Biography of a Teacher
teaching my opera class at the University of Oregon
Nicholas Isherwood studied with Richard Miller at the Oberlin Conservatory and College (B.M., B.A.) and privately in Italy (with Sara Sforni Corti and Roberto Benaglio). He completed a DEA in musicology with a thesis on the vocal vibrato at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, together with the Ecole Normale Supérieure and IRCAM under the direction of Hugues Dufourt and Doctor Marc Yana.
Isherwood has taught master classes for over thirty years. This has brought him to the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Xenakis summer courses in Paris, the Abbaye de Royaumont, Ars Musica in Brussels, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, the Reims Conservatory, IRCAM, the CCMIX, the Paris Conservatoire, Cal State L.A., the ARIAM Ile de France (two courses), the University of Washington, Cal State San Francisco, the Cologne Conservatory (summer program in Montepulciano), Calarts, the ARIAM Ile de France, Pont Levoy, the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milano, the Institute for the Living Voice (Berlin), the Troyes Conservatory, UNAM and CENART in Mexico City, the Gallarate Conservatory, the Normal University in Taiwan, the conservatory of Morelia (Mexico), the Wellington University (New Zealand), the summer academy in Cortanze, Italy (with Mirella Freni), numerous appearances at the Stockhausenkurse in Kürten, Germany, USC, Stanford, the UdK in Berlin, .
He has lectured at the Hôpital Foch in Paris, Cal State Riverside, Cal State Fullerton, SUNY at Buffalo, the Leipzig University, the Freie Universität in Berlin, the Normal University in Taiwan, Stanford University, UCSB, IRCAM, Penn , Franco Fussi's "La Voce Artistica" and university program in Ravenna, the University of Toronto and Harvard.
Isherwood has been professor of voice and opera at SUNY at Buffalo, Notre Dame, Calarts, the University of Oregon, the Ecole Normale de Musique, the CNSMD in Lyon and the UdK in Berlin (Lehrauftrag). He is currently professor of voice at the Montbéliard Conservatory.
He has published peer reviewed articles in the Journal of the Scelsi Foundation, the Journal of Singing, LIM, Vox Humana and Brepols and his book The Techniques of Singing was published by Bärenreiter Verlag in 2013. A new franco/italian edition will be published at the end of 2021 by ELARA.
http://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Singing-English-German-Edition/dp/3761818610
http://www.elaralibri.it
Isherwood has taught master classes for over thirty years. This has brought him to the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Xenakis summer courses in Paris, the Abbaye de Royaumont, Ars Musica in Brussels, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, the Reims Conservatory, IRCAM, the CCMIX, the Paris Conservatoire, Cal State L.A., the ARIAM Ile de France (two courses), the University of Washington, Cal State San Francisco, the Cologne Conservatory (summer program in Montepulciano), Calarts, the ARIAM Ile de France, Pont Levoy, the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milano, the Institute for the Living Voice (Berlin), the Troyes Conservatory, UNAM and CENART in Mexico City, the Gallarate Conservatory, the Normal University in Taiwan, the conservatory of Morelia (Mexico), the Wellington University (New Zealand), the summer academy in Cortanze, Italy (with Mirella Freni), numerous appearances at the Stockhausenkurse in Kürten, Germany, USC, Stanford, the UdK in Berlin, .
He has lectured at the Hôpital Foch in Paris, Cal State Riverside, Cal State Fullerton, SUNY at Buffalo, the Leipzig University, the Freie Universität in Berlin, the Normal University in Taiwan, Stanford University, UCSB, IRCAM, Penn , Franco Fussi's "La Voce Artistica" and university program in Ravenna, the University of Toronto and Harvard.
Isherwood has been professor of voice and opera at SUNY at Buffalo, Notre Dame, Calarts, the University of Oregon, the Ecole Normale de Musique, the CNSMD in Lyon and the UdK in Berlin (Lehrauftrag). He is currently professor of voice at the Montbéliard Conservatory.
He has published peer reviewed articles in the Journal of the Scelsi Foundation, the Journal of Singing, LIM, Vox Humana and Brepols and his book The Techniques of Singing was published by Bärenreiter Verlag in 2013. A new franco/italian edition will be published at the end of 2021 by ELARA.
http://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Singing-English-German-Edition/dp/3761818610
http://www.elaralibri.it