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Vocal studies are available to students at SPU as majors, minors and others active in the department. Voice instruction is offered as individual lessons and group instruction (Class Voice). The voice faculty features outstanding teachers and performers. All are active in the region as professional soloists and adjudicators. For specifics on the degree program, please visit Music Performance in the Degree Programs section of this website.
Courses and recitals are offered to assist the development and training of vocal artists. Please see Course Descriptions for further information. These courses include:
*Individual instruction is by audition only for qualified music majors, music minors, music scholarship recipients and students active in departmental activities. |
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Vernon Wicker Emeritus. Dr. Vernon Wicker, Head of Vocal Studies and Director of the Men's Choir (Männerchor), holds degrees from Biola University, Indiana University Bloomington, and University of Oregon, and taught various music subjects at Seattle Pacific for 23 years. Before singing professionally in central Europe for eleven years, he was under Columbia Artists' Management in New York. As of 1982 he sang annual concert tours with Peter Alexander Stadtmüller, organ professor from Mainz, Germany, in cathedrals, churches and universities in Europe and the United States. Those tours included the cathedrals in Pittsburgh, Arlington, Erie, and Indianapolis, Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, Dartmouth College and the University of Notre Dame, and, in Germany, the Marktkirche in Halle and the cathedrals in Mainz and Worms. For ten years he trained and conducted choirs in numerous cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He held lectures at SMU, Notre Dame, Concordia Seminary (St. Louis), University of Mainz, the Hochschulen für Musik in Halle, Herford and Stuttgart, the Institut für Kirchenmusik in Zürich, and for the Hymn Societies, NATS, CMS, AGO and for the Kansan Raamattuseuran Säätiö (Helsinki). Together with his wife, Jutta, Professor Wicker has made lyric translations into English of over one hundred major German choral and solo vocal works for various German and American publishers. One of his former SPU students sings leading roles in major opera houses, another chairs a college voice department, and yet another represents a denominational ministry at the United Nations. |
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Cathy Haight Bio coming soon. |
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Jacinta McLachlan-Koreski Jacinta McLachlan-Koreski has performed throughout the US and Europe in musical theatre and opera. She was a soloist with the St. Moritz Choral Festival under the direction of Karl Richter. "Jackie" is an active participant in the Seattle Opera Program, 5th Avenue Theater Company, Tacoma Opera, Seattle Civic Light Opera, and Seattle’Äôs Northwest Opera in the Schools program. She has recorded over a dozen movie soundtracks and does voice-over work for such companies as "IMAX", Sierra on-Line, Sega, Fox TV, and Voice Works. Jackie performs and records with "Nova Caledonia," a group that performs classical arrangements of Celtic music. At SPU, Jackie teaches private voice, class voice, opera workshop, musical theatre and cabaret. She also maintains a private studio of working professionals, intermediate, and beginning vocalists. Jackie is a regular adjudicator and clinician for Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), Music Educators National Conference (MENC), National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), and the 5th Avenue Theater Company’Äôs Search for the Stars. Jackie lives in Seattle with her husband and three children and attends St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, where she is the resident soloist, cantor and assistant choral activities director. |
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Julie Kae Sigars Julie Kae Sigars has been seen and heard in opera,operetta, musicals, oratorio, recitals, galas, solo orchestra appearances, pop concerts, cabaret suppers clubs, and commercials. She as appeared in numerous roles with the Tacoma Opera and Everett Opera. With NOISE (Northwest Opera in Schools, Etc.) she has toured Western Washington elementary schools in condensed version of well-known operas. Julie Kae has sung with Seattle Opera’Äôs touring educational program. Other appearances include engagements with the Bellevue Philharmonic, Cascade Symphony, Seattle Bach Choir, Philharmonia Northwest, and the Everett Chorale. A native Texan, she has music degrees from the University of North Texas and Northern Arizona University, and a Masters of Divinity from Seattle University's School of Theology and Ministry. Julie Kae and her husband, Chuck, a local writer, have two children and a sheltie. At SPU, Julie Kae teaches voice, class voice and general education courses. |