Janet Alcorn

Style: Opera; Classical; Musical Theatre

Title: Associate Professor Emerita, Iowa State University

Bio:

Janet Alcorn earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Music degree in Voice and Voice Therapy from Boston University. She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Studio and the New York City Opera and sang major roles with the opera companies of Cleveland, Dallas, Philadelphia, Frankfurt and Manilla. She appeared as soloist with many symphony orchestras including Philadelphia, Cleveland and Cincinnati. She was on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music for many years, and retired from Iowa State University as Associate Professor of Voice with Emerita status. While in Iowa, she was district director of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. She was on the faculty of the Hartt School of the University of Hartford from 2000 to 2003 and of Birmingham Southern College from 2003 until 2007. She has returned to Iowa State University in 2007 and retired in 2021.

Now retired from singing, her primary interests are vocal health and rehabilitation and musicians' health. She was on the faculty of the McClosky Institute of Voice, where she trained other teachers in vocal health techniques. She is a Licensed Body Mapping Educator and Sponsoring Teacher teaching courses on Body Mapping and giving workshops such as "What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body".

Voice Type: Soprano

Music Styles Taught: Opera; Classical; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am currently accepting private students

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