Teaching Positions & Selected Master Classes

University Positions

Associate Professor, University of North Texas, since 2007. 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

Selected Master Classes

Peabody Conservatory of Music 2001, 2013
Mini-concert, Master Classes, and private lessons on repertoire of Purcell, Handel and Bach, Strozzi, Handel, etc.

Oberlin College 2006, 2013
Residency, teaching master classes, private technique lessons, coaching ensembles, classes in stagecraft, and performance in concerts, as part of the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College faculty

Universities of Alabama, Louisville, Morehead, Florida Gulf Coast, The City College of NY
2012-2013
Master Classes and Residencies in style and technique, coaching of opera scenes, private lessons, lecture-demos

The 80th Annual Bach Festival at Baldwin-Wallace College 2012
Featured event: Master class for singers in repertoire of J. S. Bach, on technique, style, and interpretation, ticketed event advertised on Festival poster, in Festival program and brochure

The Enchanted Isle Vocal Workshop, Chaminade University, Honolulu Hawaii 2010-2013
Co-faculty:David Tayler, lute; Hanneke van Proosdij, recorder, harpsichord, organ; Timothy Carney, musicology/choir director

San Francisco State University 2011
Master class, graduate and undergraduate vocal students, vocal technique and repertoire coaching

The Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College 2011
Master class and ensemble coaching for singers and instrumentalists, advanced vocal students

Music Institute of Chicago 2009, 2010
Master classes in Baroque Performance Practice and vocal technique for students from Roosevelt University, Northwestern University, and University of Chicago

UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, San Jose State 2008
Masterclasses for vocal students at all levels, undergraduate to DMA’s and PhD’s

San Francisco Early Music Sociaty, Baroque and Medieval/Renaissance Workshops 2002-2008
Master classes, ensemble coaching, lute-song classes in English, French, and Italian

Lexington Opera Society Opera Workshop 2006
Daily master classes and opera direction

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

Lake Placid Institute Vocal Seminars 1998-2003
Master classes, tutorials and workshops for young professional singers, faculty included Martin Katz, William Warfield, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, 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"
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

San Francisco Conservatory 2002-2003
Coaching, in 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
Mini-concert and Master class with Peabody vocal students in repertoire of Purcell, Handel and Bach

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

Historical Harp Conference, 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

Master Classes: 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; 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