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DR.
LORI MCCANN
Voice
Montclair
State University; Steinhardt School, New York University;
Teachers College, Columbia University
Soprano
Dr. Lori McCann holds the following degrees:
- B.M.,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
- M.A.,
San Diego State University
- D.M.A.
and Artist Diploma, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music
Dr.
McCann has performed extensively in the United States and abroad
appearing in opera, oratorio, and recitals, and
has been regularly featured with
the Berliner Kammeroper and the Neue Opernbühne, both of Berlin,
Germany.
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In
the U.S., she has appeared in leading roles with the Virginia
Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Opera Company of Brooklyn, Whitewater
Opera, Sorg opera, Shreveport Opera,
and Pacific Chamber Opera.
Roles performed in the U.S. and abroad have included the Governess (Turn of the
Screw), Fulvia (Ezio, Händel), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Countess (Le
nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Cosí fan tutte), Mimi (La Bohème),
The Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), Giulia (La scala di seta, Rossini), Iphigénie
(Iphigénie en Tauride, Gluck), Mary Warren (The Crucible, Ward), Jessie
(Mahagonny-Songspiel, Weill), Second Lady (The Magic Flute), Amor (Orfeo ed Eurydice,
Gluck), and others.
She has been the recipient of many awards including National Finalist in the
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, first place in Opera Columbus
Competition and the Virginia Hawk Young Artist Awards in San Diego, a winner
of the Friedrich Shorr Memorial Performance Prize in Voice, a semi-finalist in
the Belvedere International Singing competition in Vienna, third place in the
Birmingham Opera Theater Competition, and fourth place in the AIMS Meistersinger
Competition.
Dr. McCann is Assistant Professor of Voice at the John J. Cali School of Music
of Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ. Previously, she taught on the
voice faculties of the Steinhardt School-Vocal Performance Program at New York
University, and Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City.
Other academic positions have included Director of Vocal Studies at Southern
Illinois University in Edwardsville, Chair of the Voice Department at the College
of Mt. St. Joseph in Cincinnati, and Adjunct Vocal Instructor at the University
of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department.
She has maintained a private voice studio since 1986 in metropolitan areas including
San Diego, Cincinnati, Berlin and Muenster, Germany, and currently in New York
City. In the summers, in addition to teaching at th New York Summer Music Festival,
she also teaches at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.
Dr. McCann has served as adjudicator for singing competitions both in the U.S.
and abroad including the J.S. Bach International Competition in Leipzig, Germany,
and the New York Regionals for the National Association of Teachers of Singing
Artist Awards (NATSAA) Competition.
Currently she serves on the Board of Directors for both the New York City Chapter
of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS-NYC), for which she
is currently Vice President, and the New York Singing Teacher’s Association
(NYSTA).
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