Visiting Instructor of Music (Voice)
During the 2007-2008 season as a soprano soloist, Mrs. Cox will perform Haydn's Theresan Messe, Vivaldi's Dixit Dominus with OU's Accademia Filarmonica under the paton of Dr. John Greenlee. Under the direction of Ken Hadoka, conductor of the Salina Symphony, she will perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Salina, Kansas. In February 2007, she performed with Dave Brubeck in his mass, To Hope, with the Canterbury Choral Society under the direction of Russell Gloyd. Other oratorio experience includes Bach's Magnificat, Rutter's Masses, Mozart's Vesperae K. 339 and Mass in C Minor, Brahms's Requiem, Vivaldi's Magnificat, Haydn's Creation, Handel's Messiah and multiple Schubert and Bach cantatas. Roles performed are Leila in Bizet's Pearl Fishers, the Mother in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Belinda and Second Woman in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Giulietta in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Lucia in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and Carolina in Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto. As a recitalist, Cox has performed on numerous university campuses in the United States. She has toured extensively throughout Germany, featured in recitals focusing on Mozart opera, oratorio and Lied. The soprano, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, is an alumna of the Eastman School of Music, where she earned her B.M. and M.M. Degrees in Vocal Performance. She is currently a second-year doctoral cohort, pursuing the degree of Doctor of Education in the College Teaching of Music at Teachers College, Columbia University, in the City of New York. Her special area of research explores the development of teaching strategies for dealing with singers experiencing articulation disorders. Mrs. Cox is currently a student of noted pedagogue David Jones in New York. Other teachers have included John Maloy, Don Bernardini and the late baritone, Thomas Carey. She coaches with Mark Armstrong of the Tulsa and Dallas Operas, Dr. Keith Chambers of the New York City Opera, Kevin Smith of the Cimarron Circuit Opera, and Korey Barrett of the Des Moines Opera. |
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Donna M. Cox, soprano, is an Instructor of Voice at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where she teaches Applied Voice at the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a pedagogue, she has facilitated vocal master classes in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, North Carolina and New York.