RICHARD MILLER
• Leading tenor of Zürich Opera and American Opera Houses,
including San Francisco Opera
• National Oratorio performer/Recitalist
• Soloist with major conductors, including Boulez and Szell
• Master Classes and voice research: Austria, Australia,
Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France,
Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and 38 US States
• 28 years Professor at the Mozarteum (Austria)
• Chevalier/Officier, L'ordre des arts et des lettres (French,
Ministry of Culture, 1991)
• Teacher of the Year Award, New York Singing Teachers, 2003
• Member Collegium Medicorum Theatri
• Otolaryngology Adjunct Staff, Cleveland Clinic
• Voice Foundation Research Awareness Award
• Renowned Author:
- International Schools of Singing (1997)
- The Structure of Singing (1986)
- La Structure du Chant (1990)
- Training Tenor Voices (1993) Korean '94
- On the Art of Singing (1996)
- Singing Schumann: An Interpretive Guide for Performers (1999)
- Solutions for Singers (2004) Korean ‘04
- Training Soprano Voices (2000) Korean '05
- Securing Baritone, Bass-Baritone and Bass Voices (2007)
- Contributed more than 100 articles on voice pedagogy, research, and performance artistry to professional journals, including:
- Journal of Voice
- Folia Phoniatrica
- Choral Journal
- American Music Teacher
- Vocal Arts Medicine
- Journal of Research in Singing and Applied Vocal Pedagogy
- Journal of Singing
• Respected Editor: International Music Co., The NATS Journal,
Journal of Singing (1980-87)
• BM, MM - University of Michigan
• Doctor of Humane Letters (Gustavus Adolphus)
• Fulbright Scholar, Rome
• Diploma di Canto (Academy, S1. Cecilia)
• American Academy of Teachers of Singing
• International Adjudicator
• Founder and Director Emeritus: Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts
Center
• 42 Years as Distinguished Wheeler Professor of Performance
• His students successfully engaged worldwide, including:
The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, San Francisco, La Scala, Paris
Bastille, Rome, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg, Covent Garden, English
National, Glyndebourne, Cologne, Houston, Tokyo, among others
- Former students serve on faculties of major schools of music.
- He continues as an active researcher and author in voice technique and performance - and remains in demand as a master teacher.
Lorraine Manz, mezzo-soprano, is Associate Professor of Singing at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Director of the Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center. In 2006 she served as a Master Teacher for the National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program.
She has been featured as soloist in orchestral and oratorio throughout the United States. She has performed as soloist with conductors including Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, Bridget-Michaele Reischl, Marin Alsop, Garreth Morrell, Steven Smith with the Cleveland Orchestra, Blossom Music Festival, New Hampshire Music Festival, Round Top Festival, Bach Festival Society, Shreveport Summer Music Festival, Jefferson Performing Arts Society (New Orleans), the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Oberlin Orchestra. She received critical praise for performance with Lyric Opera Cleveland in "Little Women" in which composer Mark Adamo was stage director.
The mezzo-soprano has been heard on artist series in recital and contemporary chamber music ensembles including performances at the Lincoln Center, Contemporary Directions of the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), and the New Music Festival (California). She toured Japan the West Coast performing a variety of chamber music works.
Lorraine Manz has maintained an active teaching career and prior to joining the faculty of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, taught at the University of California, and St. Olaf College.
Tom I. Abelson, MD, FACS is an Otolaryngologist in the Head and Neck Institute of Cleveland Clinic Foundation and is Assistant Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He co-directs the Ambulatory Surgery Center at the Cleveland Clinic Beachwood Family Health and Surgery Center. He has been actively involved in the care of professional voice users for over 20 years and serves as one of the company physicians for Cleveland's Playhouse Square and Cleveland Opera. He has lectured for many years to voice students associated with the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the Chautauqua Institution, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. With other members of Cleveland Clinic staff he has published articles relating to laryngopharyngeal reflux. Dr Abelson is also active in the Cleveland Community. He is a past president of Fairmount Temple and of the Northeastern Ohio Otolaryngology Society. He is presently co-chair of the Cleveland Board of Ishmael and Isaac, a national organization, founded in Cleveland, made up of Palestinian and Jewish Americans.
Douglas M. Hicks, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Director, The Voice Center and Head, Speech-Language Pathology Section, at the The Cleveland Clinic since 1989. Dr. Hicks received his undergraduate degree from The College of Wooster, his Master's degree from Northwestern University and his doctorate from Vanderbilt University. Prior to joining the Clinic, he held tenure and professorial rank at the University of Florida for nine years. He has been actively involved in the clinical management of voice patients for over 30 years and his 325+ invited presentations/publications are primarily related to the human voice and its disorders. Care of the professional voice is an area of special
interest that entails active involvement with the performing arts community. Dr. Hicks is one of the company doctors for Cleveland's Playhouse Square, providing clincal care to performers, including those with Opera Cleveland, touring Broadway shows, and pop/rock bands. He actively works with performance faculty and students at local colleges and universities, such as Oberlin College's Conservatory of Music, where he holds an Affiliate Scholar appointment. Dr. Hicks received the honor of Fellow from his national association, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. He also holds adjunct faculty appointments at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University.
Claudio F. Milstein Ph.D. CCC-SLP is a speech scientist with clinical interests in laryngology and voice disorders. Born in Buenos Aires, he completed his studies at the Medical School of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He taught at this same University, and joined the faculty of the National Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, teaching voice courses for actors and singers, and developing an expertise in the care of the professional voice.
In the U.S. he obtained his PhD in Speech Sciences from the University of Arizona, and did an internship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary -Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He has been actively involved in the clinical management of voice patients for over 20 years, and is frequently invited as a lecturer at national and international meetings. Dr. Milstein has authored numerous publications primarily related to the human voice and its disorders. He has been a Staff Member of the Head and Neck Institute at the Cleveland Clinic since 2001, and holds an Affiliate Scholar appointment at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
His primary interests involve diagnosis and treatment of adults and children with laryngeal-vocal fold-voice pathology, aero-digestive tract disorders, treatment of early glottic carcinoma, functional voice disorders and vocal cord dysfunction.
Donald Miller, who designed and developed the software program VoceVista (Visual Feedback for Instruction in Singing), began his career as an opera singer and voice teacher. Having completed his formal studies at the Yale University School of Music in his native USA, he continued with singing lessons in Milan and Berlin, making stage appearances in both cities. After a further year's engagement with the Wiener Kammeroper, he joined the faculty of the Syracuse University School of Music, where he taught for over two decades, rising to the rank of professor. During this time he was very active as a bass-baritone, singing over 25 leading roles from the standard repertory, along with many roles in contemporary works, including the American premieres of Ernst Krenek's Life of Orestes and Philip Glass's Satyagraha.
His interest in the relevance of voice science to the singing voice grew in the late 70's, and in 1984 he spent a semester in Groningen, the Netherlands, on a project with Harm K. Schutte and the late Prof. Janwillem van den Berg. In 1987 he moved permanently to Groningen to devote himself to research on the acoustics and physiology of the singing voice as an associate of the Groningen Voice Research Lab. This has resulted in a number of scientific publications together with Prof. Schutte, as well as a doctoral monograph, Registers in Singing, published in 2000. His book on resonance in the singing voice is expected in June.
An important result of his work in Groningen has been the program VoceVista (visible voice -- see www.vocevista.com and www.eggsforsingers.eu). VoceVista was introduced in 1996, when personal computers became powerful enough to perform real-time spectrum analysis. Since then it has been regularly updated and further perfected and is now in use in voice labs and facilities for training singers, particularly in the U.S., Germany, and the Netherlands.
For 2007-2008, Thomas Bandy is Visiting Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at the Oberlin Conservatory. Beginning next year, Thomas will be an Assistant Professor of Opera and Vocal Coaching and the University of Oklahoma. Bandy finished his doctoral studies in collaborative piano in 2007 at the University of Michigan with Martin Katz, with whom he also studied during work on his Master's degree. He has played in the voice studios of Shirley Verrett and George Shirley. Thomas is an active chamber musician and vocal coach in many languages as well, specializing in Russian diction and vocal literature, and has worked with many singers at Oberlin and Michigan in art song and opera. Thomas graduated summa cum laude from Furman University, in South Carolina, and is married to Rebecca Bandy; they have two children.
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