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Scharmal Schrock

• Senior Lecturer, Jacobs School of Music

Education:

• M.M. , Indiana University, 1967
• B.S. , College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 1963

Background:

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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.

Schrock completed degrees at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, where she was a student of Robert Powell and at Indiana University, where she studied with the late Margaret Harshaw. Additionally, she studied with Kammersingerin Hilda Zadek in Vienna and Daniel Ferro in New York City. As a Fulbright Scholar, she continued her studies in Opera and Art Song in Germany and Austria.

Schrock has appeared as a recitalist throughout the United States and Europe. She has performed as a soloist with Atlanta, Amarillo, Baton Rouge, Dallas, Ft. Worth, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Shreveport symphonies.

She was recently a member of the faculty at the Summer Music Theatre Institute at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is an active member and adjudicator of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Music Teachers National Association. She is also a member of the National Opera Association and was the director of SELU's Opera-Music Theatre Program from 1981 to 2002.