BRUCE KOLB - TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Voice Teacher and Choral Director, Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
(Assistant Professor) Responsibilities included private lessons for under-graduate, graduate, and doctoral voice majors and conducting the Concert Choir (Select choir representing the Mason Gross School of the Arts),University Chorus (Community) and the Rutgers Men's Glee Club.

Music Director and Composer, American Globe Theater, New York, NY.
(Musical direction of productions/composing new songs, dances, incidental music)

Voice Teacher, Boston Conservatory of Music
(Private lessons and supervision for graduate and undergraduate opera majors, voice majors, music theater majors, faculty recitals, graduate exam committees)

Voice Teacher (Assistant Professor), Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ
(Private lessons for graduate and undergraduate voice majors, class voice, faculty solo and ensemble recitals, and graduate exam committees)

Head Voice Teacher  and Choral Conductor (Assistant Professor), Central College, Pella, Iowa, a four-year liberal arts college
(Private voice lessons to voice majors; Courses in Art Song Literature, Vocal Pedagogy, and Diction; and Conductor of the following:  Central College Concert Choir (80 voices): Three concerts per year of A Cappella Music and Major Works with Orchestra; Central College Chamber Singers (20 voices): Three concerts annually with emphasis on Early Music and Music of the Twentieth Century

Graduate Teaching Assistantship
Assistant Conductor of Louisiana State University A Cappella Choir, Dallas Draper, Founder and Conductor

 

Theater an der Wien - Vienna, Austria - Vocal Technique for cast of "Mozart" and private lessons
University of Miami, Florida  -  "Vocal Technique for the Singer/Actor"
University of the Arts - Philadelphia, PA - "Singing Technique for the Musical Theater" and "Musical/Dramatic Preparation for the Singer/Actor"
Boston Chapter of NATS - "Registration and Acoustics of the Singing Voice"     
Rhode Island Chapter of National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), "Teaching the Musical Theater Voice"
Voice and Performance Seminar - Marywood College, Scranton, PA
Voice Faculty - Oren Brown Voice Seminar, Zuoz, Switzerland and Amherst, MA, Master classes and private lessons in vocal technique and performance
Voice Faculty - Westminster Summer Session Festival, Princeton, NJ, High School Vocal Camp         
Little Theater of Monroe, LA - "Musical-Dramatic Preparation for the Singer-Actor"
Samford University, Birmingham, AL - Master Classes in Vocal Technique and Performance
University of Louisiana-Monroe - Master Classes in Vocal Technique and Performance
New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts-Master Classes in Vocal Technique & Performance
Louisiana State University - Cultivated and Vernacular Singing Styles on Broadway
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) - Miami, Florida; National Panelist/Teacher
Charles Wesley Heritage Society, Bristol, England - Guest Conductor of "God of Unexampled Grace," composed by myself with Ken Clifton and commissioned by the Charles Wesley Heritage Society
The Dartmouth College Glee Club,  Guest Conductor - "Hopkins Center 25th Anniversary Concert"
The Master Singers, Cambridge, MA, - Guest Conductor -  "The Spanish Heritage"

New York, NY and Boston, MA

Professional singers in opera, concert, and Broadway - nationally and internationally