Treasurer/Membership Secretary
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 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 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, Vladimir Chernov, and Stephanie Blythe.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the fall of 2012 where he teaches applied voice, vocal pedagogy, and opera workshop, Dr. Markham 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.
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 in Princeton, New Jersey, and the Doctor of Music degree in Voice Performance from The Florida State University College of Music. He is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) at the national and state level where has most recently been elected as a Wisconsin board member, New York Singing Teachers Association (NYSTA), College Music Society (CMS), and the Dvořák Society of London. He continues to teach and perform at the Ameropa Solo and Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic each summer and for the Metropolitan International Music Festival in NYC each winter.
You can contact Matthew directly by clicking this link: Matthew Markham
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 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, Vladimir Chernov, and Stephanie Blythe.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the fall of 2012 where he teaches applied voice, vocal pedagogy, and opera workshop, Dr. Markham 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.
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 in Princeton, New Jersey, and the Doctor of Music degree in Voice Performance from The Florida State University College of Music. He is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) at the national and state level where has most recently been elected as a Wisconsin board member, New York Singing Teachers Association (NYSTA), College Music Society (CMS), and the Dvořák Society of London. He continues to teach and perform at the Ameropa Solo and Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic each summer and for the Metropolitan International Music Festival in NYC each winter.
You can contact Matthew directly by clicking this link: Matthew Markham
