Alan Bennett has an active performing career, with appearances throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe in oratorio, recital, and opera.   Biography >>

Costanza Cuccaro had an international career performing lyric-coloratura roles at major opera houses around the world, including The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Colon, Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Munich, and Vienna State Opera. Her recording and video credits include several operas and oratorios.   Biography >>

Robert Harrison performed as a freelance chorister in New York City under Leonard Bernstein, Shaw, Stokowski, Brubeck, Gregg Smith, and Eve Queler.   Biography >>

Mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart has won numerous song competitions, including the Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition, Concert Artists Guild, and NATS Artist Awards; she also received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.   Biography >>

Mezzo-soprano, Professor Havranek has performed with the Cleveland Opera, New Orleans Opera Association, the Kennedy Center, Berkshire Festival, Ohio Light Opera, Nashville Opera, Pittsburgh Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Portland Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, New Orleans Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony, and the National Symphony of Mexico.   Biography >>

Soprano Alice Hopper has performed such roles as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Tytania in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, Puccini's Tosca and Madame Butterfly, and Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes.   Biography >>

Brian Horne teaches studio voice, diction, and pedagogy. He holds degrees from Hiram College (Ohio) and Indiana University, and is a former faculty member of Shorter College (Georgia) and the University of Missouri. He continues to perform and presents master classes across the country.   Biography >>

Professor Kiesgen is a member of the Chicago Singing Teachers Guild and is listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. He has performed in operas and concerts in North America, Europe, Israel and China, and has taught master classes and guest lectures throughout the United States, Italy, and China. Mr. Kiesgen teaches studio voice and graduate classes in vocal pedagogy.   Biography >>

Soprano Teresa Kubiak made her American debut at Carnegie Hall in 1970 and has performed operatic engagements throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle and the Far East.   Biography >>

Two-time Grammy Award-winner Sylvia McNair is equally at home on the stages of Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and in the intimate environs of the Rainbow Room and the Algonquin's legendary Oak Room, performing both classical and cabaret, opera and Broadway musicals. Her more than 70 recordings range from Mozart arias with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-Fields to CDs with Andre Previn of music by Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen.   Biography >>

Tenor Carlos Montané has performed as leading tenor with the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera and in Philadelphia, Houston, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Budapest, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Zagreb, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, and Singapore.   Biography >>

Baritone Timothy Noble has enjoyed an international career performing leading roles at major opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Canadian Opera in Toronto, Opera Montreal, the Glyndebourne Festival, La Fenice in Venice, and the Netherlands Opera.   Biography >>

Baritone Andreas Poulimenos was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for study in Rome, Italy; a recipient of the "Faculty Excellence Award;" and is a former faculty member of Bowling Green State University in Ohio.   Biography >>

Scharmal Schrock comes to the IU Jacobs School of Music from the Southeastern Louisiana University (SELU) Department of Music and Dramatic Arts, where she was professor of voice and coordinator of the vocal area.   Biography >>

Marietta Simpson began her operatic training at Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, New York. She was a member of the Houston Opera Studio for several seasons and has sung roles with Mobile and Minnesota Operas, Opera Delaware, Opera North, August and Columbus Operas, the New York City Opera, Royal Opera House, and Covent Garden.   Biography >>

Patricia Stiles performed over seventy operatic roles including Carmen, Dalila, Eboli, Octavian, Orpheus, Ortrud, Erda, Rosina, Dorabella, and Cherubino with international opera houses including National Theater (Munich), Semperoper (Dresden), Leipzig Opera, Duesseldorf Opera, Washington Opera (Kennedy Center).   Biography >>

Born in San Diego, CA, Carol Vaness launched her professional singing career at the New York City Opera, where she appeared regularly from 1979 to 1983. Since then, she has sung on the world's biggest stages and at premier music festivals, collaborated with today's foremost conductors in operatic and symphonic repertoires, appeared on numerous television broadcasts throughout North America and Europe, and compiled a distinguished catalog of recordings.   Biography >>

Based in Europe for many years, Patricia Wise performed over 40 major operatic roles from the lyric and coloratura repertoire.   Biography >>