Careers
The voice area at The University of Alabama School of Music has an enviable record of preparing students for careers as performers and educators. Below is a partial list of institutions, summer festivals and arts organizations that have employed our current and former students (updated summer 2023).
- Alabama OperaWorks
- Alabama Symphony
- Amherst Early Music Festival
- Aquilon Music Festival
- Ashlawn Opera
- Atlanta Opera
- Baltimore Opera
- Berlin Opera Academy
- Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre
- Center City Opera Theatre, Philadelphia
- Colorado Arts Symposium
- Glimmerglass Opera
- Gulf Coast Opera Theatre, Mississippi
- Harrower Summer Opera Workshop
- Mississippi University for Women
- Natchez Opera Festival
- Opera Birmingham
- Opera North
- Opera in the Ozarks
- Opera Saratoga
- Opera Steamboat
- Pacific Opera Projects
- Red River Lyric Opera
- Sugar Creek Symphony and Song
- Tabor College
- Tri-Cities Opera
- Vancouver Early Music Festival
- Utah Festival Opera
Academic Job Placement
The UA Voice department has an outstanding track record of placing recent graduates, as well as current DMA students, in teaching positions in the region and beyond. Current students gain valuable teaching experience while finishing their degree requirements. Degree candidates and very recent graduates are holding, or have held, adjunct and/or tenure-track positions at:
- Baldwin-Wallace College
- Baylor University
- Birmingham-Southern College
- Clark-Atlanta University
- Clayton State University
- Mars Hill University
- McNeese State University
- Mississippi State University
- Samford University
- Stillman College, Tuscaloosa
- Tabor College, Kansas
- Troy University
- University of Kentucky
- University of West Georgia
- University of Montevallo
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- UA Department of Theatre & Dance
Advanced Studies
Many of our former students have been accepted into prestigious graduate schools. Below is a sample list of those schools:
- Baylor University
- Cleveland Institute of Music
- Florida State University
- Juilliard School of Music
- Boston Conservatory
- DePaul University
- Louisiana State University
- Manhattan School of Music
- New England Conservatory
- Peabody Conservatory
- San Francisco Conservatory
- Longy School of Music
- Shenandoah Conservatory
- East Carolina University
- Texas Tech University
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- University of Houston
- University of Maryland
- University of Memphis
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Texas-Austin