Former students have held teaching positions at Florida State University, the University of Oklahoma, Clayton State University, Ithaca College, the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, Mississippi State University, Delta State University, Luther College, and Indiana University. A number of her students have participated in Young Artist programs including those at the Santa Fe Opera, EPCASO (the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera), Minnesota Opera, Central City Opera, Sarasota Opera, Brevard, Fort Worth Opera, and Ash Lawn Opera Festival.
arhopper@indiana.edu
(812) 855-8469
Education
M.M., University of Illinois, 1976 / B.M., Murray State University, 1973
Biography
Soprano Alice Hopper is a former faculty member of DePauw University (Indiana) and Wesleyan College in Georgia, where she held the first Distinguished Chair of Voice.
She has performed such roles as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberfl�te and Tytania in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, Puccini's Tosca and Madame Butterfly, and Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes. Her extensive oratorio repertoire ranges from Orf's Carmina Burana and Poulenc's Gloria to Verdi's Requiem.
She has sung with orchestras and regional opera companies in the Eastern and Midwestern United States, Germany, Austria, and Italy.
Brian Horne (Associate Professor )
blhorne@indiana.edu
(812) 855-2380
Education
D.M., Indiana University, 2001 / M.M., Indiana University, 1987
B.A., Hiram College, 1985
Biography
Brian Horne teaches studio voice, diction, and pedagogy. He holds degrees from Hiram College (Ohio) and Indiana University, and is a former faculty member of Shorter College (Georgia) and the University of Missouri. He continues to perform and presents master classes across the country.
Dr. Horne's former students perform throughout the country and have won numerous state, regional, and national competitions, ranging from "The Outstanding Performer" in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to finalists in the MTNA Young Artist, Dallas Opera Guild, Mobile Opera, and Houston Grand Opera competitions and the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Grand Finals. His students and former students have taken part in such summer and professional programs as the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, Central City Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Des Moines Metro Opera, Wolf Trap, Tanglewood, and the Houston Opera Studio.
He serves on the Jacobs School of Music Council and the Bloomington Faculty Council, and as treasurer of the NATS Foundation. He is listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, has recorded with The Cincinnati Pops, and in 2003 was awarded a Commendation for Special Achievement in musical direction by the Kennedy Center
Teresa Kubiak (Professor)
tkubiak@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6006
Education
M.M., Lodz Academy of Music, Poland, 1965
Biography
Soprano Teresa Kubiak made her American debut at Carnegie Hall in 1970 and performed operatic engagements throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle and the Far East.
She sang with the Metropolitan Opera for fourteen years and has performed in London's Royal Opera, the Vienna Staatsoper, Paris, Munich, Rome, Bulgaria, Russia, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Venice, Warsaw, Prague, Korea, China, Kuwait, Jordan, and the Phillippines.
Professor Kubiak has appeared with the world's major orchestras and conductors, including the New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Munich Symphony, Puerto Rico Casals Festival, Ravinia, Chicago Symphony, Krakow, Katowice, and the Lodz, Glyndenborne Festival.
She is the winner of five national and international vocal competitions and teaches master classes throughout Europe, the Middle East, United States, and New Zealand. She has recorded for Decca, EMI, BBC, Argo, Mondo Italy and Polish Muza, and is a member of NATS.
Professor Kubiak is involved in judging national and international competitions and is listed in the International Who's Who of Music and Musicians, Who's Who in American Women, Annals of Metropolitan Opera and Who's Who in Opera.
In 2005, Professor Kubiak was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Music Academy of Lodz, Poland, her alma mater.
Sylvia McNair (Senior Lecturer)
smcnair@indiana.edu
(812) 855-4470
Education
D.M., Westminster College, 1997 / D.M., Indiana University, 1998
M.M., Indiana University, 1983 / B.A., Wheaton College
Biography
Two-time Grammy Award-winner Sylvia McNair is equally at home on the stages of Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and in the intimate environs of the Rainbow Room and the Algonquin's legendary Oak Room, performing both classical and cabaret, opera and Broadway musicals. Her more than 70 recordings range from Mozart arias with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-Fields to CDs with Andre Previn of music by Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen.
McNair was awarded a 1993 Grammy for a recording of Handel's Semele and a 1996 Grammy for The Echoing Air: The Music of Henry Purcell. Her career highlights include performances for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican and for Hillary Clinton, as well as a recital at the U.S. Supreme Court by special invitation from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
McNair has been a regular guest soloist with the major American and European orchestras and opera houses, working with an array of today's most prominent conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin, and Robert Shaw, the musician she credits with giving her the early and important opportunities that started her career.
A native of Mansfield, OH, she has received honorary doctorates from Westminster College (1997) and Indiana University (1998). In 1999, she received the Governor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Entertainment from Ohio Governor Bob Taft.
In 2001, she was named the Jacobs School's executive adviser for outreach and, since, has lent her time and talents to fundraising and attracting outstanding faculty to her alma mater.
Carlos Montane (Professor)
montane@indiana.edu
(812) 855-7068
Education
B.A., Escuela Normal de ca Muguey, Cuba, 1958
Biography
Tenor Carlos Montane studied in Cuba, the United States, and Italy, receiving his B.A. in vocal studies.
He made his professional debut at age 23 singing the role of the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, a role that he later performed at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, and Philadelphia Lyric Opera as well as in Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, and South Africa. He also performed in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Norway, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Great Britain, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Malasia.
Montae has appeared only in leading roles, such as Radames in Aida, Riccado in Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Carlo in Don Carlo, Ernani in Ernani, Don Alvaro in La Forza del Destino, Macduff in Macbeth, Ismaele in Nabucco, Riccardo in Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio (U.S. professional premiere), Gabriele in Simon Boccanegra, Alfredo in La Traviata, Manrico in Il Trovatore, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Roberto in Roberto Devereux, Faust in Faust, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Cavaradossi in Tosca, and Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut.
During a career spanning 48 years as of 2009, he has performed with sopranos including Montserrat Caballe, Martina Arroyo, Teresa Kubiak, Gilda Cruz-Romo, and Patricia Wise. His oratorio performances include Verdi's Requiem, Donizetti's Requiem, Bottesini's Requiem, and Beethioven's Missa Solemnis.
Montan� has presented master classes at AIMS in Graz; Centro Studi Italiani and Scuola Italia in Italy; Lyric Opera Studio, Weimar, Germany; Musik Hochshule in Leipzig, Germany; Vianden Festival in Luxembourg; Yonsei University in Seoul; and FAVA in France.
His students perform leading roles with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, National Theater-Munich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, Salzburg Festival, Arena di Verona, Bayreuth Festival, and others.
Timothy Noble (Distinguished Professor)
trnoble@indiana.edu
(812) 855-6118
Education
M.M., Indiana University, 1981, B.M., Indiana University, 1977
Biography
Baritone Timothy Noble has enjoyed an international career spanning 44 years, performing leading roles at major opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Canadian Opera Company, La Fenice in Venice, Netherlands Opera Santa Fe Opera, and the Glyndebourne Festival. He has performed in concert with the London Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Cincinnati Symphony and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Ravinia Festival, to name a few. He toured with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians for seven years, has appeared on Broadway, and received a Grammy nomination for his performance as Harold Hill on the Telarc recording of The Music Man with the Cincinnati Pops under conductor Erich Kunzel.
Noble is now beginning his eleventh year at the Jacobs School of Music and was elevated to Distinguished Professor in 2004. He serves as vocal trainer/coach for the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble program and is the founder and director of the Charley Creek Vocal Workshop held each June in Wabash, Ind. He is also in demand as an adjudicator and clinician throughout North America.
Noble's students have won the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions at the District, Regional, Semi-final, and Grand Finals, the Palm Beach Vocal Competition, the George London Competition, the Bel Canto Competition, the Orpheus Competition, and the Matinee Musicale Competition. During the summer of 2009, his student Jordan Bisch won the second prize of $20,000 at Placido Domingo's Operalia International Competition.
Noble's students hold or have held positions with virtually every young artist program in North America, including the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera Merola and Adler programs, and Santa Fe Opera. His students have gone on to appear in major roles with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Omaha, Indianapolis Opera, Sarasota Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, and Virginia Opera.
Andreas Poulimenos (Professor)
apoulime@indiana.edu
(812) 856-7278
Education
M.M., Boston Conservatory of Music, 1968 / B.M., Boston Conservatory of Music, 1966
Biography
Baritone Andreas Poulimenos was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for study in Rome, Italy; a recipient of the "Faculty Excellence Award;" and is a former faculty member of Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Professor Poulimenos has made operatic and concert appearances throughout the United States and in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland.
His students have won numerous national and international awards, including an Emmy and a Tony, and perform at the Metropolitan Opera and other opera houses throughout the world.
Scharmal Schrock (Senior Lecturer)
skschroc@indiana.edu
(812) 856-1208
Education
M.M., Indiana University, 1967
B.S., College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 1963
Biography
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.
Marietta Simpson (Professor)
simpsonm@indiana.edu
(812) 855-2721
Education
B.M.E. in Music Education, Temple University, 1981
M.M., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1983
Biography
Mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson, a native of Philadelphia, began her operatic training at Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, New York. She was a member of the Houston Opera Studio for several seasons and has sung roles with Mobile and Minnesota Opeas, Opera Delaware, Opera North, August and Columbus Operas, the New York City Opera, Royal Opera House, and Covent Garden.
Ms. Simpson has performed with many of the world's great conductors, including the late Robert Shaw, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Simon Rattle, Helmuth Rilling, Charles Dutoit, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Neeme Jarvi and Neville Marriner.
As a recitalist, Ms. Simpson has performed in the United States and Europe. She has sung with all the major orchestras in the United States and most of those in Europe, including the Vienna Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Dallas, Minneapolis, Seattle, Tucson, Duluth-Superior, Tulsa, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Flint, Memphis, Eugene, Kansas City and Knoxville symphonies.
Patricia Stiles (Associate Professor)
pstiles@indiana.edu
(812) 855-0456
Education
M.M., University of Maryland
B.A., Georgetown College, Kentucky
Biography
Patricia Stiles studied with Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Oren Brown and also coached with Joan Dornemann, Martin Katz, Erik Werba, and others. She is a recipient of a Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music grant.
Professor Stiles performed over seventy operatic roles including Carmen, Dalila, Eboli, Octavian, Orpheus, Ortrud, Erda, Rosina, Dorabella, and Cherubino with international opera houses including National Theater (Munich), Semperoper (Dresden), Leipzig Opera, Duesseldorf Opera, Washington Opera (Kennedy Center). She has given numerous recitals, has appeared as soloist with several European orchestras, and has presented master classes in Germany, Austria, Italy, Mexico, Russia, and the United States. She also has recordings with Musical Heritage Society, Embassy Sound, Cavalli Records.
Professor Stiles returned to the United States in 1998 to teach voice at Indiana University. She has students performing in opera houses in the U.S., Austria, and in Germany. Her students have been winners in numerous contests including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Wolfgang Brendel
Professor of Practice (Voice)
wbrendel@indiana.edu
(812) 856-7049
Merrill Hall, MU004
Biography
Before his appointment to the Jacobs School of Music, baritone Wolfgang Brendel was a professor of voice at the Munich Hochschule für Musik und Theater. His artistic home for the greater part of his career was the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Brendel established his primacy as the star Munich baritone of his era across an extraordinary range of roles, from Mozart to Verdi to Wagner and beyond. In 1973, he achieved acclaim as Pelléas in a new production by Jean-Pierre Ponelle of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1975 at the age of 27. Brendel has performed on all the major opera stages in Germany and Europe, in Tokyo and in the United States. In 1997, he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany).
Jane Dutton
Associate Professor of Music (Voice)
duttonj@indiana.edu
Music Addition, MA113
Education
A.D. in Vocal Performance, Yale University, 1995
M.M. in Vocal Performance, Indiana University, 1992
B.M. in Vocal Performance, Indiana University, 1988
Biography
Jane Dutton is associate professor of voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
An Indiana native, she has sung in many of the top opera houses in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, English National Opera (London), Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain), and New York City Opera—first as a mezzo-soprano and now as a dramatic soprano.
Dutton made her European opera debut at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre Del Liceu and was reengaged by the theater for 10 seasons. She has sung several seasons at London’s English National Opera, most recently appearing as Kundry in Parsifal. That appearance marked the start of her career as a Wagnerian soprano, and she has since sung many of the major Wagnerian roles in the United States, Germany, and Hong Kong.
In the United States, Dutton has sung Jordan Baker in John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby and Stephano in Roméo et Juliette, as well as numerous other roles for the Metropolitan Opera. In addition to her appearances in major U.S. opera houses, she has sung with more than 25 U.S. regional opera houses, in more than 30 different major roles.
Dutton’s orchestral work highlights include appearances with the New York Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, RTE National Symphony (Ireland), Prague Radio Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Houston Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and the Korean Broadcast Symphony at the United Nations General Assembly. She has recorded under the Chandos and Albany Records labels.
She has been awarded prizes in many competitions, including Placido Domingo’s Operalia. She earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Indiana University, where she studied with famed Wagnerian Margaret Harshaw. Dutton received an Artist Diploma from Yale University.
Brian Gill
Associate Professor of Music (Voice )
brpgill@iu.edu
(812) 856-1208
East Studio Building, JS332
Education
D.M.A. in Vocal Performance, University of Kentucky, 2007
Certificate in Vocology, University of I
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