Suzanne Scherr

USA: +1 (559) 558-6287

suzanne.scherrsteger@fresno.edu OR suzanne.scherr.steger@gmail.com 

Professional singer/actress/vocal and diction coach and experienced university professor. Specialist in Puccini opera studies, internationally recognized for editorial revisions, tempo in bel canto opera. Currently, lead voice faculty of Fresno Pacific University (California USA). Since 2023, also music instructor at Hoover High School (Fresno, CA).

2013-2022: professor in music department at Zhengzhou University, SIAS International College, in Xinzheng (Henan Province), P.R. China, teaching in the Chinese language. Served as as Director - Western Music Research Center (西方音乐研究中心主任), championing the professional development of college-level music educators of western music in China.

Previous positions as music faculty (division chair) at Dominican University (Illinois USA) and as Director of Education at Lyric Opera of Chicago (Illinois USA).

Proficient in 4 European languages, fluent in Italian, native speaker of American English, can teach/converse about music in Mandarin Chinese (普通话).