, and Singing Voice Specialist at Medical University of South Carolina’s Voice Institute. Her students have attained successful national and international singing and acting/ film careers. In demand for master classes and adjudication for voice competitions, she also lectures internationally on rehabilitation/prevention for injured singers. McBroom is an honors graduate of both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Louisville.

Richard Lissemore

Donna Hallen Loewy

Soprano and pedagogue Lori McCann holds a D.M.A. and Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Currently assistant professor of voice at the John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University (NJ). Previous positions include NYU Steinhardt, Columbia University, Teacher’s College, and Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She has performed Lori McCann extensively in the United States and abroad. Roles include: Pamina, Countess, Fiordiligi, Second Lady, Mimi, Governess, Fulvia (Ezio, Händel), Fox, Giulia (La scala di seta), Iphigénie (Tauride), Mary Warren (Crucible). Orchestral repertoire includes Brahms, Mozart, Händel, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Mahler, Canteloube, Monteverdi, Bernstein. McCann has taught voice for 25 years. In addition to MSU she is on faculty at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Austria. She is serving her second term as president of NATS-NYC and is associate editor for New York Singing Teacher’s Association’s Newsletter, VOICEPrints.

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PRESENTERS

Sean McCarther

Sean McCarther serves as assistant professor of voice at Westminster Choir College where he teaches studio voice, undergraduate voice science, and co-teaches the graduate and undergraduate singing actor classes. McCarther’s movement-based performance pedagogy Body, Mind, and Voice Performance Training combines classical vocal training with several movement modalities. Together, they form a multifaceted movement pedagogy that frees the body from unnecessary tension, allows both effortless movement and easy, organic phonation, and helps students learn to actively engage their environment, their scene partners, and the audience with the highest potential expression. He has presented workshops in the BMV Training at the University of Texas, Vincennes University, and Westminster Choir College and is on faculty for the CoOPERAtive summer program where he teaches Movement for the Performer. McCarther is an apprentice of Adam and Melissa Noble, co-creators of the Dynamic Presence Project, a company focused on the revitalization of physical storytelling.

John McDonald is a composer who tries to play the piano and a pianist who tries to compose. He is currently professor of music and chair of the music department at Tufts University. His output features vocal, chamber, and solo instrumental works, and includes interdisciplinary projects.

John McDonald

Mezzo-soprano Lauren McNeese’s colorful, resonant voice and beautiful stage presence are quickly establishing her as a sought-out artist in the leading lyric mezzo-soprano repertoire. McNeese has had the pleasure of singing in many of the top houses in America including the MET, Lyric Opera of Chicago, LA Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Dallas Opera and San Francisco Opera. Career highlights include Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with Lyric Opera of Chicago conducted by Sir Andrew Davis; Giovanna Seymour in Anna Bolena with Minnesota Opera; The Ring Cycle with Lyric Opera of Chicago, LA Opera and San Francisco Opera; La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi at LA Opera directed by Woody Allen and conducted by James Conlon; L’enfant in L’enfant et les sortilèges with Opera Philadelphia and making her debut in the new MET production of Parsifal directed by François Girard.

Lauren McNeese

David Meyer is an active performer, teacher, clinician, and voice scientist. An associate professor of voice and voice pedagogy at Shenandoah University, Meyer’s students have won numerous awards and have sung in major venues worldwide. Meyer maintains an active and varied singing career, appearing frequently in opera, oratorio, and song recitals throughout the United States and abroad. He has sung internationally with many of the finest venues of Germany, England, Switzerland, and Poland. Meyer’s operatic repertoire includes the role of Scarpia (2009) in Puccini’s Tosca, Wozzeck in Berg’s Wozzeck, Horace Tabor in Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe, Balstrode in Britten’s Peter Grimes, and approximately 30 other roles. David Meyer

A student of the late Giorgio Tozzi, Meyer completed his graduate studies in music at Indiana University. He also holds a BM from the University of Iowa where he studied with Albert Gammon.

Cheri Montgomery is on the voice faculty at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. Her recent article “The Dynamic Diction Classroom” appeared in Journal of Singing. She is author of the Lyric Diction Workbook Series published by S.T.M. Publishers and co-author of Exploring Art Song Lyrics, Translation and Pronunciation of the Italian, German, and French Repertoire published by Oxford University Press. In her work with Oxford, she provided pronunciation and phonetic symbols (IPA) for over 750 Italian, German, and French art songs. The Lyric Diction Workbook Series is distributed worldwide through S.T.M. Publishers and the Voice Source in England. Her texts have been adopted by major universities across the United States, in Canada, and abroad. Montgomery is currently working on a phonetic system that will provide lyric transcriptions for singers who read Braille. #NATSinBoston

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Thank you to all of our 53rd National Conference Volunteers!

Thank You to all of our Volunteers!

To all who have generously volunteered their time prior to and during the 53rd National Conference in Boston, we extend our heartfelt and sincere gratitude for your service and dedication to our association. Our success would not be possible without your contribution. Our volunteers are an important part of what makes our organization great. We salute you and appreciate your service! A special thank you goes to Donna Ames, our volunteer coordinator for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conference.

The Central Region of NATS (Illinois, Iowa and Missouri)

Welcomes you to the 53rd NATS National Conference in Boston, Massachusetts Regional Governing Board Karen Brunssen, Governor Mary Jane Wilder, Anne Petrie, Sarah Holman, Past Governors District Governors Kathleen Van De Graaff, Illinois; Leanne Freeman-Miller, Iowa; Carol Chapman, Missouri Chapter Presidents David Hoffman, Chicago; Anthony Quaranta, Northern Illinois; R. Rosemary Gast, Iowa; Gail Dooley, Lewis and Clark; Katherine Cuba, St. Louis; Catherine C. Boone, Kansas City; Chris Thompson, Ozark

PRESENTERS Composer Robert Patterson is the winner of the 2014 NATS Art Song Composition Award with his composition American Pierrot: A Langston Hughes Songbook for baritone. Patterson’s music is infused with the popular rhythms and melodic fragments around him, and these provide source material for his personal voice. Recent commissions from the Iris Chamber Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra confirm an emerging interest in his innovative musical style that has led to performances in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as across the United States and Canada. He is also the founder and director of the Riverside Wind Consort, a small performing group dedicated to chamber music for wind instruments.

Robert Patterson

His compositions have received numerous awards, including the 1999 University of Michigan Bands Commission, the 1994 International Composition Prize from the City of Tarragona in Spain, and the 1990 Distinguished Composer of the Year award from the Music Teachers National Association.

Pianist Elvia Puccinelli is associate professor of vocal coaching and collaborative piano at the University of North Texas, where she has served since 2004, having held previous appointments with the University of Southern California and Baylor University. Twice invited to serve as rehearsal pianist for Seiji Ozawa, Puccinelli is currently in her 12th year on faculty with the renowned OperaWorks program. Puccinelli has appeared in song and chamber music recitals at such diverse performance events as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Chamber Concert Series, Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition, the International Trumpet Guild Conference, and the National Opera Association Competition. A published author on topics of song literature and collaborative piano, Puccinelli earned both MM and DMA from the University of Southern California and holds a degree in French. She has served as language consultant for Martha Gerhart’s acclaimed series Italian Song Texts from the 17th through the 20th Centuries. Elvia Puccinelli

Kari Ragan

Kari Ragan, is artist in residence teaching voice and voice pedagogy at the University of Washington in Seattle. Ragan holds degrees from Indiana University and the University of Washington. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship. This prestigious award presented jointly by The Voice Foundation and the National Association of Teachers of Singing has afforded the opportunity to research cool-down physiology for singers. Additionally, she was the recipient of the NATS Pedagogy Award, earned the NYSTA Distinguished Voice Professional Certificate and the Wicklund Singing Voice Specialist Certificate. Ragan works in affiliation with the UW Laryngology program, headed by Dr. Al Merati, to habilitate injured singers. Ragan has presented at conferences for NATS, NCVS and the Voice Foundation Symposium in addition to having several published articles. As a result of her three specialties (classical pedagogy, CCM pedagogy and an SVS) she is frequently sought after as a clinician and adjudicator for workshops and master classes.

Martha Randall, (Soprano, B.M., M.M. from the University of Kansas, Fulbright Scholar), a student of Todd Duncan for many years, teaches voice and voice pedagogy at the University of Maryland in College Park. She also maintains a private studio and works with both amateur and professional singers. She has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Constitution Hall, the Phillips Gallery, and performed with the National Symphony, Washington Bach Consort, and Kansas City Philharmonic. Former students are appearing at the Met, Covent Garden, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass and Central City. She was president of NATS from 2006-08 and as director of the NATS Intern Program included physical therapist Jodi Barth and Gincy Stezar as clinicians in 2009 and 2010. She is a member of the American Academy of Teachers of Singing, now serving as chair. She collaborated with Jodi Barth and Gincy Stezar at the 2012 Voice Foundation Symposium.

Martha Randall

Rita M. Resch, soprano, was born in North Dakota and earned a B.S.Ed. degree from Minot State University, an M.M. in music literature from Eastman School of Music, and an M.A. in English literature from University of North Dakota. She also holds an M.F.A. in vocal performance and a D.M.A. in piano chamber music and accompanying from University of Iowa. She taught at Fontbonne College (St. Louis), University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, and retired from University of Central Missouri (Warrensburg), as professor emerita of music after 31 years. Resch has been active as a recitalist, oratorio soloist, and collaborative pianist. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Music Teachers National Association, and Sigma Alpha Iota. Resch is a co-author of all four editions of Art Song in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Rita M. Resch

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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENT One of America’s most versatile tenors and enlightened musicians, George Shirley remains in demand nationally and internationally as performer, teacher, and lecturer. As performer, George Shirley has won international acclaim for his performances with the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera (Covent Garden, London), Deutsche Opera (Berlin), Teatro Colòn, (Buenos Aires), Netherlands Opera (Amsterdam), L’Opéra (Monte Carlo), New York City Opera, Scottish Opera (Glasgow), Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Glyndebourne Festival, and Santa Fe Opera, among others. He was the first black tenor and second African-American male to sing leading roles with the Metropolitan Opera, where he remained for 11 years as leading artist.

George Shirley

Throughout his 54-year career he has sung with major symphony orchestras around the globe including the Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Royal Philharmonic (London), New York Philharmonic, BBC, San Francisco, ORF (Vienna), New Philharmonia (London), and the Detroit Symphony. Conductors with whom Mr. Shirley has collaborated include Sir Georg Solti, Otto Klemperer, Igor Stravinsky, Jascha Horenstein, Sixten Erling, Eugene Ormandy, Sir Adrian Boult, Seiji Ozawa, Erich Leinsdorf, Bernard Haitink, Hans Swarovsky, Josef Krips, Leonard Bernstein, James DePreist, Fausto Cleva, Boris Goldovsky, Thomas Schippers, John Pritchard, Jorge Mester, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Muti, Dennis Russell Davies, Karl Böhm, Henry Lewis, Julius Rudel, Edo deWaart, John Nelson, Andrew Litton, and Herbert von Karajan. Accompanists with whom the tenor has shared the stage include William Bolcom, Jonathan Brice, Martin Isepp, Martin Katz, George Posell, Samuel Sanders, Charles Wadsworth, Howard Watkins, John Wustman, and Kelly Wyatt.

Shirley has recorded for RCA, COLUMBIA, DECCA, ANGEL, VANGUARD, CAPRICCIO, CRI, ALBANY, KOCH, and PHILIPS; he received a GRAMMY AWARD in 1968 for his role (Ferrando) in the prize-winning RCA recording of Mozart’s Così fan tutte, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. He performs the role of Schütze in the KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS recording of Richard Strauss’ last opera, Friedenstag, and his COLUMBIA recording of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, conducted by Pierre Boulez, was reissued in compact disc form by SONY RECORDS. Haydn’s Orlando Paladino, under the baton of Antal Dorati, and Mozart’s Idomeneo, led by Sir Colin Davis, both feature the tenor in the title roles of both operas for PHILIPS records. A recording in a somewhat new field for George Shirley was released on the CAPRICCIO label in the fall of 1996; it features the tenor as narrator of two poems by James Forsyth, Spirit of St. Louis and Ruth, set to the music of the late Franz Waxman; the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin is conducted by Lawrence Foster. The tenor collaborated with pianist William Bolcom on a 2003 ALBANY recording of the song cycle Battle Pieces written by Warren Michele Swenson to the Civil War poetry of Herman Melville. A new release of recorded live performances combined with excerpts from studio recordings has just been announced by HAMBURGER ARCHIV FÜR GESANGSKUNST. Each album consists of three CDs spanning 5 decades of opera and concert performances that capture, much of it in “real time,” the diversity of repertoire that characterizes the profile of George Shirley’s career.

In May, 1994 the tenor combined forces with renowned baritones Robert McFerrin Sr. and William Warfield, along with other artists, in a concert at Howard University in Washington, DC in support of plans for a Marian Anderson National Conservatory of Music. On April 9, 1994, George Shirley was inducted into the Philadelphia Academy of Vocal Arts Hall of Fame, along with Metropolitan Opera colleagues Tatiana Troyanos (post.), Charles Anthony, and Dominic Cossa. Mr. Shirley sang the role of Herod Antipas in Richard Strauss’ opera Salome with soprano Maria Ewing in the title role in the inaugural season of the Michigan Opera Theater’s new Detroit Opera House in June, 1996. The summer of 1998 found the tenor singing his first-ever staged performances of the role of Sportin’ Life in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Bregenz Festival in Austria.

In May, 1999, George Shirley performed the narrations in Charles Ives’ symphonic work Three Places in New England with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Adams. He sang the role of Eumete in Monteverdi’s opera Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria during the 1999 summer season of Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY. In January, 2003, he appeared in the cameo role of Roscoe in concert performances of Sondheim’s Follies at The Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan. These performances, given in celebration of the Theater’s 75th Anniversary, included four members of the original Broadway cast plus Tony Award winner Donna McKechnie. In October 2005 Mr. Shirley combined forces again with William Bolcom at the piano to perform an aria from the composer’s opera A View from the Bridge at the dedication of the new Arthur Miller Theatre on the campus of The University of Michigan. In February he joined University of Michigan faculty colleagues Geri Allen, Ellen Rowe, Robert Hurst, Donald Walden, Michael Gould, Ed Sarath, Dennis Wilson, and guest jazz greats Carmen Lundy and Jimmy Cobb in a performance of the late Mary Lou Williams’ Mass for jazz ensemble, soloists and choir. In April Shirley appeared as guest soloist on a concert at Jackson State University in Mississippi in an effort to raise funds to revive Opera/South, an opera company founded in that city in 1970 for the express purpose of providing African-Americans the opportunity to perform operatic roles. In March, 2013, he stepped in on fairly short notice to perform the role of Father Grenville in Eugene (OR) Opera’s production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking. As a teacher, George Shirley was selected as one of the Distinguished Scholar-Teachers for the school year 1985-86 at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he served as Professor of Voice from 1980 to 1987. In 1979 he was selected Andrew W. Mellon Humanist-in-Residence in the College of Liberal Arts at Howard University, and returned to that historic institution in 1986 as Visiting Professor in the Department of Music. The University of Iowa, Montclair State College (New Jersey), Howard University, Morgan State University, The University of the District of Columbia, Montgomery College (Maryland), the Baltimore School for the Arts, Hampton University (Virginia), the Cincinnati Conservatory, the Manhattan School of Music (NYC), Rust College (Mississippi), Louisiana State University, the Aspen Music School, the American Institute of Musical Studies (Graz, Austria), and The Cape Town (South Africa) School of Music are a few of the institutions that over the years have availed themselves of Professor Shirley’s skills.

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PRESENTERS

Eric Rieger

Tenor Eric Rieger is assistant professor of voice at Westminster Choir College where he teaches applied voice and lyric diction. Previously, he served on the faculties of Texas Tech University, Nazareth College, and ran a private studio in Germany for several years. A passionate language/diction specialist, he has coached singers throughout Europe and the United States. His European singing career has led him to the opera companies of Zürich, Luzern, Basel (Switzerland), Trier, Regensburg, Kaiserslautern, Bremerhaven, Osnabrück, Nordhausen, Konstanz (Germany), Novara (Italy), as well as Zomeropera Alden Biesen (Belgium), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Citizens Theatre (Scotland), and Everyman Palace Theatre (Ireland). In concert, he has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Basel Sinfonietta, St. John’s Orchestra (London), Luxembourg “Les Musiciens” Orchestra, Trier Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Monteverdi Festival (Italy), Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam). A dedicated recitalist, he is often heard in the U.S. and abroad.

Stella Dayrit Roden, soprano, has performed as a featured soloist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, New Britain Symphony, and the Connecticut Virtuosi. As resident artist with the Wichita Grand Opera, she performed the role of ‘Cousin’ in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and served as a member of the opera chorus for the 2011 season. In the summers of 2012 and 2013, she performed several concerts in Florence, Italy, a series sponsored by Accademia Europea di Firenze and Misericordia di Firenze, Piazza Duomo. Roden received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Connecticut, a Master of Music degree, Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from James Madison University. Roden has also been a finalist in prestigious competitions such as the Connecticut Opera Guild, the Austin Lyric Young Artist’s Competition, and the NATSAA New England Region competition. Stella Dayrit Roden

Sheri Sanders

Sheri Sanders, author of Rock The Audition, published by Hal Leonard, has taught her NYC based Rock Musical Audition master class at 34 colleges, universities and musical theatre programs in the last two years. Sanders’ performance techniques have brought her students not only to the Broadway stage, touring companies, and regional productions of Kinky Boots, Sting’sThe Last Ship, Here Lies Love at the Public, Bring It On, Jersey Boys, Spiderman, Memphis, Rock of Ages, Sister Act, Mamma Mia, American Idiot, Wicked, Rent, Hairspray, Legally Blonde and Regina Spektor’s Beauty, but also to The Voice, X Factor, American Idol, and The Glee Project. Because her workshops are changing the face of auditioning for musical theatre on the stage and screen, Broadway producers Ken Davenport and Hunter Arnold have just invested in Sheri to create ROCK THE PERFORMANCE, a website offering popular music cut and arranged for the piano, accompaniment MP3s, instructional videos, a workbook, and teacher training programs online for a global reach. Check Sheri out at www.rock-the-audition.com.

Emily Wolber Scheuring, MEd, CCC-SLP, is a clinical speech-language pathologist for the Duke Voice Care Center in RaleighDurham, NC. While her clinical experience spans the gamut of voice disorders, Wolber Scheuring holds special interest in the rehabilitation and wellness of the singing voice. She is a regular presenter at the community and national level and is currently investigating population-specific dysphonia prevention initiatives. An active mezzo-soprano, Wolber Scheuring has sung roles in productions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia and is currently working toward her MM in vocal performance and pedagogy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she is a student of Robert Wells. Emily Wolber Scheuring Lynn Shane is a 20-year NATS member, choral director and private voice teacher on the North Shore of Boston. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado and the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York, where she majored in voice performance and music education and studied voice with Anitra Lynch, Barbara Doscher and Barbara Sable. Currently, Shane is a music faculty member at Salem State University where she teaches voice and music education classes as well as directs the SSU Women’s Chorale. She is the founder and director of an online career resource for regional classical singers entitled Boston Singers’ Resource, www.BostonSingersResource.org Lynn Shane

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INDEPENDENT TEACHER FELLOWSHIP AWARDS The Independent Teacher Fellowship program was established in 2009 and designed to recognize and support independent teachers who do not hold full- or part-time teaching positions in a college or university. These grants help selected applicants attend sessions, network with colleagues, and enjoy all the benefits available at NATS national conferences. The fellowship includes a waiver of registration fees to a national conference.

Chadley Ballantyne Chicago, Illinois Central

Jennifer Heather Farrell Sackville, New Brunswick New EnglandÂ

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Newmarket, Ontario Eastern

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Fayetteville, Arkansas Southern

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Sunderland, Maryland Mid-Atlantic

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PRESENTERS Gincy L. Stezar, (PTA, CCI, University of Maryland, and Associate of Applied Science from Montgomery College) is a licensed physical therapist assistant with nine years of experience, with the last six years working with Jodi Barth specializing in the field of facial neuromuscular retraining, postural restoration and TMJ dysfunction. Stezar has received extensive training in the area of orthopedic and manual therapy that she brings to the treatment of her facial palsy and TMJ patients. She was a clinician at the 2009 and 2010 NATS Intern Program and co-presenter at the 2010 NATS National Conference in Salt Lake City. She collaborated with Jodi Barth and Martha Randall at the 2012 Voice Foundation Symposium. Gincy L. Stezar Jan Shapiro began her music studies at the Saint Louis Institute of Music and continued by earning her bachelor's degree, graduating cum laude from Howard University, Washington D.C., completing a master's degree in education from Cambridge College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her first major engagement at the Playboy Club in Saint Louis lasted more than six months—until she and her group went on the road, touring extensively. Subsequently she performed at the Camellia room in the Drake Hotel, Chicago, the Hyatt Hotels in Washington D.C., and Atlanta, The Top of the Tower Club, New York City, Marriott Hotels in Florida, Washington DC , the St. Louis Chase-Park Plaza Hotel, Sheraton Hotels and numerous hotels, supper clubs and jazz clubs in the US, Boston and the New England area. Shapiro was the featured vocalist for the prestigious Boston Globe Jazz Festival in 1987 and in 1990, leading off the Jazz Festival in 1990. Jan Shapiro

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As recording artist, Shapiro was the featured guest artist with the ‘Airmen of Note’-the official Jazz Ensemble of the US Air Force on a recording with international distribution. Her recordsing include Read Between The Lines, Not Commercial, and Back to Basics. Her most recent recording is Piano Bar After Hours. Jan was Chair of the Berklee Voice Department from 1997-2010.She presently holds the position of professor in the voice department at Berklee College of Music.

Joseph Stillitano has been teaching music in the Westborough Public Schools since 2001. He was both the high school and middle school choral director through 2012 and has since been the middle school choral director and general music teacher. He holds dual Bachelor of Music degrees in vocal performance and music education and a Masters of Music Education from Ithaca College. Other recent teaching engagements include being the founding conductor of the Handel & Haydn Society’s Young Men’s Chorus (2006-14) and voice/singing teacher at Boston University’s Summer Theatre Institute (2003-05). He was a former conductor of the Ithaca College Men’s Chorus and served as the MA ACDA Senior High School R&S Chair (2003-05). His choral arrangements have been heard in high school, middle school, elementary school, collegiate and community choirs throughout the Northeast. He regularly serves as a guest conductor and choral clinician for all age levels, but does most of his work with high school and middle school. He has also sung as a tenor soloist and member of the Masterworks Chorale and the Mystic Chorale.

Lisa Thorson is a popular Boston-based jazz vocalist, actress and music educator. She has performed at jazz clubs, on radio, on stage, in film and on television for over 35 years. Legendary jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan calls Thorson “one of the most exciting jazz singers on the scene today.” She has toured throughout the U.S., Canada and Italy as a concert artist and jazz vocal clinician. Thorson has released five jazz recordings as a leader. Her recording Out to Sea, a duo setting with pianist Cho Yoon Seung, received unanimous critical acclaim and international airplay. Critic and writer Michael Nastos hailed Resonance her quintet’s CD on GM Recordings as “one of the very best musical offerings of the year, and an astonishing vocal document.” Thorson received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from the Boston Conservatory and a Master’s Degree in Jazz Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory. She is a professor in the voice department at Berklee College of Music where she has taught technique, Lisa Thorson style, improvisation, performance and history since 1996. In 2013 Lisa received the Distinguished Faculty Award from Berklee celebrating her accomplishments in the field of voice and jazz education. Lisa has also taught private lessons, ensembles and improvisation at Longy School of Music, New England Conservatory and Wellesley College. She has been a guest artist and clinician at numerous schools and festivals throughout the US and Italy. She is a certified instructor of Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method. In addition to her work as a vocal and jazz educator, Lisa’s current projects include her jazz quintet, Duo, Boswellmania; A Tribute to the Boswell Sisters and JazzArtSigns ®, a multi-media, multi-sensory event. #NATSinBoston

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Emily Toronto

Mezzo-soprano Emily Toronto is associate professor of music and director of opera at South Dakota State University. A Utah native, Toronto received both a Master of Music degree and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan. She has performed nationally with numerous artistic companies including Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Opera, Michigan Opera Works, the Ann Arbor Festival of Song, the South Dakota Symphony and Sounds of South Dakota. In opera, her professional highlights include the role of Thisbe in La Cenerentola, the role of the Mother in The Consul, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro and the Lakota/Norwegian Mother in the Heartland Opera premiere of the chamber opera The Trickster and the Troll. Her performance of Antonia’s Mother in a Michigan Opera Theatre production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann was described by Mark Stryker of the Detroit Free Press as “the night’s finest hour.” She is also active in bringing opera to young audiences and has performed in over 75 presentations of operas for children in schools throughout South Dakota, Ohio and Michigan

Nancy Walker, soprano, has taught voice at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 1985. Her degrees are from Indiana University (DM), University of Colorado (MM), and Hastings College (BM). Walker’s students have won awards and participated in numerous young artist programs and competitions around the country, and she has many former students who teach at all levels. Recitals and oratorio performances have taken her around the country and abroad, including Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Italy, Germany and China. She was a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera auditions and a national finalist in NATSAA. Walker has served NATS as district treasurer, regional governor (Mid-Atlantic), and as national vice president (NATSAA). Walker’s research has included the songs of Josephine Lang (Fulbright Grant Munich 1998) and observing German voice teachers, 200405. She has given master classes across the country and taught voice in China and Germany.

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Jacob Keith Watson is a native of Wynne, Arkansas, and a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University. In April 2014, Jacob Keith made his Broadway debut as a Swing in the original Broadway cast of Jeanine Tesori’s Violet starring Sutton Foster. Some of his other favorite roles include Feste in Twelfth Night, Horton in Seussical the Musical, Frederic in Pirates of Penzance, Naphtali/Calypso Soloist in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Scranton Slim/M.C. in Guys and Dolls, Iago (U/S) in Othello, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Corin in As You Like It, Trevor Graydon in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sir Harry in Once Upon a Mattress, Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie. Recent awards include second place in the prestigious international Lotte Lenya Competition with the Kurt Weill Foundation, first place in the first-ever NATS National Music Theater Competition, and Best Stage Presence/Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Concert work includes a Golden Age celebration concert tour in Germany titled New York, New York and Kurt Weill on Broadway at Symphony Space in New York City.

Baritone Robert Wells is currently associate professor of voice and coordinator of vocal pedagogy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music, Theatre and Dance. He holds MM and DMA degrees in voice from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His students have been recognized for their achievements in regional, national, and Robert Wells international performances and competitions, and they have been young artists with programs including Glimmerglass, Chautauqua, Opera North, Opera Carolina, Arizona Opera, Brevard Music Center, and Seagle Colony. Numerous current and former students of Wells hold faculty positions at the university level and in public and private schools throughout the country.

Jay White, countertenor, sang eight seasons with the internationally acclaimed ensemble Chanticleer, appearing in major venues throughout the world and with whom he recorded 14 albums, two of which garnered GRAMMY® Awards. Remaining true to his roots as a chorister, White has sung with other professional ensembles including Spire Chamber Ensemble (Kansas City), Carmel (CA) Bach Festival Chorale, Apollo’s Singers (Cleveland), and Quire Cleveland.

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As a clinician on vocal and choral pedagogies, White has presented at several regional and national gatherings including sessions at the 2009 Voice Symposium, the 2009 Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium, three NATS national conferences, and two OMEA conferences.

A frequent recitalist, Wells has also enjoyed an active career in both oratorio and opera in the United States as well as Great Britain and Europe. An active choral conductor, After receiving his training at Indiana University and the University of Maryland, Wells serves as director of music for First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro and has White has taught at the University of Maryland, Columbia Union College (MD), the been recognized for his work with numerous professional and community choral University of Delaware, DePauw University, and is currently an associate professor of organizations. Wells is currently governor of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the National voice at Kent State University (OH). Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and served as president of the North Carolina Chapter of NATS. #NATSinBoston 85

2014 EMERGING LEADER AWARDS A grant program for young teachers of singing designed to recognize and support NATS teachers with no more than 10 years of teaching experience, this grant helps selected winners attend sessions, network with colleagues, and enjoy all the benefits available at NATS conferences.

National Association of Teachers of Singing and the NATS Foundation Congratulate the Winners!

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Marion K. Russell Dickson Kingwood, Texas Texoma

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Destrehan, Louisiana Southern

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Christianne Rushton Wolfville, Nova Scotia New England

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PRESENTERS Stephen Wood is an emeritus professor of law at the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School. He received his JD from the University of Utah and his JSD from Columbia University and Universitaet Muenchen in Munich, Germany. Wood has served in numerous leadership positions within the discipline of the law, including director of the American Association for the Comparative Study of Law, guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and as a consultant to both United States Department of Labor and the Administrative Conference of the United States. He has been honored as a Jervey Fellow in Foreign and Comparative Law, as assistant editor of the Utah Law Review, as a member of the Order of the Coif, as a guest lecturer in Beijing and Shanghai on the Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China, and as honorary director of the German American Law Association.

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Richard (Rick) Walters is vice president of classical and vocal publications at Hal Leonard Corporation, the world’s largest source for printed music. He directs G. Schirmer publications, Boosey & Hawkes publications, musical theatre publications, and in the Hal Leonard European operation oversees publications of Ricordi, Durand and Salabert. Walters has been responsible for a renaissance in vocal music editions, conceiving, editing and directing hundreds of classical and musical theatre publications, including more than 70 art song editions in The Vocal Library series, the 27-volume series The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, the five-volume Sondheim for Singers, the four-volume G. Schirmer American Aria Anthology, the four-volume Oratorio Anthology, Bernstein Theatre Songs, Samuel Barber: 65 Songs, the four-volume Musical Theatre for Classical Singers, Britten Collected Songs, and many others. He was educated with a bachelor’s degree in piano from Simpson College, where he studied opera coaching with Robert Larsen, and graduate study in composition at the University of Minnesota with Dominick Argento. He has worked in various capacities in musical theatre.

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Jennifer Youngs made her main stage Dallas Opera debut in the 2012-2013 season as Olimpia in Argento’s The Aspern Papers and is an emerging artist with The Dallas Opera, where in the 2011-2012 season she played the role of Laurette in the production of Bizet’s Dr. Miracle. She has also been featured in recitals with composers Jake Heggie, Dominick Agrento, and Dave Brubeck. Opera roles include Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Birdie in Regina, Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, Casilda in The Gondoliers, and Clorinda in La Cenerentola. On the concert stage she has been the soprano soloist for performances of Mahler’s 4th Symphony, Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Bach’s Cantata #110, Brahms Requiem, Mozart’s Exsulate, jubilate, and Mozart’s Requiem.

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Youngs has been a Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant nominee, winner of the Lois Alba Aria Competition, winner of the Kansas City District of the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions, and a semifinalist in the Loren Zachary Vocal Competition. She is a member of the voice faculty at Texas Woman’s University where she teaches voice and opera and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of North Texas. She holds a master's degree and a bachelor's degree from The University of the Pacific.

Steven Marc Zeitels (Eugene Casey Professor of Laryngeal Surgery: Harvard Medical School and Director: Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center) contributions to voice restoration research are highly recognized worldwide. He has authored more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters while receiving more than 75 awards and honored lectureships. His techniques were featured in a National Geographic documentary, highlighting Zeitels’ microsurgery on Steven Tyler (Aerosmith). Zeitels’ novel surgical treatment of Roger Daltrey (The Who) just prior to his halftime performance in the 2010 Super Bowl was discussed extensively on CBS. In 2012, there was broad international coverage of Zeitels’ unique microsurgery to restore Adele’s voice, and she thanked him during the acceptance of the first of her six Grammy awards. In 2013, Google founder Larry Page provided substantial support to Zeitels and his patients’ nonprofit Voice Health Institute (VHI) to advance their pioneering achievements in voice restoration. Other patients of Zeitels supporting the VHI include Julie Andrews, Lionel Richie, Christina Perri, and Keith Urban.

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Voice and Opera Faculty Theresa Brancaccio, mezzo-soprano Karen Brunssen, mezzo-soprano Nancy Gustafson, soprano Kurt Hansen, tenor Pamela Hinchman, soprano Sunny Joy Langton, soprano W. Stephen Smith, baritone Michael Ehrman, director of opera Philip Kraus, opera Richard Boldrey, coach Alan Darling, coach Kenneth Smith, coach

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