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Phyllis Hoffman
phoffman@bu.edu
Chair of Applied and Performance Studies; Professor of Music, Voice
Director of the Young Artists Vocal Program and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. BMus, MMus, Boston University College of Fine Arts. Advanced studies: vocal fellow, Tanglewood Music Center, 1968, 1969; Aspen Music Festival, 1970; Goldovsky Opera Institute, 1973. Private study with William Vennard, Oren Brown, and Benita Valente. Solo appearances with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra; Robert Shaw at the Meadowbrook Music Festival; Paul Vermel and the Portland Symphony Orchestra; John Oliver and the MIT Choral Society; John Harbison and the Cantata Singers and Ensemble; Craig Smith and Emmanuel Music. US premiere of Mahler’s Das Klagende Lied with Michel Sasson and the Newton Symphony Orchestra. Numerous oratorio solo engagements include appearances with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Chorus Pro Musica, Masterworks Chorale, Springfield Symphony, and Worcester Festival. Performances and premieres of twentieth-century works at Boston University, Alice Tully Hall, and Sanders Theatre. Founding member and artistic advisor of Jubal’s Lyre, a vocal and instrumental ensemble. Board of Directors, Alea III, 1986–90; Board of Directors, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Boston Chapter, 1995–present. Westbrook College faculty, 1964–73. Teaching associate in music, 1976–87. Assistant professor, 1987. Associate professor, 1994. Chairman, voice department, 1992–96. Director of the School of Music 1997–2001. Recipient of the CFA Distinguished Faculty Award in 2004.
Recognized for her expertise in vocal pedagogy, Professor Hoffman has given master classes for the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg, Cornell University, and the New England Conservatory of Music among others. She has served as an adjudicator for numerous competitions and as a consultant for performing arts curricula. Her students have won awards and competitions, gone on to prestigious programs and summer festivals. They are performing professionally in major and regional opera houses and concert halls including the Metropolitan and New York City Opera Companies.
The alumni of the Young Artists Vocal Program are numerously enrolled in the most competitive music schools including the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, Cincinnati College Conservatory, Shepherd School of Music and the School of Music at Boston University College of Fine Arts. They include the 2003 and 2006 national winners of the Metropolitan National Council Auditions, the Alice Tully Young Artists Recital Series, and a finalist in the Operagalia Competition. They are or have been on the rosters of prestigious venues such as the Tanglewood Music Center, Glimmerglass, Merola, Central City Opera, Ravinia Festival, the Chatauqua Young Artists Program, Chicago Lyric Opera Young Artists, and the Metropolitan and New York City Opera Companies
Penelope Bitzas peb@bu.edu
Associate Professor of Music, Voice
BM, magna cum laude, Ithaca College; MM, New England Conservatory of Music. In 2007, mezzo-soprano Penelope Bitzas received the prestigious Metcalf Award, which is Boston University’s highest honor for excellence in teaching. She has performed in a wide variety of musical genres, including opera, contemporary music, solo recital, orchestral performances, and Greek music. She has appeared as a soloist under such notable conductors as Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, Luciano Berio, and Richard Westenburg. She has concertized in the United States, Germany, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, and Venezuela. As a frequent performer of new music and Greek music, she has been heard at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Jordan Hall, and other venues in concerts and world premieres of this repertoire. In the New England area, Ms. Bitzas has been a soloist with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra; ALEA III; Back Bay Chorale; Just in Time Players; the MIT Chorale and Orchestra; First Monday Concerts; and Time’s Arrow.
Ms. Bitzas was National Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and a member of the Minnesota Opera Studio, the New Music Ensemble at the Banff Centre, and the Blossom Music Festival. She was also a recipient of two fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Center. Her students have been winners and finalists of numerous competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Joy in Singing, Opera Index, the George London Competition, the Jensen Foundation, the Reyfuss Competition, the Poulenc Competition, the Gerdna Lissner Foundation, Opera Index, the MacAllister Awards, the Loren Zachary Competition, and the NATS and NATSSA Competitions. Many of her students have performed roles with the New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Des Moines Opera, Nashville Opera, Virginia Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Sarasota Opera, Opera Colorado, Boston Lyric Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Lake George Opera, and Opera Boston. There have been feature articles about her students in the Boston Globe and in “Soundbites” in Opera News. Her students have also participated in opera apprenticeships including Santa Fe, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Wolf Trap, Opera North Brevard Music Festival, Cincinnati Opera, Des Moines, Seattle Opera Young Artist Program, Lake George, Utah Opera Festival, Virginia Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Merola, and Anchorage Opera.
Ms. Bitzas frequently gives master classes and presentations at the Master Teachers of Singing at Westminster Choir College, and has been on the faculty of the Amalfi Coast Music Festival. Ms. Bitzas received her Bachelor of Music in voice performance and music education (magna cum laude) from Ithaca College and her Masters of Music in voice performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been on faculty at Boston University since 1993 and has previously taught at Gustavus Adolphus College, Wagner College, and Ithaca College.
 James Demler
jimdemler@yahoo.com
Assistant Professor of Music, Voice.
BM, University of New Mexico; MM, University of Arizona; Performer’s Certificate, Eastman School of Music. Baritone James Demler first gained international attention at Houston Grand Opera, where he appeared as Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte and Peter in Hansel and Gretel. He has since performed in more than 25 operas, as well as numerous oratorios and concert works with companies across the United States and Canada, including his Carnegie Hall debut with the Opera Orchestra of New York in Boieldieu’s La Dame Blanche. Mr. Demler has previously served on the faculties of the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, and at Connecticut College and Princeton University. For the past five summers he has been a faculty member of the Berkshire Choral Festival in Sheffield, Massachusetts.
Gary Durham gdurham@bu.edu
Lecturer, Voice
BM, University of Delaware cum laude; MM, Boston University. Additional studies: Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College, New England Conservatory Summer Opera Studio. For the past 10 summers, instructor of voice, opera and lyric diction at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Voice instructor, Emerson College. Former faculty position at the University of Connecticut. Appears regularly with opera companies and orchestras throughout the New England region, including the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston and Opera Providence. Present position 2007.
 Sharon Daniels
Associate Professor Music, Voice
sdaniels@bu.edu PHONE 617-353-5200 BM, Chapman College, and Advanced Studies at the Goldovsky Institute and San Francisco Merola Programs. Martha Baird Rockefeller, National Institute of Music Theater, National Opera Institute and Sullivan grants for studies in movement, acting, languages, and coaching for the opera stage. Jacopo Peri Award for contributions to Opera in New England, 2003. Miss Daniels made her professional AGMA debut as a Flower Maiden in Parsifal with the San Francisco Opera, where she also sang with its subsidiaries Western Opera Theater and Spring Opera. A move to New York brought the title role of La Belle Helene with New York City Opera, a company where she also sang the title roles in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah (opposite Sam Ramey as Blitch) and Lehar’s The Merry Widow, along with Micaela in Carmen, Musetta in La Bohème, Concepcion in L’heure Español, and Rose Maurrant in Street Scene, among others.
Renowned as a singing actress, she starred in the role of Rosabella opposite bass Georgio Tozzi in the Broadway revival and the PBS Great Performances telecast of The Most Happy Fella. She toured with the premiere world tour of Peter Sellars-Alice Goodman-John Adam’s Nixon in China as the cover for Pat Nixon, a role she performed in a “save-rave” performance at the Next Wave Festival in New York. For other American companies (Houston Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Fort Worth, Opera Sacramento, Detroit Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Kansas City Lyric Opera, etc) she sang such roles as the title roles in Manon, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Susannah, The Merry Widow and Hiram Titus’ Rosina (premiere); Adina in L’elisir d’amore, Birdie in Regina, Yum Yum in The Mikado, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Josephine in HMS Pinafore, Curly’s Wife in Of Mice and Men, Marie in The Daughter of the Regiment, Pauline L’Allemande in Susa’s Black River, Irena in Wargo’s Seduction of a Lady (Premiere workshop with the composer), Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, and Adele in Die Fledermaus. Venues included The Kennedy Center, State Theater at Lincoln Center, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, and The Majestic Theater on Broadway, to name a few.
She performed as recitalist and concert and pops soloist with such orchestras as San Francisco Symphony, Oakland Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Waterloo Symphony, the Kansas City Philharmonic, and the Banff Festival Orchestra.
At Boston University, Miss Daniels developed the new curriculum for the Opera Institute (started by Phyllis Curtin), initiated the Fall Fringe Festival, and has directed mainstage productions of Street Scene, A Month in the Country, The Marriage of Figaro, The Mother of Us All, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Albert Herring, La clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo, Die Fledermaus, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Pasquale, La finta giardiniera, Il barbieri di Siviglia, La Boheme, and Lucia di Lammermoor. Professionally she has stage directed The Ballad of Baby Doe for both Kansas City Lyric Opera and Boston Lyric Opera, The Medium for Portland Opera, and Le Nozze di Figaro for Granite State Opera.
Since Miss Daniels joined the Boston University faculty in 1989, her voice studio has produced principal artists in many professional venues locally, nationally and internationally, and also has seen finalists and winners of many major competitions such as the Metropolitan Opera Regional and National Finals, The International Caruso Competition, The Liederkranz Competition, Young Concert Artist’s Guild Competition, The Joy of Singing Competition and The Jenny Lind Competition. She has been a member of NATS, Actors’ Equity, NOA, AGMA, and Opera America, where she currently serves on the National Singer Training Forum. She served as an Affiliate Artist for The John Deere Foundation in Waterloo and Ottumwa, Iowa and for the Kansas City Lyric Opera in Kansas City. She served the National Endowment for the Arts as funding panelist for Opera/Music Theater; composer review panelist for New American Works; and as on-site evaluator of funded projects. Adjudicator, Jose Iturbi Foundation Competition, 2009.
 Lynn Eustis
Director of Graduate Studies, School of Music; Associate Professor of Music, Voice
leustis@bu.edu PHONE 617-358-7127 Lynn Eustis, soprano, is currently Chair of Voice and Associate Director of Graduate Studies in Music at Boston University, where she joined the faculty in fall 2012. From 1999-2012 she served on the voice faculty at the University of North Texas, where she was also Director of Graduate Studies in Music. She holds the Doctor of Music degree in opera from Florida State University, a Master of Music degree in opera from the Curtis Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree In vocal performance from Bucknell University, Phi Beta Kappa. She appears regularly as a soloist with numerous professional organizations such as Chorus Pro Musica (Boston), Tulsa Oratorio Chorus, Dallas Bach Society, and the Choral Society of Durham, NC, in works such as Gloria (Poulenc), Dona nobis pacem (Vaughan Williams), Mozart’s C Minor Mass, Carmina burana (Orff) and Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Barber). She has been heard internationally with the Americke Jaro Festival (Czech Republic), the Compania Lirica Nacional (Costa Rica), and the Guangzhou Symphony (China). Dr. Eustis has sung over thirty operatic roles, most notably the title roles in Lucia di Lammermoor and The Daughter of the Regiment, Zerbinetta, Olympia, Pamina, Susanna, Rosina, and Gilda. Recordings include Carmina burana (Klavier, 2003), featured soloist on Innisfree (GIA Publications, 2007) and Portraits: New Music for Soprano, Baritone and Piano (Capstone, 2007). In March 2010 she made her Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart’s Vesperae de Dominica. With Westminster Williamson Voices she appeared as the title soloist in the U.S. premiere of James Whitbourn’s Annelies: The Anne Frank Oratorio, a work for which she continues to be in demand.
Dr. Eustis is the author of The Singer’s Ego: Finding Balance Between Music and Life, Finding Middle Ground (two volumes of songs for teaching young voices), and The Teacher’s Ego: When Singers Become Voice Teachers, all published by GIA Publications in Chicago. Her students have been heard with the Salzburg Music Festival, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Dallas Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Central City Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Ohio Light Opera, Opera North, Concert Royal (NYC), Amor Artis (NYC), Brooklyn Lyric Opera, New Jersey Opera Theater, the Vancouver Early Music Festival, and the Boston Early Music Festival. During the summer she serves on the faculty at the Up North Vocal Institute in Boyne City, Michigan.
Dr. Eustis is a native of Long Island, New York.
Jerrold Pope
Associate Professor of Music, Voice
jpope@bu.edu PHONE 617-358-4609 BM, New England Conservatory; MM, Yale University; DMA, Rutgers University. Dr. Pope gained critical acclaim appearing as an ECCO Artist with the Cincinnati Opera Company. His credits have gone on to include Théatre du Châtelet in Paris; Glyndebourne and Buxton Opera; London Proms; Schleswig-Holstein Musikfest and Tanglewood Music Festivals; Netherlands Opera Forum in Amsterdam; and Oper Kiel in Germany, as well as performances with the companies of Pittsburgh, Boston, Orlando, Grand Rapids, Hawaii, and Anchorage. He has appeared in concert at the Théatre de la Ville in Paris, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Brooklyn Academy of Music with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and New York’s Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony. Additionally, he has performed with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony, and the Pittsburgh, Charleston, St. Louis, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras as well as with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He has recorded for the Col Legno label. Dr. Pope previously served on the voice faculty at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, and the faculty of the Florida State University’s College of Music, where he received a 2004 Developing Scholar Award, which led to the publication of selected Lieder of Robert Fuchs. He was a 2003 NATS Master Teacher for the Summer Intern Program. He was co-director of the Barga Opera Festival in Barga, Italy and now serves as Guest Teacher at the Atlantic Music Festival. |
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