Members at Large
Christine Amon
Christine Amon is a versatile mezzo-soprano excelling in opera, musical theater, and art song. Her stage roles include Dorabella in Così fan tutte, the title role in Cendrillon, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Erika in Vanessa, Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel among many others. She has appeared with Nashville Opera, Opera Carolina, Toledo Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, Union Avenue Opera, and Opera Memphis where she created the role of Mich in Mich and the Moon in the world premiere of The Ghosts of Crosstown. In 2018 she was a finalist in the international Lotte Lenya Competition hosted by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.
Dr. Amon hails from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and earned her BM at Grand Valley State University where she was named a Distinguished Alumna in 2015. At Bowling Green State University, she took first place in the Marjorie Conrad Art Song Competition while earning her MM. During her DMA studies at the University of Michigan, she worked as a graduate student instructor, teaching applied voice and vocal pedagogy.
Dr. Amon hails from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and earned her BM at Grand Valley State University where she was named a Distinguished Alumna in 2015. At Bowling Green State University, she took first place in the Marjorie Conrad Art Song Competition while earning her MM. During her DMA studies at the University of Michigan, she worked as a graduate student instructor, teaching applied voice and vocal pedagogy.
Cayla Rosché
Dr. Cayla Rosché recently completed her tenure as a Fulbright Scholar in Reykjavík teaching phonetics and continuing her research on Icelandic art song at Listaháskoli/Iceland University of the Arts, culminating in a full recital of this repertory. She is a former American-Scandinavian Foundation recipient, and has presented her research at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies conference, the Sam Houston Art Song Festival, and the Arctic Circle Conference. Dr. Rosché holds a DMA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Voice Performance and Vocal Pedagogy where her doctoral project, supported by the Foreign Language Area Studies grant, included one of the first guides to Icelandic Singing Diction. She additionally was recently selected as a member of the highly competitive National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program. She has had success teaching contemporary to classical voice in both a private and collegiate studio and enjoys teaching a wide range of styles. As a performer she has been seen in the roles of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Anne Sexton Transformations (also the premiere recording of this work), Mrs. Grose in Turn of the Screw, and Lady Billows in Albert Herring. Currently she is on the voice faculty at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Adam Moxness
Adam Moxness is an Instructor of Musical Theatre Voice at Viterbo University in La Crosse, WI. He received his MFA in Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy from Boston Conservatory where he began his research in designing a student-led, accessibility based, and neurodiversity-affirming vocal pedagogy. Adam is passionate about providing accessible and inclusive voice training to diverse populations. He is continuing to develop a resource for voice teachers called Universal Design for Voice Teaching (UDVT) and hopes to one day make voice education accessible for all.
His UDVT research has been nationally recognized through Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee
(Faculty Development Course), Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance (Conference Presentation), Pan American Vocology Association (Conference Presentation), Voice Study Centre (Online Short Course), College Autism Network (Poster), National Association of Teachers of Singing (Poster/Conference Presentation), and more.
In addition to education and research, Adam is an avid performer. Recent credits include Jimmy Ray/ Bright Star (Weber Center); Jervis Pendleton/ Daddy Long Legs (Awaken Theatre); Lt. Cable/ South Pacific (Music on Stage); Phil Davis/ White Christmas (Forte Productions); Bert/ Mary Poppins (Fremont Street); Laurie/ Little Women (Thulin Performance Hall). Original Cast credits include Shawn/ The Callback (Inhabit Theater) and Ricky Rock/ Vaudeville Fiasco (Inhabit Theater).
Website: adammoxness.com YouTube/Instagram/TikTok: @udvt.studio
His UDVT research has been nationally recognized through Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee
(Faculty Development Course), Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance (Conference Presentation), Pan American Vocology Association (Conference Presentation), Voice Study Centre (Online Short Course), College Autism Network (Poster), National Association of Teachers of Singing (Poster/Conference Presentation), and more.
In addition to education and research, Adam is an avid performer. Recent credits include Jimmy Ray/ Bright Star (Weber Center); Jervis Pendleton/ Daddy Long Legs (Awaken Theatre); Lt. Cable/ South Pacific (Music on Stage); Phil Davis/ White Christmas (Forte Productions); Bert/ Mary Poppins (Fremont Street); Laurie/ Little Women (Thulin Performance Hall). Original Cast credits include Shawn/ The Callback (Inhabit Theater) and Ricky Rock/ Vaudeville Fiasco (Inhabit Theater).
Website: adammoxness.com YouTube/Instagram/TikTok: @udvt.studio
