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Sue Arnold, mezzo-soprano, holds the Master of Music degree in vocal
performance from the University of Illinois and has been a member of the
voice faculty in the School of Music at Texas Tech University since
1971. She teaches studio voice and graduate and undergraduate vocal
literature as well as graduate and undergraduate vocal pedagogy. She did
post-graduate work toward the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal
performance at Illinois in 1974.
She is music director, cantor and
composer at Christ the King Cathedral in Lubbock. She has done extensive
concert appearances with John Wustman, internationally acclaimed
coach/accompanist and has studied oratorio repertoire with William
Warfield, Lieder with Elisabeth Schwartzkopf and Brigitte Fassbaender,
as well as French Melodies with Pierre Bernac. Her opera roles include
Augusta (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Siebel (Faust), Octavian (Der
Rosenkavalier), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Suzuki (Madame Butterfly),
and the Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors). Her numerous concert
appearances include performances with Robert Shaw, Leonard Bernstein,
Aaron Copland, and the orchestras of Cleveland, Dallas, Winston-Salem,
Roswell, Midland-Odessa, Lubbock, and Texas Tech University.
In the summer of 1990 she was guest
artist for the Moravian Music Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
She has presented numerous recitals and masterclasses in vocal technique
throughout the United States including Pepperdine University in Malibu,
California, the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Campbell University in
North Carolina, and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
In the Summer of 1997 she was a member
of the voice faculty at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS)
is Graz, Austria. In the summer of 1998 she accompanied Texas Tech
University President Donald Haragan on a friendship concert tour of
Germany with performances in Wust, Berlin, and Wilhelmshaven. Their
final concert was hosted by the Deutsch-Amerikanische Gesellschaft of
Wilhelmshaven, Germany and was held in the beautiful hall of the
Ancestors of Burg Kniphausen (a newly restored 15th century castle.)
She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda
honorary music society, is listed in Outstanding Young Women of America,
1972 edition, World Who’s Who of Women, and the first edition of
Two-Thousand Distinguished Southerners, 1982.
To contact Sue Arnold, email:
mezzogolfer@aol.com.
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