Teaching Positions & Selected Master Classes

University Positions

Associate Professor, University of North Texas, 2007-present. Private lessons, studio class, coaching of singers in UNT Collegium and UNT Opera, election committee, evaluation of university administrators committee, fine arts series committee, distinguished lecture series committee

Associate Professor, University of Kentucky–Lexington, 2005-2007. Private voice lessons, opera workshop, opera direction, master classes, studio classes, early music topics, curriculum committee, Lexington Opera Society UK faculty board member

Senior Lecturer in Voice, Stanford University, 1996-2005. Private voice lessons, vocal literature and performance class, opera direction, repertoire classes that included: 17th century arias and cantatas; French, German, Spanish, English & Italian art song; opera scenes; vocal chamber music; solo recital design and preparation; re-introduced fully-staged opera production with orchestra after a 20-year hiatus, created a vocal & instrumental early music collegium chair of Performance Committee (40+ performance full and part-time faculty), chair of ChamberMusicLive committee (annual faculty-based chamber music festival).

Summer Workshops

University of Kentucky and Lexington Opera Society Summer Opera Theater, 2006
Master classes in vocal technique and coaching of roles; stage direction, make-up, costume, and period gesture tutorials, with Stephen Penn, co-artistic director and Jim Rodgers, co-stage director

San Francisco Early Music Society, Baroque and Medieval/Renaissance Workshops, 2002-2008
Master classes, ensemble coaching, lute-song classes in English, French, Spanish and Italian, directed "A Florentine Intermezzo"

International Baroque Institute at Longy, 2003-2004
Master classes, ensemble coaching, concerts, lecture/demo: Airs de Cour

Lake Placid Institute Vocal Seminars, 1998-2003
Master classes, tutorials and workshops for young professional singers, with international faculty that included Martin Katz, William Warfield, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Lucy Shelton, Mark Wildman, Ian Partridge, Kathleen Kelly, Evelyn Lear, Susan Webb, and Thomas Stewart

Amherst Early Music Festival, 1998-2003
Lectures:  "Bach's Choir & Mendelssohn" and "Performance Practice in Airs de Cour" for Central Program and Baroque Academy, master classes, seminars, private lessons, in context of 65 member international faculty drawn from the field of early music— aimed at training young professionals and serious amateurs

Madison Early Music Festival, 2001
Coached young professional and amateur singers in ensembles and solo repertoire, Italian and English 17th century

Historical Harp Conference at Case Western Reserve University, 2001
Co-taught classes of mixed ensembles with musicologist Egberto Bermudez, Spanish 17th century repertoire, taught vocal technique classes to singers and harpists,  ensemble coaching: 17th century Italian repertoire for voice and harp

Pierrot Ensemble Chamber Music Workshop at C.W. Post, 1995
Coached ensembles, morning masterclasses, and private lesson coaching emphasising style and technique, as well as performing in faculty concerts with the Pierrot Ensemble

Master Classes

University of California, San Diego, 2008
Coaching of graduate and undergraduate singers on contemporary and early music performance practice, technique and style

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008
Coaching of graduate and undergraduate singers emphasizing repertoire, style, technique, rhetoric, and dramatic presentation of operatic arias

Astoria Festival, Astoria, Oregon, 2007
Coached seven young artists in Baroque and Classical repertory, addressing style, ornamentation, and dramatic presentation.

Kentucky Opera Theatre Young Artists Program, 2006
Coached four young artists, in both master class and private-lesson settings, on roles and arias being prepared for upcoming auditions, KOT tours and KOT mainstage productions

Eastern Kentucky University, 2006
Coaching of undergraduate singers on 17th and 18th century style and technique, also French language and style

San Francisco Conservatory, 2002-2004
Coaching, in a master class setting, of singers involved in SFC's production of Handel's Semele, lectures on style and ornamentation for singers in 17th and 18th century music, Performance Practice Seminar

Royal Academy of Music, London, UK, 2001
Master Class with students preparing for solo performance careers, in repertoire of Monteverdi, Strozzi, Handel, and Bach.

Peabody Conservatory of Music, 2001
Demo concert presentation and master class with Peabody vocal students in repertoire of Purcell, Handel and Bach, eight singers in a wide range of repertoire from the 17th and 18th centuries

Mannes College, Old Dominion University, C. W. Post University, 1996-1998
Coaching professional singers in matters of baroque style, including ornamentation, phrasing, articulation and tone color, also coaching advanced university students on vocal technique, baroque style and gesture for staged performances

San Francisco Opera Young Artists Program, Susan Webb, Director, 1997
Coached participants in the Opera Center's production of Handel's Ezio on matters of style in musical and staging; lecture/demonstration of vocal ornamentation and period-style stage gesture

New York City Opera School Program, 1995
Program introduces New York City high school students to opera through lecture/demonstration