Vocal Arts Lessons At The Conservatory

Education

• Master of Music in Music Theatre Vocal Pedagogy | Carthage College
• Bachelor of Arts in Music Theatre with a Dance Minor | Carthage College
• Academic focus on Functional Voice Training, Cross-Training, and the effects of Religious Trauma on Vocalists

Background

• Joined the WCM team in 2021.
• Milwaukee Based Actor, Voice Specialist, Choreographer, Dance and Theatre Instructor.
• Has taught through Kindermusik with Emilie (Kenosha, WI), Character Kids Theatre Program (Frankin, WI), and The Boys and Girls Club (Kenosha, WI).
• International travels include an Educational tour of Seussical in China (Shanghai, Xi’an, Beijing); Choreographer for The Lion King Jr. at Kwan Kwan Theatre School (Jinan, China); Member of the 2019 Carthage Choir, winners of the Spittal International Choral competition, under the direction of Dr. Garcia-Novelli.
• Studied under Dr. Corinne Ness, Jeremy Ryan Mossman, Lorain Schwaber, and Peg Cleveland.
• Believes that teachers are the guides to help bring agency, creativity, and inspiration to their students. Through their curriculum, teachers have an obligation to teach humanistic values as well, such as empathy, honesty, and responsibility.

Chair – Vocal Arts

Education

• Bachelor of Music, Choral Education | Lawrence University
• Master of Music, Voice Performance | University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Background

• WCM faculty member since 2002.
• Soprano soloist with the chamber group Great Lakes Baroque.
• Also served as principal soprano soloist with Ensemble Musical Offering, where she worked with Stanley Ritchie, Marion Verbruggen, Joshua Rifkin, and other Baroque specialists.
• Has appeared as a soloist with Present Music, Bach Chamber Choir, Racine Symphony, and Skylight Opera, where she performed in a cycle of Monteverdi operas directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
• A founding member of the a cappella group Polyhymnia, and director of contemporary music at St. Boniface Episcopal Church in Mequon.
• Taught voice at Alverno College, as well as general music at New World Montessori, 81st Street School, and in the Whitefish Bay Public Schools.

Education

• Master of Music in Opera Performance | Boston Conservatory at Berklee
• Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance | Lawrence University

Background

• Joined the WCM team in 2022.
• Milwaukee-based soprano with experience performing roles within the operatic and musical theatre genres as well as soloist work in oratorio repertoire. Currently performs locally.
• National and international roles performed include Younger Alyce in Glory Denied, Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw, Anna Gomez in The Consul, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Despina in Cosí fan tutte, and Isolier in Le Comte Ory. 
• Oratorio soloist work includes soprano soloist in The Messiah, Schumann’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and Mozart’s Mass in C Major.
• Studied under renowned voice professors and coaches such as Joanne Bozeman, Victor Jannett, Delores Ziegler, Bonnie Koestner, Michael Strauss, Louise Pelletier, and Andrew Altenbach.
• Has been teaching private voice and piano lessons for over 3 years and also teaches k-8 choir and general music.
• Believes that singing is an act that should be free of judgment and produced through healthy technique and mindset, hard work and practice, and a willingness to be vulnerable.

Education

• Bachelor of Music, Vocal Performance | Lawrence University
• Graduate Studies in Vocal Performance | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Background

• Served as a young artist for the Skylight, Glimmerglass Opera and Seattle Opera, where she gave a notable performance as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro.
• A district winner and third place regional award winner at the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions.
• Recently appeared as Jane in Thank you, Next, Alto Soloist in Songs from the Uproar, Historian in Clara and Alto Soloist in The Poe Requiem.
• Performed solos from Schubert’s Mass in G, Vivaldi’s Gloria, John Rutter’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Pauken Messe, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
• Sang the first full US performance of Carl Jenkin’s Mass for the Armed Man at St. John’s Cathedral in Milwaukee.
• Member of the voice faculties of Carthage College and Parkside University, where she teaches both classical and music theater students of all ages and abilities.

Education

• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Music and Theatre | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Master of Music, Opera | University of Wisconsin-Madison

Background

• WCM faculty member since 1994.
• Studied with Karlos Moser, Kammersanger Jean Cox, Anna Reynolds, Mimmi Fulmer, Lenore Lynde Horsman and Richard Winter.
• One of only eleven people chosen nationwide to participate in “Masterclasses in the Art of Singing Wagner.”
• Has sung major operatic and oratorio roles throughout Wisconsin, and has recorded for Wisconsin Public Radio and The Symposium for Church Composers.
• Directing credits include extensive work with children’s theatre and many opera company productions.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, Vocal Music – Korea National University of Arts
• Master of Music. Vocal Performance – University of Wisconsin – Madison
• Professional Certificate in Music, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
• Diploma in Creative and Performing Musical Arts, University of the Philippines

Background

• Shaddai joined the Vocal Arts Faculty in July 2019.
• Has appeared in operatic roles such as Mimi in La Bohème at Wisconsin Union Theater, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte in Hong Kong, Rosina in Il Barbiere diSiviglia, and Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites.
• In concerts, she sang as Soprano soloist for Handel’s Messiah, and Vivaldi’s Gloria in Korea and the Philippines.
• With emphasis on classical voice, Shaddai also teaches voice in different genres such as CCM, Broadway musical, and jazz.

Background

• During the 2018-2019 season, Mr. Taylor will make his role debut in the title role in Roméo et Juliette with the Hawaii Opera Theatre.
• He returns to Theater St. Gallen, Switzerland for a role debut as Pollione in Norma, and joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta.
• Concert engagements include Cassio in Otello with Austin Lyric Opera, and Don José in Carmen with the Plano Symphony Orchestra.
• Notable engagements of recent seasons include Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly for his house debut with Oper Leipzig, Macduff in Macbeth with New Orleans Opera, a return to Theater und Konzert, St. Gallen for Cavaradossi in Tosca and Walter in Catalani’s Loreley, and a role debut as Calaf in Turandot with Virginia Opera.
• Additional appearances include performances with Theater Würzburg, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Theater Mönchengladbach, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Baltimore Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, Virginia Opera, and Manitoba Opera, among others.