Vocal Arts Division

The SDSU Vocal Arts Division is dedicated to training singers at the highest level of artistic achievement in an environment created to give a unique and personal experience to each student.  All students are offered free weekly private lessons taught by faculty members with impressive performance and pedagogical attainments. Students take classes covering vocal pedagogy, performance readiness, foreign language diction, art song repertoire and musicianship.

It is our goal to connect academia to the professional world at every stage of learning. Our students are given numerous opportunities to perform in weekly recitals and concerts, master classes taught by visiting artists, large and small choral ensembles, and in both opera scenes programs and full-scale opera productions. Our faculty members are renowned in the areas of performance ad pedagogy and have received their training at some of the world’s most prestigious music schools.

Faculty

• Michiko Lohorn, Vocal Coaching
• Laurinda Nikkel, voice, Coordinator of Vocal Arts Division
• Michael Sokol, voice, Director of Opera Theater
• Enrique Toral, voice
• Pauline Tweed, voice
• Patrick Walders, Director of Choral Activities

Collaborative pianists - Vocal Arts Division

• Maria Didur
• Hyueeun Ham
• Michiko Lohorn
• Suzanne Shick

 

Degrees Offered in Voice

Click here to learn more about the various degrees offered in Voice.

Information for Vocal Auditions

• An entrance audition is required for admittance to all vocal degree programs.
• All music must be memorized.
• All music must be performed with an accompanist.
• For information on repertoire requirements for freshmen, transfer and graduate students click here. The suggested repertoire lists are provided as guidelines only; you are not limited to the composers listed.

 




SDSU Opera Theater

SDSU Opera Theater offers training in acting, stage movement, repertoire and style culminating in fully-staged full-length productions, one-act operas and scene programs. Recent productions have included The Mikado, Die Fledermaus, Le nozze di Figaro, The Tender Land and Trouble in Tahiti. The 2010 productions featured Menotti’s The Telephone, Old Maid and the Thief and The Medium.



SDSU Choral Program

It is the mission of the SDSU Choral Ensemble program to present high quality vocal performances of the finest choral literature on campus and in the community of San Diego. If you love to sing, want to explore your vocal potential and want to work hard in a motivated and friendly environment, then we want you! Choral conducting and literature classes are also offered to all voice majors.

 

 

Recent Masterclasses and Workshops

• Lori Laitman, visiting art song and opera composer.
• Ann Baltz, Operaworks
• Robert White, Master Teacher, Juilliard
• Mary Saunders, Musical Theater, “Bel canto, can belto”
• Kelly Kaduce, operatic soprano, Metropolitan Opera
• Daniel Helfgot, Stage Director and author of “The Third Line”
• Barbara Honn, Master Teacher, classical voice
• Amy Likar, Alexander Technique and Body Mapping for the performer
• Barry Green, The Inner Game of Music

 



 

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Contact Information:

Laurinda Nikkel, Vocal Arts Coordinator
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619-594-6042


Patrick Walders, Director of Choral Activities
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619-594-6315