Melanie Dement
Associate Professor, Voice
University of Delaware
325 Amy E. du Pont Music Building
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
​Melanie DeMent, soprano, is originally from Texas, where she
received Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Arts in Vocal
Performance degrees from Sam Houston State University, as a student of
Walter Foster, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from
the University of North Texas, as a student of the Edward Baird. Dr.
DeMent is proud to acknowledge that her students have won many notable
awards for their fine artistic and technical performances, including
several national winners of the Music Teachers National Association
competitions, winners of the Austrian American Auditions, the National
Association of Teachers of Singing and the Bach Aria Group. Many of her
students have continued their graduate studies at prestigious schools
and conservatories.
Dr. DeMent moved to Delaware from
Philadelphia, where she was best known to audiences for her performances
of Renaissance and Baroque music. She has been an acclaimed soloist
with such ensembles as Pan's Fancy, Brandywine Baroque, the Philadelphia
Renaissance Wind Band and Concerto Barocco, and is the featured soloist
on the Brandywine Baroque CD Digging for Gold.
A past winner of
the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, Dr. DeMent has been the
soloist for the Houston Ballet and Orchestra, the Michiana New Music
Ensemble, the Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale and the Canadian
Wilfrid Laurier Chamber Orchestra. In addition to early music, she has
an interest in the research and performance of obscure vocal repertoire,
especially that of women composers.
Dr. DeMent belongs to the
Voice Foundation in Philadelphia, an international organization of
physicians, voice scientists and teachers dedicated to the diagnosis and
treatment of career voice users and the continued education of the
professionals that serve them. She has served as state president of the
Delaware State Music Teachers Association and both state governor and
eastern regional governor of the National Association of Teachers of
Singing. After serving on the editorial board of the Music Teachers
National Association journal,American Music Teacher, she now
reviews vocal books on pedagogy and performance, as well as biographies
and new editions of vocal music. In addition to teaching vocal pedagogy
at the University, her other pedagogical interests include treatments in
vocal fold injury therapy and age-related problems in singers.
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