Welcome to the voice area of the University of Alabama School of Music.
For prospective students, we have prepared pages about our offerings. Information about our undergraduate and graduate programs are available. We have a variety of ensembles available for singers, including a flourishing opera program.
Current students can keep up with voice area events, as well as obtain course information, syllabi, and required forms on our undergraduate programs and graduate programs pages.
Our faculty is made up of dedicated and experienced professionals who are committed to each singer’s individual development. In recent years, the School of Music has had numerous nationally and internationally acclaimed artists visit our campus to give concerts and master classes. Some of our renowned guests have included Marilyn Horne, Benita Valente, Tatiana Troyanos, Samuel Ramey, William Warfield, Jerome Hines, Warren Jones, and Marvis Martin.
Our School of Music, housed in the splendid Frank Moody Music Building, is a division of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Alabama, the state’s capstone institution of higher education. For more information, explore this site or feel free to contact Dr. Susan Fleming, area coordinator and professor of voice, at sfleming@music.ua.edu.The voice faculty of the University of Alabama School of Music are a dedicated group of professionals who, between them, have a wealth of knowledge and experience. Click on the links below to find out specific information about each of us.
For a listing of current events and happenings in the voice area, please read our Voice News and Events.
on January 21 and 22, 2012, the UA School of Music and the Voice Department will host renowned voice pedagogue Dr. Donald Gray Miller and his Voce Vista-Pro Workshop. See the full details of the workshop in the Voice News and Events and also see Dr. Miller’s website at http://www.vocevista.com for his complete biography and more information on Voce Vista.
The University of Alabama will host Classical Singer magazine’s 2012 High School and University competitions on February 11, 2012. More information coming soon. Entrants will compete to be advanced to the national finals to be held at the Classical Singer National Convention and College Expo, May 2012.
2012 Audition Dates:
Saturday, November 12, 2011 (Graduate audition date ONLY)
Saturday, January 14
Saturday, January 28 (Honor Choir participants ONLY)
Monday, February 20
Saturday, March 3 (last audition date for undergraduate scholarship consideration)
Voice Faculty:
- Stephen Cary, tenor, Professor, Voice and Song Literature
- Ray Chenez, countertenor, Instructor of Voice
- Jennifer Cowgill, soprano, Assistant Professor, Voice and Vocal Pedagogy
- Susan Fleming, mezzo-soprano, Professor, Voice Area Coordinator, Voice and Lyric Diction
- Paul Houghtaling, bass-baritone, Assistant Professor, Director of Opera Theatre and Voice
Alumni Careers
The Voice Area at the University of Alabama School of Music has an enviable record of preparing students for careers as performers and educators. Below is a partial list of institutions, summer festivals and arts organizations that have employed our current and former students.
- Alabama OperaWorks
- Atlanta Opera
- Baltimore Opera
- Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre
- Center City Opera Theatre, Philadelphia
- Colorado Arts Symposium
- Glimmerglass Opera
- Gulf Coast Opera Theatre, Mississippi
- Harrower Summer Opera Workshop
- Opera Birmingham
- Opera North
- Opera in the Ozarks
- Baldwin-Wallace College
- Birmingham-Southern College
- Clark-Atlanta University
- Clayton State University
- Mississippi University for Women
- University of Kentucky
Alumni Advanced Studies
Many of our former students have been accepted into prestigious graduate schools. Below is a sample list of those schools.
- Cleveland Institute of Music
- Florida State University
- Juilliard School of Music
- Louisiana State University
- Manhattan School of Music
- New England Conservatory
- Peabody Conservatory
- San Francisco Conservatory
- University of Maryland
- University of Memphis
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Texas-Austin