Lisa Foerster, DMA 6300 Ervin Road, Apt 67 Athens, OH (503)

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1 Lisa Foerster, DMA 6300 Ervin Road, Apt 67 Athens, OH (503) Summary My extensive experience as a professional vocal soloist includes over twenty years of art song, opera and oratorio performances in Europe and the United States. I have eight years of university level teaching experience, enabling students to progress as singers and artists. I have experience in course development, and have taught vocal pedagogy, diction, opera/music theater workshop and music appreciation. I am fluent in spoken and written German. Education University of North Carolina at Greensboro: School of Music, Theater and Dance (Greensboro, North Carolina) DMA in Vocal Performance (Coloratura Soprano), May 2012 Hayes Fellow (University- wide Fellowship) Graduate Teaching Assistant, Voice, Cognate: Vocal Pedagogy Dissertation: Expressive Use of Form, Melody and Harmony in Fanny Hensel s Settings of Lyric Poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A Study of Selected Lieder. (2012) Cleveland Institute of Music (Cleveland, Ohio) Artist Diploma in Vocal Performance, May 1987 Stelios and Sofia Vassos Prize in French Art Song, 1987 MM in Vocal Performance, May 1985, Valedictorian Stelios and Sofia Vassos Prize in French Art Song, 1985 Boris Goldofsky Prize in Opera, 1985 Max Berman Prize in Voice, 1985 St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota) Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance, May 1983, Magna cum laude, Departmental Distinction Voice Study with: Dr. Nancy Walker, UNCG George Vassos, CIM Beverley Rinaldi, CIM Margaret Eaves- Smith, St. Olaf College Rita Loving, Munich, Germany Carole Stewart, Portland, Oregon Participant in master classes of: Elly Ameling, Gerard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin, Mikael Eliasen, Tom Krause, Richard Miller, Carol Webber, Richard Woitach, Penelope Jensen 1/6

2 Teaching Experience Assistant Professor of Voice and Director of Lyric Theater, Ohio University (Fall present) Applied Voice Opera Studio class Director, opera productions Instructor of Voice, High Point University ( ) Applied Voice (12-15 students per semester) Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina Greensboro ( ) Applied Voice, teacher of record (10 students per semester, majors and secondary) Class Voice, teacher of record (1 section, 10 students per semester) Text: Adventures in Singing, 4 ed., Ware Italian Diction, undergraduate, teacher of record (16 students, fall semester) Text: Italian Lyric Diction Workbook, Montgomery English Diction, undergraduate, teacher of record (15 students, spring semester) Text: English Lyric Diction Workbook, rev. 3 rd ed., Montgomery German Diction, undergraduate, teacher of record (10 students, Spring 2011) Text: German Diction, Odom Instructor of Voice, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC ( ) Applied Voice, Voice majors per semester Vocal Pedagogy, 1 semester each year (approximately 6 students each year) Text: Basics of Vocal Pedagogy, Ware Lyric Theater Workshop, 1 semester each year (scenes and complete operas) Text: Acting for Singers, Ostwald Works directed: (complete) Menotti, The Telephone Haydn, La Canterina Scenes directed from: West Side Story, Pirates of Penzance, L elisir d amore Vocal Diction (comprehensive course covering IPA, English, German, French and Italian), 1 semester each year (approximately 6 students each year) Texts: Wall, Diction For Singers/ International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers Music Appreciation (1 or 2 sections each semester, 25 students each section) Text: Listening to Music, Zorn Service: Served on Lyceum Committee , planned and facilitated professional performing groups visits to campus Successfully developed and taught new course: Lyric Theater Workshop 2/6

3 Voice Teacher and Conductor, Brightest Star Summer Musical Theatre Program, production of The Music Man, Jr., July Choir Director, The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Asheboro, NC (2012- present) Private Voice Teacher, UNCG Summer Music Camp Faculty (July, 2012 present) Private Voice Teacher, Brightest Star School of Performing Arts, Greensboro: Faculty (2011- present) Private Voice Teacher, Tigard, Oregon ( ) Co- developed and taught Sing: A Vocal Workshop for the Young Singer (for high school students) Master Class Clinician: Master Class at Gordon College, Barnesville, Georgia, 2006 Art Song and Opera Performance, Concordia University, St Paul, Minnesota, 2003 German Diction and Interpretation, Studio of Carole Stewart, Tigard, Oregon, 2003 Private Voice Teacher, Nuremberg, Germany ( ) Directed Children s Choirs at the Lutheran Parish of St. Johannis, Nuremberg, Germany. Research and Creative Activities Recital given at Ohio University: Created by her, January 22, 2015 Invited paper presentation entitled: Gestalt und Gehalt: Expressive Use of Form, Melody and Harmony in Fanny Hensel's Settings of Lyric Poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at the German Studies Association 36th annual meeting, October 2012, in Milwaukee, WI. Lecture/Recital presentation entitled Making the Modern Art Song Recital Appealing to a General Audience at the super regional conference of the College Music Society (CMS) April 2008, Gettysburg, PA. Recitals given at Claflin University: American Moments: An Evening of American Song, October 20, 2006 Like Austrian Crystal (All Mozart), March 17, 2006 Solo Faculty Recital, April 25, 2005 Performance Experience Die Fledermaus: Adele, February 2011, UNCG Opera Theater Production The Impresario: Madame Heartmelt, November 2009, UNCG Opera Theater Production Freelance Soloist in Nuremberg, Germany, : Handel s Messiah, 2001 French Art Song Recital, 1999 Coloratura- Soubrette, Theater Nordhausen, Thüringen, Germany, : Full- time fest engagement Roles including Königin der Nacht, Frasquita, Olympia (see Repertoire list for complete roles). 3/6

4 Lyric Opera Cleveland, : Main stage roles sung: Abduction from the Seraglio (Blondchen), Daughter of the Regiment (Marie), The Magic Flute (Papagena), Pirates of Penzance (Mabel) and OVERTURE school tours Cleveland Art Song Festival Selected as a participant from a pool of national applicants, 1988 and 1985 Professional Affiliations National Association of Teachers of Singing, since 2004 College Music Society, since 2004 German Studies Association, since 2012 Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society, since /6

5 UNCG Opera Theater Die Fledermaus The Impresario Lisa Foerster Selected Repertoire OPERA Adele Madame Heartmelt Theater Nordhausen Die Zauberflöte Carmen Hoffmanns Erzählungen La Bohème Hänsel und Gretel Lustige Weiber von Windsor Lyric Opera Cleveland Die Entführung aus dem Serail La Fille du Regiment Die Zauberflöte Twin Cities Opera Guild Hänsel und Gretel Cleveland Institute of Music L elisir d Amore La Canterina (Haydn) OPERETTA/MUSICALS Blaubart (Offenbach) Pirates of Penzance The Desert Song Carousel Patience Ritter Eisenfrass (Offenbach) Königin der Nacht Frasquita Olympia Musette Sand- u. Taumännchen Anna Blondchen Marie Papagena Gretel Adina Gasparina Fleurette Mabel Margot Carrie Pipperidge Ella Schwefelblüte CONCERT REPERTOIRE 5/6

6 Bach B minor Mass Cantatas: 146,147,202 Various secular cantatas Handel Messiah Mendelssohn Elijah Mozart Exsultate Jubilate Poulenc Gloria Saint- Saens Christmas Oratorio Strauss, J. Frühlingsstimmen- Walzer Villa- Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras Nr. 5 6/6