Dr. Noël Archambeault, soprano, teaches Applied Voice at the University of Delaware. She has previously served on the music faculties of Texas Tech University, Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Mineral Area College, in Park Hills, Missouri. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the University of the Incarnate Word, in San Antonio, TX, a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College of Rider University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University. She has studied voice with such world-renowned teachers as William Warfield, Lindsey Christiansen, Kathy McNeil, Diana Allen and Deborah Bussineau-King. Her vocal pedagogy teachers include Scott McCoy, Marvin Keenze and Sue Arnold, and she has participated in master classes with celebrated vocal pedagogues Robert Sataloff and Thomas Cleveland. In addition, Dr. Archambeault has had the privilege of coaching with luminaries such as Dalton Baldwin, J.J. Penna, John Hollins and William Gokelman.

Dr. Archambeault's performing career has been marked by great vocal and dramatic versatility which has included performances of operatic and concert repertoire from soprano and mezzo soprano literature. Her recent operatic successes include Puccini's Suor Angelica (title role), Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera (Amelia) and Bizet's Carmen (Micaela). However, she has developed a national reputation for her expertise in the areas of vocal jazz, twentieth century experimental vocal music and Spanish art song. She has performed such monumental and representative works by composers such as George Crumb (Ancient Voices of Children and Three Early Songs), John Cage (A Flower and The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs), Edith Boroff (Modern Love), Fernando Obradors, Enrique Granados, Frederico Mompou, Alberto Ginastera (Cinco canciones populares Argentinas) and Joseph Canteloube, whose Chants D'Auvergne she was honored to perform with the Texas Tech University Symphony Orchestra as the winner of the 2005 Concerto Competition. Some of these works provided the inspiration and scholarly material for her Doctoral monograph, "In the Mouth of Madness: Twentieth-Century Vocal Effects, Alternative Voices, and/or Extended Vocal Technique."

During her time at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Mineral Area College, she also served as the Director of Choral Activities, and achieved great success as a conductor, clinician and adjudicator. At Texas A&M University-Kingsville, she directed the University Concert Choir, Canticum filliae (Women's Choir), Jazz Singers and Vox (an elite vocal jazz chamber ensemble). She has taken concert choirs on tours throughout the United States and jazz choirs throughout the United States and to the Netherlands. Her expertise in vocal jazz led to her 2006 publication in the On the Voice section of the ACDA Choral Journal, "Come On-A My House: An Invitation to Vocal Jazz for Classical Singers." She has also been published in the Voice Foundation's Journal of Voice and given presentations for the Voice Foundation, International Association for Jazz Education, and the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities.

Her teaching experiences encompass courses in conducting, diction, choral music methods, music theory, opera and vocal pedagogy. At Texas A&M University-Kingsville, she was nominated by students as Oustanding Educator in the "Most Student Oriented" category as presented by the university's Center for Teaching Effectiveness. She was awarded a grant by the Texas Excellence Fund in 2002 for the establishment of the first Voice Research Laboratory in South Texas. Each year her students have been highly successful at regional NATS competitions and several of her conducting students have had the honor of being chosen as Student Guest Conductors at the Texas Choral Directors Association Convention.

Currently, Dr. Archambeault is a soloist and section leader at historic Westminster Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware, where she works under the direction of organist Paul Fleckenstein. As a chorister, she has performed major works with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New Jersey Symphony under the direction of conductors such as Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Zdenek Macal.