2021 WI NATS Board Nominees:
President: Matthew Markham
Vice President: Jennifer Conrad-Proulx
Recording Secretary: Rachel Warrick
Treasurer/Membership Secretary: Antonina Johnston
At-large member (to finish Jennifer’s term): Julia Rottmayer
President: Matthew Markham
Baritone Matthew Markham enjoys an active career on the operatic, concert, and recital stages. He has appeared on the operatic stage with Ash Lawn Opera, Janiec Opera, Spoleto Festival, New Jersey Opera, Manhattan Opera Theater of the French Institute Alliance Française, Da Ponte Concert Opera, Westminster Opera Theater, and Florida State Opera. Roles span Mozart through lyric French and English/American opera. He is a frequent soloist in oratorio ranging Bach to Britten and has performed in prestigious concert venues including Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City and Suk Hall at the Rudolfinum in Prague, Czech Republic.
An avid interpreter of art song, he has worked with musical luminaries Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, John Harbison, Jake Heggie, Ricky Ian Gordon and the late Craig Smith in performances at Songfest in Malibu, California. Dr. Markham has participated in master classes with Elly Ameling, Wolfgang Holzmair, Helmut Deutsch, Rudolf Jansen, Edith Wiens, Robert Tear and Jorma Hynninen at the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, Austria where he received a diploma in Poetry and Performance of the German Lied. He has twice been selected to participate in the Baldwin-Wallace Art Song Festival in Ohio where he has worked with Warren
Jones, François Le Roux, Anthony Dean Griffey, Vladimir Chernov, George Vassos, and Stephanie Blythe.
Awards include being named a Finalist in the Franco-American Vocal Academy French Art Song Competition in Tribute to Gérard Souzay; winner of various competitions including the Regional MacAllister Awards, the Glenys Gallaher Memorial Award for Musical and Academic Excellence, numerous Florida and New Jersey State and Regional National Association of Teachers of Singing competitions, winner of the Westminster Choir College Graduate Voice Competition; and various Rotary Club and regionally sponsored competitions.
Discography includes baritone soloist on the international world premier recording of Antonio Rosetti’s Requiem Es-Dur (Murray H 15), conducted by Johannes Moesus with the Camerata Filarmonica Bohemia, released commercially in 2011. He is also on the recording It’s About Love, conducted by Kenneth Dake as a member of The Marble Choir in NYC, released in 2013.
In the field of music research, Dr. Markham was a national recipient of the prestigious Theodore Presser Grant Award for Graduate Research in Music and a recipient of a Florida State University Dissertation Research Grant Award. These grants have enabled him to conduct research on the vocal compositions of Czech composer Petr Eben and have culminated in his doctoral treatise "A Study of Písně z Těšínska of Petr Eben." He has collaborated with Dr. Timothy Cheek, author of Singing in Czech, in lecture recitals on this subject at the Fort Wayne Art Song Festival where he also served as guest artist/teacher, at the International Czech Song and Aria Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Dr. Markham was published in the January/February 2015 NATS Journal of Singing: "Petr Eben's Písně z Těšínska: A Guide for Singers, Teachers, and Coaches."
Dr. Markham holds the Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from The Florida State University College of Music, Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College, and the Doctor of Music degree in Voice Performance from The Florida State University College of Music.
As a pedagogue, Dr. Markham has established himself as a reputable teacher of voice and has taught many students who have received awards and scholarships in regional, national, and international voice competitions; who have been accepted to summer apprentice programs at the national and international levels; and who have been accepted to some of the nation’s most renowned graduate voice programs.
Dr. Markham continues to expand his professional development as a voice pedagogue by attending and participating in various workshops throughout the country. In early 2019, he was the recipient of a university professional development award enabling him to participate in the David Jones Voice Teacher Mentoring Program in NYC. In the summer of 2017, Dr. Markham received a University Professional Development Grant Award enabling him to participate and complete all three levels of the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ in residence at Baldwin Wallace University. In the summer of 2015, he was selected as a professor within the University of Wisconsin system to attend Faculty College. In 2013, he received a faculty grant enabling him to participate in the 2013 Naked Voice Summer Institute at Northwestern University under the tutelage of W. Stephen Smith to which he was accepted as a voice teacher. As a NATS Teaching Intern in 2008, Dr. Markham was featured on a PBS Film Documentary and presented lectures on art song repertory and pedagogy for the college level voice student.
Dr. Markham joined the voice faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the fall of 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor of Voice in the spring of 2017. Dr. Markham received a UWSP Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2017-18 academic year. He teaches applied voice, vocal pedagogy, song literature, diction, a wellness course in vocal technique, and/or opera workshop. He made his directorial debut in the 2014 UWSP Opera Workshop production “American Opera Triptych” which included Barber’s “A Hand of Bridge,” and Menotti’s “The Telephone” and “The Old Maid and the Thief.” In the spring of 2016, he produced and directed the UWSP Opera Workshop production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte,” and in 2018, Dr. Markham directed a Puccini double bill including “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi.” In the spring of 2020 just before the pandemic, he produced and directed Johann Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” but the production was unable to be performed. Last spring, he produced and directed the UWSP Opera Workshop in a virtual production of "Don Impresario di Figaro: A Medley of Mozart Madness" complete with a script that he wrote alongside a handful of students.
Prior to his position at UWSP, he maintained a large private studio and taught voice at the Purnell School in New Jersey; taught applied voice and assisted courses in song literature, diction, foreign language for singers, and vocal pedagogy at Florida State University; served a one-year term position on the voice faculty of the DePauw University School of Music where he taught applied voice and song literature; and taught on the voice faculty of the Steinhardt School at New York University while maintaining a private studio in NYC.
He is an active member of NATS and currently serves on the Wisconsin NATS Board as Treasurer. Prior to his position as Treasurer, he served as Secretary and before that as a Member-At-Large. He serves as an adjudicator in various competitions including the NATS Student Auditions and the Classical Singer competition. He presented a co-masterclass entitled “Make Your Performance Count” at the National Classical Singer Convention in Chicago in May 2017 along with his voice colleague Susan Bender.
Dr. Markham has been a faculty resident-artist at the Ameropa Solo and Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic for three summers and has taught for the Metropolitan International Music Festival in NYC. He is delighted to return to the International Lyric Academy in Vicenza, Italy to teach for the third time this coming summer. For more information, please visit www.matthewmarkham.net.
Baritone Matthew Markham enjoys an active career on the operatic, concert, and recital stages. He has appeared on the operatic stage with Ash Lawn Opera, Janiec Opera, Spoleto Festival, New Jersey Opera, Manhattan Opera Theater of the French Institute Alliance Française, Da Ponte Concert Opera, Westminster Opera Theater, and Florida State Opera. Roles span Mozart through lyric French and English/American opera. He is a frequent soloist in oratorio ranging Bach to Britten and has performed in prestigious concert venues including Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City and Suk Hall at the Rudolfinum in Prague, Czech Republic.
An avid interpreter of art song, he has worked with musical luminaries Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, John Harbison, Jake Heggie, Ricky Ian Gordon and the late Craig Smith in performances at Songfest in Malibu, California. Dr. Markham has participated in master classes with Elly Ameling, Wolfgang Holzmair, Helmut Deutsch, Rudolf Jansen, Edith Wiens, Robert Tear and Jorma Hynninen at the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, Austria where he received a diploma in Poetry and Performance of the German Lied. He has twice been selected to participate in the Baldwin-Wallace Art Song Festival in Ohio where he has worked with Warren
Jones, François Le Roux, Anthony Dean Griffey, Vladimir Chernov, George Vassos, and Stephanie Blythe.
Awards include being named a Finalist in the Franco-American Vocal Academy French Art Song Competition in Tribute to Gérard Souzay; winner of various competitions including the Regional MacAllister Awards, the Glenys Gallaher Memorial Award for Musical and Academic Excellence, numerous Florida and New Jersey State and Regional National Association of Teachers of Singing competitions, winner of the Westminster Choir College Graduate Voice Competition; and various Rotary Club and regionally sponsored competitions.
Discography includes baritone soloist on the international world premier recording of Antonio Rosetti’s Requiem Es-Dur (Murray H 15), conducted by Johannes Moesus with the Camerata Filarmonica Bohemia, released commercially in 2011. He is also on the recording It’s About Love, conducted by Kenneth Dake as a member of The Marble Choir in NYC, released in 2013.
In the field of music research, Dr. Markham was a national recipient of the prestigious Theodore Presser Grant Award for Graduate Research in Music and a recipient of a Florida State University Dissertation Research Grant Award. These grants have enabled him to conduct research on the vocal compositions of Czech composer Petr Eben and have culminated in his doctoral treatise "A Study of Písně z Těšínska of Petr Eben." He has collaborated with Dr. Timothy Cheek, author of Singing in Czech, in lecture recitals on this subject at the Fort Wayne Art Song Festival where he also served as guest artist/teacher, at the International Czech Song and Aria Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Dr. Markham was published in the January/February 2015 NATS Journal of Singing: "Petr Eben's Písně z Těšínska: A Guide for Singers, Teachers, and Coaches."
Dr. Markham holds the Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from The Florida State University College of Music, Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College, and the Doctor of Music degree in Voice Performance from The Florida State University College of Music.
As a pedagogue, Dr. Markham has established himself as a reputable teacher of voice and has taught many students who have received awards and scholarships in regional, national, and international voice competitions; who have been accepted to summer apprentice programs at the national and international levels; and who have been accepted to some of the nation’s most renowned graduate voice programs.
Dr. Markham continues to expand his professional development as a voice pedagogue by attending and participating in various workshops throughout the country. In early 2019, he was the recipient of a university professional development award enabling him to participate in the David Jones Voice Teacher Mentoring Program in NYC. In the summer of 2017, Dr. Markham received a University Professional Development Grant Award enabling him to participate and complete all three levels of the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ in residence at Baldwin Wallace University. In the summer of 2015, he was selected as a professor within the University of Wisconsin system to attend Faculty College. In 2013, he received a faculty grant enabling him to participate in the 2013 Naked Voice Summer Institute at Northwestern University under the tutelage of W. Stephen Smith to which he was accepted as a voice teacher. As a NATS Teaching Intern in 2008, Dr. Markham was featured on a PBS Film Documentary and presented lectures on art song repertory and pedagogy for the college level voice student.
Dr. Markham joined the voice faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the fall of 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor of Voice in the spring of 2017. Dr. Markham received a UWSP Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2017-18 academic year. He teaches applied voice, vocal pedagogy, song literature, diction, a wellness course in vocal technique, and/or opera workshop. He made his directorial debut in the 2014 UWSP Opera Workshop production “American Opera Triptych” which included Barber’s “A Hand of Bridge,” and Menotti’s “The Telephone” and “The Old Maid and the Thief.” In the spring of 2016, he produced and directed the UWSP Opera Workshop production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte,” and in 2018, Dr. Markham directed a Puccini double bill including “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi.” In the spring of 2020 just before the pandemic, he produced and directed Johann Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” but the production was unable to be performed. Last spring, he produced and directed the UWSP Opera Workshop in a virtual production of "Don Impresario di Figaro: A Medley of Mozart Madness" complete with a script that he wrote alongside a handful of students.
Prior to his position at UWSP, he maintained a large private studio and taught voice at the Purnell School in New Jersey; taught applied voice and assisted courses in song literature, diction, foreign language for singers, and vocal pedagogy at Florida State University; served a one-year term position on the voice faculty of the DePauw University School of Music where he taught applied voice and song literature; and taught on the voice faculty of the Steinhardt School at New York University while maintaining a private studio in NYC.
He is an active member of NATS and currently serves on the Wisconsin NATS Board as Treasurer. Prior to his position as Treasurer, he served as Secretary and before that as a Member-At-Large. He serves as an adjudicator in various competitions including the NATS Student Auditions and the Classical Singer competition. He presented a co-masterclass entitled “Make Your Performance Count” at the National Classical Singer Convention in Chicago in May 2017 along with his voice colleague Susan Bender.
Dr. Markham has been a faculty resident-artist at the Ameropa Solo and Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic for three summers and has taught for the Metropolitan International Music Festival in NYC. He is delighted to return to the International Lyric Academy in Vicenza, Italy to teach for the third time this coming summer. For more information, please visit www.matthewmarkham.net.
Vice President: Jennifer Conrad-Proulx
A native of Milwaukee, Jennifer Conrad-Proulx opened her studio in 2001 and has since served on the voice faculty at the Community Music School in Buffalo, NY and the All Newton Music School in Newton, MA before returning to Milwaukee in 2013 to open an independent studio.
Her students have been seen singing backup on tour with folk legend Joan Baez and opening for artists such as The Indigo Girls and Rusted Root. Studio alumni have been seen Off-Broadway and touring in National Broadway Tours in addition to many local performance organizations such as First Stage Theater (Milwaukee, WI), Milwaukee Children's Choir (Milwaukee, WI), Boston Children's Theater (Boston, MA) and Boston Children's Chorus (Boston, MA).
Alumni of the studio have continued their studies in colleges across the United States, including but not limited to the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, and Georgetown University.
A member of NATS since 2007, Jennifer was one of fourteen national award winners of the 2016 Joan Frey Boytim Award for Independent Teachers.
Performing credits include Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Annina in Der Rosenkavalier and the North American Premiere of Oedipe as Merope with Sinfonia da Camera. In recital, Jennifer remains a champion of contemporary song and women composers. She has premiered works of local and regional composers throughout her career. A winner of the Wisconsin Public Radio’s Neale-Silva Competition, she appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live from the Elvejem in recital. Jennifer may be heard on Albany Records recording of George Enescu 's opera Oedipe.
Jennifer holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, with additional studies at La Musica Lirica and La Scuola Italia in Italy. You may find more information at www.jenniferconradproulx.com
A native of Milwaukee, Jennifer Conrad-Proulx opened her studio in 2001 and has since served on the voice faculty at the Community Music School in Buffalo, NY and the All Newton Music School in Newton, MA before returning to Milwaukee in 2013 to open an independent studio.
Her students have been seen singing backup on tour with folk legend Joan Baez and opening for artists such as The Indigo Girls and Rusted Root. Studio alumni have been seen Off-Broadway and touring in National Broadway Tours in addition to many local performance organizations such as First Stage Theater (Milwaukee, WI), Milwaukee Children's Choir (Milwaukee, WI), Boston Children's Theater (Boston, MA) and Boston Children's Chorus (Boston, MA).
Alumni of the studio have continued their studies in colleges across the United States, including but not limited to the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, and Georgetown University.
A member of NATS since 2007, Jennifer was one of fourteen national award winners of the 2016 Joan Frey Boytim Award for Independent Teachers.
Performing credits include Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Annina in Der Rosenkavalier and the North American Premiere of Oedipe as Merope with Sinfonia da Camera. In recital, Jennifer remains a champion of contemporary song and women composers. She has premiered works of local and regional composers throughout her career. A winner of the Wisconsin Public Radio’s Neale-Silva Competition, she appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Live from the Elvejem in recital. Jennifer may be heard on Albany Records recording of George Enescu 's opera Oedipe.
Jennifer holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, with additional studies at La Musica Lirica and La Scuola Italia in Italy. You may find more information at www.jenniferconradproulx.com
Recording Secretary: Rachel Edie Warrick
RACHEL EDIE WARRICK is a Madison-area singer and teacher who has sung with Madison Opera, Opera for the Young, Fresco Opera, Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, Motor City Lyric Opera, Comic Opera Guild, and the Madison Bach Musicians. Favorite operatic roles include Almirena in Rinaldo, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and the Second Lady in the Magic Flute. Ms. Warrick has performed with professional ensembles around the country, including Music of the Baroque in Chicago; Conspirare in Austin; Vox in Ann Arbor; and she is a founding member of the Madison Choral Project. Rachel has been heard as a soloist throughout the midwest in Handel’s Alexander’s Feast, Bach’s B Minor Mass, St. Matthew Passion and Magnificat, Mozart’s Vespers, and Haydn’s Creation. She holds a BM in Voice and Music Education from Lawrence Conservatory of Music and an MM in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan. Ms. Warrick has taught at UW-Oshkosh, Concordia University in Ann Arbor, and has maintained a private studio of young artists since 2005. Rachel’s students have received top awards at state, regional, and national competitions; and have gone on to receive scholarships and to study voice at Eastman Conservatory of Music, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, and UW-Stevens Point. Her students perform with Madison Opera and Janiec Opera Company in Brevard, North Carolina, Oberlin in Italy, German Vocal Arts Institute, and Opera in the Ozarks. Rachel currently follows her passions to teach and perform in the Madison area, maintaining and nurturing the artists in her private studio, teaching K-1 music at EAGLE school, singing in professional ensembles, and serving on the board of the Wisconsin NATS
chapter.
Treasurer/Membership Secretary: Antonina Johnston
Antonina Johnston (she/her/hers) is a Soprano and Private Voice Teacher. Antonina is an Associate Lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she teaches Class Voice, Voice Lessons, and Business for Performing Artists. Recently she earned a University Innovation Fellowship through the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. Antonina is currently completing a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management through the Helen Bader Institute and her Masters in Music Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she received her vocal degree in 2009. She has been teaching private voice lessons for the past twelve years and is the owner of Johnston Voice Studio, LLC. Her students have consistently participated in singing competitions nationally and statewide. She is a current member of MTEA and NATS and teaches classical, musical theatre and contemporary styles of singing. Antonina is also a former board member and Program Manager for the Civic Music Association of Milwaukee. In addition to running a successful voice studio, she and her family are dedicated to promoting music education, equity, inclusivity, and access to the performing arts.
Antonina Johnston (she/her/hers) is a Soprano and Private Voice Teacher. Antonina is an Associate Lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she teaches Class Voice, Voice Lessons, and Business for Performing Artists. Recently she earned a University Innovation Fellowship through the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. Antonina is currently completing a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management through the Helen Bader Institute and her Masters in Music Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she received her vocal degree in 2009. She has been teaching private voice lessons for the past twelve years and is the owner of Johnston Voice Studio, LLC. Her students have consistently participated in singing competitions nationally and statewide. She is a current member of MTEA and NATS and teaches classical, musical theatre and contemporary styles of singing. Antonina is also a former board member and Program Manager for the Civic Music Association of Milwaukee. In addition to running a successful voice studio, she and her family are dedicated to promoting music education, equity, inclusivity, and access to the performing arts.
At-large member: Julia Rottmayer
Soprano Julia Rottmayer, assistant adjunct professor of voice, is active in the stage, concert, and teaching arenas. Along with her interpretation of standard repertoire, Dr. Rottmayer is an avid performer and champion of contemporary and early music. Recent performances include the title role in Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Everly Shrills in The Impresario with Opera Orlando. In 2014, Dr. Rottmayer was honored to be chosen as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the Orlando Ballet for the grand opening of Orlando’s premiere performing venue, The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Other favorites include her performances as soprano soloist in Brahms’ Requiem, Mozart’s Grand Mass in C, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, Haydn’s Creation, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites, Beth in Adamo’s Little Women, Mabel in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Rose Maurrant in Weill’s Street Scene. In addition to her numerous concert and operatic credits, Dr. Rottmayer has toured nationally, singing art song recitals with repertoire ranging from Bach to Berg, Clérambault to Fauré, Lauridsen to Mussorgsky, and much more. She has premiered works for such art song composers as Scott Gendel and Daniel Crozier, and was honored to sing for former President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel.
In addition to performing, Dr. Rottmayer is a dedicated voice teacher. She maintains a private voice studio and is a member of the voice faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is a frequent master class clinician, workshop presenter, and adjudicator at universities and competitions. Dr. Rottmayer has served as president of the Central Florida Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) from 2013-2018 and is currently a member of the board of directors for MusikTheater Bavaria, a training program for opera and musical theater young artists held each summer in Oberaudorf, Germany. Past appointments include Assistant Professor of Voice at Rollins College where she supervised 12 adjunct voice and opera instructors, led a voice area of over 90 voice students, taught countless voice-related courses, and received the Professing Excellence award. She has also served as a member of the faculties of Kingwood College, Opera Orlando Youth Company, Berkshire Choral International, and MusikTheater Bavaria.
Dr. Rottmayer holds voice performance degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (BM), the Eastman School of Music (MM), and the Moores School of Music, University of Houston (DMA). In dedication to evidence-based teaching, Dr. Rottmayer has pursued further education in vocal health and voice science as it relates to singing and speech, having earned her certificate in Vocology from the National Center for Voice and Speech in 2012 with continuing studies at the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida since.
Soprano Julia Rottmayer, assistant adjunct professor of voice, is active in the stage, concert, and teaching arenas. Along with her interpretation of standard repertoire, Dr. Rottmayer is an avid performer and champion of contemporary and early music. Recent performances include the title role in Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Everly Shrills in The Impresario with Opera Orlando. In 2014, Dr. Rottmayer was honored to be chosen as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the Orlando Ballet for the grand opening of Orlando’s premiere performing venue, The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Other favorites include her performances as soprano soloist in Brahms’ Requiem, Mozart’s Grand Mass in C, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, Haydn’s Creation, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites, Beth in Adamo’s Little Women, Mabel in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Rose Maurrant in Weill’s Street Scene. In addition to her numerous concert and operatic credits, Dr. Rottmayer has toured nationally, singing art song recitals with repertoire ranging from Bach to Berg, Clérambault to Fauré, Lauridsen to Mussorgsky, and much more. She has premiered works for such art song composers as Scott Gendel and Daniel Crozier, and was honored to sing for former President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel.
In addition to performing, Dr. Rottmayer is a dedicated voice teacher. She maintains a private voice studio and is a member of the voice faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is a frequent master class clinician, workshop presenter, and adjudicator at universities and competitions. Dr. Rottmayer has served as president of the Central Florida Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) from 2013-2018 and is currently a member of the board of directors for MusikTheater Bavaria, a training program for opera and musical theater young artists held each summer in Oberaudorf, Germany. Past appointments include Assistant Professor of Voice at Rollins College where she supervised 12 adjunct voice and opera instructors, led a voice area of over 90 voice students, taught countless voice-related courses, and received the Professing Excellence award. She has also served as a member of the faculties of Kingwood College, Opera Orlando Youth Company, Berkshire Choral International, and MusikTheater Bavaria.
Dr. Rottmayer holds voice performance degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (BM), the Eastman School of Music (MM), and the Moores School of Music, University of Houston (DMA). In dedication to evidence-based teaching, Dr. Rottmayer has pursued further education in vocal health and voice science as it relates to singing and speech, having earned her certificate in Vocology from the National Center for Voice and Speech in 2012 with continuing studies at the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida since.
