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​Deborah Mayer

 Soprano​

While Ms. Mayer still enjoys an active performing career as an operatic soprano, she has also trained in Contemporary Commercial Music, completing certification in all three levels of  Somatic Voicework ™ the LoVetri Method, and enjoys teaching many musical styles. Her students are classical singers, country, jazz, and musical theater performers ranging in levels from beginners to accomplished professionals.

With a solid foundation in core vocal pedagogy, she has specialized knowledge of the stylistic demands of each genre, and understands what skills are needed to become an effective singer and actor in the performing arts. She continues to mentor her more advanced and former students by connecting them with her international network of trusted experts in the performing arts industry. Some of Ms. Mayer’s  students have appeared on The Jimmy Fallon Show, in concert with Patti Lupone, Christine Chenoweth, and Todd Rundgren, in national tours such as The Lion King,Beautiful – The CarolKing Musical, In the Heights, and Girl from the North Country. Her singer/songwriter's music has been featured on Showtime, Lifetime, Disney Plus, and Hippies and Cowboys Podcast and Old Soul Radio Show.  Her classical voice students have won numerous college music scholarships, including the American Spiritual Collegiate Solo Voice Competition, the Classical Singers Magazine Competition, the Kalamazoo Bach Festival’s Young Vocalist Competition, and have been finalists in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards.

In addition to her private studio, Ms. Mayer recently served as Visiting Professor of Voice at Purdue University Fort Wayne School of Music, where she was the director the Opera Ensemble, and directed their production of Hansel and Gretel, and was Lecturer in Voice at Central Michigan University.  Other faculty positions include teaching at Goshen College, Southwestern Michigan College, Bethel University, The Raclin School of the Arts at Indiana University South Bend, and the University of Notre Dame, where she has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor since 2006.  She has worked extensively with Notre Dame’s Department of Film, Television and Theater as vocal coach for their musicals Spring Awakenings, Cyrano, and A Dawn's Early Light, and was the Vocal Director for A Chorus Line. For Opera Notre Dame, she has served as vocal coach for Candide,Sweeney Todd, The Magic Flute, and As You Like It. She has conducted master classes for the Opera Academy at the Eugene Opera, the Young Artist Program at Opera Steamboat, New World School of the Arts,  numerous area high schools, and served on auditions committees for Classical Singer Music Vocal Competition, Kalamazoo Bach Festival’s Young Vocalists Competition, as well as for the Ezio Pinza Foundation for American Singers of Opera.