Dr. Lisa Fauntleroy Moore, soprano, has performed operatic roles and as a soloist for numerous orchestral works and continues to have an active performing career. She also is an avid educator and joined the Indiana Wesleyan University Music Faculty in 2005. She has directed more than 20 productions of Operas and Musicals. In addition, she teaches applied voice, and other courses offered in the vocal area as well as Music History and Fine Arts. Many of Dr. Moore’s students have advanced to graduate schools, young artists programs, and professional performance careers. Some have won recognition for their singing at NATS Auditions, the Metropolitan Opera Council Awards and other competitions. Dr. Moore is committed to helping a student find techniques and confidence that will allow them to use their voice on the stage, in the classroom, in a therapy session or in a recording studio.
Moore recently completed her term as the National President for the National Opera Association (NOA.org), having previously served as the VP of Conferences, and Host Committee Chair for the 2016 NOA Convention. She continues to serve on the Executive Board for NOA. She also recently served as the President of Indiana NATS and other leadership roles.
A specialist in Shaker music, Moore has presented, published, and given lecture-recitals of Shaker music throughout the US and abroad. She served for several years as the staff soloist at Shakertown, Pleasant Hill, KY where she recorded Shaker music on site, and appeared as guest soloist on two occasions for the Paul Rusch Festival in Kiyosoto, Japan. In addition to Shaker Music, her research interests and presentations have been on Richard Wagner’s Vocal Music and Soprano Duets.
Dr. Moore received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Anderson University, a Master of Music Degree from the University of Kentucky and the Doctor of Arts Degree from Ball State University.
Dr. Tammie Huntington, Soprano, has enjoyed many opera/operetta performances, including the roles of Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone, Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Josephine in Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, and Suor Geovieffa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica. She has also appeared as Guest Soprano Soloist in orchestral productions of Haydn’s Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s Magnificat, Bach’s Cantata No. 51, Mozart’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, and Schubert’s Mass in G Major, No. 2.
Huntington received her Doctor of Arts degree in Voice Performance with an emphasis in opera direction from Ball State University in 2008, where she produced and directed the world premiere of Fifty-Third Street, a new American opera by composer Jody Nagel. Huntington has presented her work on Fifty-Third Street at the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities in 2009; the International Congress of Voice Teachers in Paris, France, in 2009; the National Opera Association Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX in 2011; and at a scenes performance for the NOA Sacred in Opera Session, in Cleveland, OH, in January 2020. Huntington remains an avid proponent of contemporary art music and opera, recently creating the role of “Amanda” in Philip Seward’s A House Divided, an operatic web series, in addition to the “Portraits of Women” project with Soprani Compagni.
Dr. Huntington is a Professor of Music at Indiana Wesleyan University, where she has taught Applied Voice and Lyric Theatre studies since 2007 and directed numerous opera and musical theatre productions. She has a passion for helping her students to develop and shine their own unique light both onstage and off. Her students, both collegiate and private, may be found on national Broadway tours, performing in opera houses and at the Lincoln Center, doing studio work for national companies, recording and touring in contemporary commercial music, teaching music privately and in the classroom, practicing as music therapists, and serving in church music ministry.
Huntington currently serves as President for the Indiana Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and is a previous Editor of the Sacred in Opera Newsletter and former Great Lakes Regional Governor for the National Opera Association.
Pianist Phoenix Park-Kim has given recitals throughout the United States, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Spain and Russia including performances in various music festivals such as the Aspen Summer Music Festival, Piano Texas, the Summer Music School in Siena (Italy), Piano Peabody, and Wiener Meisterkurse in Vienna (Austria). She has won prizes at numerous competitions including first place at the Miami Concerto Competition, Jefferson City Concerto Competition, Kansas City Philharmonic Concerto Competition, and was a finalist at the Liszt-Garrison International Piano Competition and The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award in the Performance of American Music. She appeared as a soloist with the Korean Philharmonic, Kansas City Philharmonia, UMKC, Symphony of the Lake, Fishers Chamber, Atlantida Symphony Orchestra (Spain), and Marion Philharmonic Orchestras among others. An avid chamber musician, she has performed with the Oxford String Quartet, Duo Dolce, Soprani Compagni and appeared at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall as part of the Distinguished Concerts Artist Series.
She is dedicated to providing more exposure to music by African-American composers. In this endeavor, she was awarded the Lilly research grant and also received special congressional recognition. Her CD “Deep River,” and “Summerland” are collections of Classical works by African American composers, were released under the MSR Classics. Her other recordings are also available on most online platforms. She is currently Professor of Music at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana and serves as Artistic Director for the Carmel Klavier International Piano Competition and Festival.