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Shenandoah’s CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute Awards Lifetime Achievement Award to Melissa Cross

Shenandoah’s CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute Awards Lifetime Achievement Award to Melissa Cross

Celebrated "Scream Queen" Honored for Transforming Contemporary Commercial Music Voice Training

The Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Vocal Pedagogy Institute recently honored Melissa Cross with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The award, presented annually to honor a…

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Baldridge ’25 Explores SU’s Musical History in Dissertation Research

Polly Baldridge ’25 (Doctor of Musical Arts in Pedagogy – Voice) explored aspects of Shenandoah University’s (SU) rich musical history in her dissertation, “Singing Instructions…

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Herbst and Meyer Publish Article, ‘Pädagogische Interventionen in der Stimmbildung,’ in Vox Humana

Visiting Adjunct Professor of Voice Science Christian T. Herbst, Ph.D., and Director of the Janette Ogg Voice Research Center and Associate Professor of Voice (Baritone)…

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Research by Herbst Debunks Long-standing Myth about High-pitched Classical Singing

A long-held belief among voice pedagogues and scientists is that the highest pitches sung by operatic sopranos – like Mozart’s famous “Queen of the Night”…

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Lori Şen Appointed Assistant Professor of Vocal Pedagogy

Shenandoah Conservatory announces the appointment of Lori Şen, D.M.A., as assistant professor of vocal pedagogy beginning August 2024. Turkish mezzo-soprano and Fulbright alumna Dr. Şen…

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