About this event

The School of Music Voice Area welcomes Dr. Madeline Harts on campus on October 7th for a day of learning and music making.  Join Dr. Harts, Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre Voice at SUNY Binghamton University in Binghamton, NY, for a guest lecture on Women Composers in Musical Theatre.  She will also present a masterclass with current School of Music vocalists, accompanied by Dr. Amy Au.

Dr. Harts is a voice teacher and coach, vocologist, singer, collaborative pianist, and arts executive. She is an SVI Trained Vocologist from the esteemed Summer Vocology Institute at the University of Utah. A strong advocate for the advancement and outreach of musical arts, she has an equal passion for vocal pedagogy, performance, voice habilitation, and arts leadership.

​As an educator, Dr. Harts has held positions at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, SUNY Fredonia School of Music, Niagara University, the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and as a voice teacher at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, Miami Conservatory of Music, Bowling Green State University and the BGSU Summer Vocal Arts Academy. Dr. Harts also is experienced in Estill Voice Training and a fellow of the Summer Vocology Institute (2025, 2026) at the University of Utah.

Dr. Harts is an active researcher and in January 2025 was an Honorary Award winner at the National Opera Association (NOA) and National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Winter Conference for her academic paper "Taking Care: The Case for Voice Care Networks in the Opera Company." She was also awarded a 2020 Presser Foundation Music Grant to conduct research and record the art songs of women composers Liza Lehmann and Clara Kathleen Rogers at the Harvard University Houghton Archives and British Library. Dr. Harts was selected to present on these findings at the 2022 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Conference in Chicago, IL and the 2022 Sam Houston State University (SHSU) Art Song Festival. She continues to present vocal masterclasses and workshops at universities nationally.

Praised for her "freely produced top and dark midrange" that "takes avian flight" by South Florida Classical Review, Dr. Harts sings repertoire spanning the canon of classical music and musical theatre; from Handel to contemporary works. She was an artist for the John Duffy Institute of New Opera, hosted by American composer Libby Larsen, where she workshopped roles for new operatic works. Her workshop premieres also include Christopher Cerrone's In a Grove (harp/piano) and Leanna Kirchoff's Friday After Friday (soprano). She was also a winner of the Patti and Alan Herbert Frost School of Music's Mirabelle Competition in Salzburg, Austria where she presented the recital "Broadway Musicale" as apart of the annual Salzburgfestspiel.

Dr. Harts is an alumnus of the Resident Artist Program for the Toledo Opera Company, both as a soprano and pianist. Productions include Der Schauspieldirektor (Madame Herz), The Light in the Piazza (Margaret Johnson), The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel), The Music Man (Marian), Die Fledermaus (Adele), Werther (Sophie), Aïda, Roméo et Juliette, and Lucia di Lammermoor, among others.  

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Additional information

• Attendance type: In person
• Cost: Free
• Event type: Arts & Culture