VOICE > FACULTY

Marlena Kleinman Malas
Voice Chair Faculty, Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School and The Curtis Inst. of Music; performed with opera companies of New York City, Santa Fe, Boston, Miami, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, San Diego and Milwaukee; soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and New York Philharmonic.
Spiro Malas
Private Instruction Operatic appearances including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company; title role in Broadway revival of “Most Happy Fella”; faculty, Manhattan School of Music.
Donald St. Pierre
Faculty, The Curtis Inst. of Music. Former music director, Skylight Opera Theatre; former keyboardist, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; appeared at New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall and Almeida Theatre.
Michael Dean
Faculty, UCLA; former faculty, New England Conservatory. Performed with opera companies of New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, Berlin, Kansas City, Strasbourg, Antwerp, Arizona, Glimmerglass, Pittsburgh. Concert soloist with New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic; the symphonies of Houston, Pittsburgh, Arizona, Toronto, Singapore; Boston Baroque, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; featured at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Live from Lincoln Center. Numerous acclaimed recordings of Baroque opera including Agrippina, Serse, Ottone, Radamisto, and Dido and Aeneas.
Maria Fortuna Dean
Faculty, California Institute of the Arts; former faculty, Carnegie Mellon University, SUNY Fredonia; performed with opera companies of San Francisco, New York City, Dallas, Miami, Washington D.C., Seattle, Wales, Bordeaux, Catania. Appeared with conductors including Riccardo Muti, Carlo Rizzi, Roger Norrington, and Patrick Summers. Concert soloist with San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Carnegie Hall, Live From Lincoln Center.