The Master of Music in Vocal Coaching at ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app City University prepares collaborative pianists and musician-coaches for successful careers in opera, musical theater, and higher education through intensive training in coaching, collaboration, and performance. Working closely with voice faculty, conductors, directors, and singers, students develop advanced skills in repertoire preparation, diction, sight-reading, score study, rehearsal techniques, and stylistic interpretation. Through individualized mentorship and extensive practical experience, graduates emerge as versatile and highly skilled collaborative artists equipped for the demands of today's professional music industry.
As part of the Wanda L. Bass School of Music, vocal coaching students benefit from a uniquely rich performance environment that combines exceptional training in both opera and music theater. Students regularly collaborate with singers and production teams through the ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app Opera & Music Theater Company (the world's oldest campus troupe dedicated to both opera and music theater) and gain hands-on experience supporting rehearsals, coachings, lessons, and performances. Surrounded by a vibrant artistic community and hundreds of annual performance opportunities, graduates leave ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app prepared to excel as vocal coaches, collaborative pianists, music directors, and educators in a wide range of professional and academic settings.
ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app's ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app Opera and Music Theater Company is the world's oldest campus troupe dedicated to both opera and music theater and has won multiple awards, most recently at the 2017 National Opera Association Production Competition. Dr. David Herendeen, director of opera and music theater since 1997, won awards for three different productions in a single season — the first time one director has done so.
On April 4, 1930, ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app City University presented its first musical production: Gilbert and Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore." As ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app's talent pool and audiences grew over the next two decades, the university established the ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app Opera and Music Theater Company. In 1951, it mounted the first of what has become 74 consecutive seasons of fully staged productions.
After hundreds of performances of 170 different operas and musicals, we look back in gratitude at the half-million people who have attended shows on campus or on one of our international tours. We realize that the best way to build on the successes of the past is to confidently embrace the future. Our audiences enjoy the nation's most dynamic young performers, innovative stagings, and a repertoire that combines the comfort of the familiar with the thrill of the unexplored.
– Audition: Candidates typically perform an on-campus vocal coaching audition. The audition will take place with vocalists provided by the Bass School of Music. The audition will include the following elements: two contrasting art songs, an aria from the standard operatic repertoire, a selection from the musical theater repertoire, sight reading. Please consult the recommended materials for vocal coaching auditions.
– Interview: MM Vocal Coaching applicants will interview with the vocal coaching faculty by appointment.
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