Associate Professor of Music (Voice) Dr. Dolores Leffingwell, soprano, has been described by the Boston Globe as having, "real beauty in her singing," and "a genuine feel for the vocal art and that special charm it takes to draw the essence out of lieder." Leffingwell completed three years of graduate study at The Juilliard School, then earned a doctor of musical arts degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Leffingwell has been a recipient of the Schwabacher and Copen Grants for two years of study in Munich, Germany, and has served as a member of the research team investigating the singing voice headed by Dr. Martin Rothenburg at Syracuse University. In the Fall of 1990, with the support of a Peabody Career Grant, Leffingwell premiered 13 of the 21 unpublished lieder of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel she had collected in Berlin, Germany. She has performed with conductors James Levine and Robert Kopf and at the Vienna Kammer-Oper. Her major teachers include sopranos Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Ellen Faull. Her former students have won scholarships to The Juilliard School, the New England-Boston Conservatory Opera Theater, Aspen and Tanglewood Summer Music Schools, the Central City Opera Apprentice Program and Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony. BA—English Literature and Philosophy, Mount St. Joseph College, Ohio |
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