VOICE INTENSIVE
Nancy E. Harris, VI Director, is a professional singer (mezzo), actress, vocologist, and voice
teacher. She is the Artistic Director of Rocky Mountain Opera Company, an officer in local chapters of MTNA and NATS, adjudicates, conducts voice workshops and
intensives, and has presented for the DPAC voice clinics.
Her education includes a BA in Vocal Music Education (K-12), a Master of Humanities, certification in Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy, CoreSinging(tm) Teacher Certification, and completion of the National Center for Voice and Speech Vocology Institute. Her vocal instructors have included Vera Scammon, Dr. Barbara Doscher, and Robert Lansing and Robert
Emerson of the Metropolitan Opera. She studied choral music under Robert
Shaw; sang under Sir Malcolm Sergeant with the London Philharmonic, and
with the San Jose Symphony and the Colorado Symphony.
She has appeared as the
mezzo soloist for the West Coast Premiere of Solomon's Gardens at
Stanford University, has been in over 30 musicals (most in principal roles), multiple chorales including those of the Loveland Opera Theatre, Schola Cantorum, and Cherry Creek Chorale, and is a retired college professor. A member of Opera Colorado's company for four years, she sang on
the recent NAXOS Opera Colorado recording of Nixon in China. Her solo recordings include two volumes of children's anthologies, One
Misty Moisty Morning, several other story-telling
CDs, her jazz album, With All My Love, Nance, and as
Marmee on the 2001 Original Cast Album of the Rodgers & Stevens Little
Women: The Musical. She may be contacted through her website at www.TheVoiceBuilder.com