Education
Academic Honors
2013 January Featured speaker at Symposium which inaugurated the photographic exhibit Puccini e Lucca a Chicago: "Tempo in La bohème"
2012 July Rome (Italy) Presenter at conference of the International Musicological Society: “Puccini's Instrumental Revisions”; session chairperson of “20th Century Music Theater” [link]
2011 June Featured speaker at Puccini Work in Progress/Sviluppi della ricerca pucciniana sponsored by the Centro di studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca (Italy) [link]
2010 December First-Place Winner of competitive international prize Premio Rotary Puccini Ricerca 2010; commission of 200-page monograph and cash prize on the topic “Tempo in the Operas of Giacomo Puccini” [link]
Experience
2022 - now
Fresno Pacific University, Fresno California (USA) private university, a fully accredited liberal arts college since 1965 (the only accredited Christian university serving the San Joaquin Valley), expressing the Mennonite Brethren commitment to leadership and pro-active advocacy for peace and community reconciliation. [link]
- Adjunct Music Faculty: coach singers in vocal technique, interpretation and repertory ranging from opera/art song, worship music, and musical theater to pop/jazz; teach Italian/French/German diction and vocal pedagogy
2013-2022
SIAS University, Xinzheng, under Zhengzhou University, Henan Province (P.R. China) private university with 400 undergraduate voice majors [link]
- Director - Western Music Research Center/Full time Music Faculty: coach singers and singing instructors in western opera, teach Italian/French/German diction, Italian language for musicians, vocal arts practicum (Chinese and western)
2007-2013:
Elgin OPERA, Elgin, IL (USA) professional opera company [link]
- Singer, chorus master, consultant, and community liason
2006-2009:
1993-1996:
Dominican University, River Forest, IL (USA) liberal arts university [link]
- Part time Adjunct Faculty, Department of Communications
- Full time Music Faculty/Director of Music
1996-1998:
1991-1994:
1983-1989:
Lyric Opera of Chicago, professional opera company, Chicago, IL (USA) [link]
- Director of Education, oversaw community and school outreach, staff and 170 volunteers
Wright City College, community college, Chicago, IL (USA) [link]
- Part time Adjunct Faculty, Adult Education, classes in singing and music theory
Professional Singer, Perugia and Rome (Italy)
- Independent contractor, soprano, specializing in 20th-century music, Italian premieres
Languages
Professional Memberships
Centro di studi Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, Italy) since 1993, Sustaining Member
Speaker at international conferences: 1993, 1996, 2000, 2011, 2019
International Musicological Society (Switzerland) since 1986, Member
Speaker international conferences: 1992 (Spain), 2002 (Belgium), 2012 (Rome), 2017 (Tokyo), 2022 (Athens)
American Musicological Society (USA) since 1992, Member
Royal Musicological Association (United Kingdom) since 2015, Member
Speaker at international conferences: 2015 (Singapore), 2017 (Liverpool, UK)
National Association of Teachers of Singing (USA) since 1992, Member of new Hong Kong chapter