Kathryn Barnes-Burroughs

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Dr. Kathryn Barnes-Burroughs has enjoyed success in opera, recital, and concert engagements across the country with roles ranging from Santuzza and Azucena to Offenbach's Grand Duchess. Most recently heard in the title role of Bizet's Carmen with Meridian Symphony Orchestra in 2007, she toured with New York City Opera's National Company and has performed with New Orleans Opera Association, Hawaii Opera, Anchorage Opera, Ohio Light Opera, Pensacola Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and Shreveport Opera, among others. In her career since serving as a Louisiana Opera Intern, she has worked in productions with composers and conductors such as Gian Carlo Menotti, John Corigliano, Imre Pallo, Klauspeter Seibel, and Anton Coppola. Her concert engagements have taken her from the Anchorage Concert Association, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Connecticut Choral Society, to performance as featured artist with Santo Domingo's Orquesta Sinfónica Nacionál for Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. Recent engagements include multi-media performances at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, Rhode Island Chamber Music Series, SUNY Binghamton's New Music Series, Georgia Southeastern's Chamber Recital Series, and the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities. Her continuing contracts include appearances with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra and Lubbock Chorale for Bach's Magnificat in D; University of Hawaii's Concert Series in recital; The Cambridge Choral Institute's 2006 Mozart Requiem; with the Festival Escuela Superior in Matamoros, Mexico as featured multi-media recitalist and vocal master class clinician; as master class presenter at Houston's American Festival for the Arts; as a featured performer and clinician for the 2008 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) national conference; and as recruited faculty with the International 16th Pacific Voice Conference in Los Angeles. She recently presented research at the Austrian Voice Institute in Salzburg, serving also as Featured Master Teacher for the Institute's VIIth International Voice Symposium: On the Mozart Voice, as well as teaching for the fifth year on faculty with the Voice Foundation's Annual International Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice in Philadelphia both as a pedagogical researcher and 2006/07 workshop presenter of: Go with the Flow: the Breath and Beyond (06) and Sing What You are Saying (07). Her collaborative research with colleagues and students can be read in six current articles as published in the Journal of Voice.

Most notably, Dr. Barnes-Burroughs was awarded the 2007 Van L. Lawrence Fellowship by NATS and The Voice Foundation for the continuation of work that earned her the Alumni New Faculty Award for the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Texas Tech University in 2006. She earned the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Houston's Moores School of Music and has served as Coordinator, Vocal Applied Studies and Director of Opera at the University of South Alabama from 2000-2004. She was named Phi Kappa Phi's Artist of the Year at University of South Alabama in 2003 and served as adjunct Assistant Professor of Voice with the USA Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, re-training muscle-tension hyper-functioning Broadway voices and collaborating in vocal area research with Dr. Chistopher R. Watts. While in Alabama, she also served as founding executive director for The Voice Institute at USA: An Interdisciplinary Center for Voice and Research, a summer program for professional outreach and service.

Dr. Barnes-Burroughs enjoys her present appointment to the faculty of Texas Tech University School of Music as Associate Professor of Music in Voice and Opera. She currently serves as founding coordinator of The Texas Tech Voice Alliance: A Multi-disciplinary Research Initiative for faculty, undergraduate, and graduate researchers; Faculty Advisor of the newly formed student organization Associated Voice Scholars; Coordinator of The Annual TTU Voice Symposium presenting Professor Richard Miller in 2007, Robert Thayer Sataloff, M.D., D.M.A., F.A.C.S. in 2006, and Dr. Thomas F. Cleveland in 2005; and creating director of new instruction in graduate programs (MM, DMA, and PhD) in Voice with concentration in Voice Science and Pedagogy. She directs the Graduate Opera Project and teaches The Business of Singing, both courses she devised for the TTU Music Theatre Department, as well as leading Advanced Voice Research and Graduate Voice Pedagogy; and as an adjunct to her teaching, she mentors for the TTU Honor's College Undergraduate Research Fellow program. In service, she currently serves as secretary to the TTU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi; president of the Texas Panhandle Chapter of NATS; and Chair of the National NATS Pedagogy Committee under the leadership of president Martha Randall.