Kathryn Green

Kathryn Green is a professor of voice and the director of the graduate vocal pedagogy program at Shenandoah Conservatory. She has been instrumental in developing the first Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Pedagogy that allows for the inclusion of CCM (non-classical) repertoire within the degree parameters and audition guidelines.  She also initiated the first Master of Music degree in contemporary voice in the United States. For the past 15 years, she has served as the executive director of the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute which serves as the flagship institution for functional evidenced-based training in contemporary vocal genres. Her research on contemporary commercial voice has been published in the Journal of Voice and in the Journal of Singing. Her performing career in the United States includes appearances with the Erie and Buffalo Philharmonics as alto soloist in several oratorio performances. Her operatic and oratorio role have included Carmen (Carmen), Juditha Triumphant (Juditha), Gianni Schicchi (Zita), Seven Deadly Sins (Anna), Madame  Butterfly (Suzuki), Hansel and Gretel (witch) and Suor Angelica (Principessa). She sang in Germany, Austria, France, and Italy as the operatic Diva of a comic show (Panem et Circensus) that toured from 1990-1997. Dr. Green received her DMA in Performance at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music where she researched the Hymnody of the Seneca Native Americans of Western New York, which became her doctoral thesis. She has been a guest clinician throughout the United States and internationally, including the Universität der Künste Berlin, Hochschule der Künste Lübeck in Germany and Sao Paulo University in Brazil.