Scott McCoy, professor of voice and pedagogy at Ohio State University and director of the Helen Swank Voice Teaching and Research Lab, will be a guest artist in the West Virginia University School of Music, March 1-2.

McCoy will present a master class and a pedagogy workshop at the Creative Arts Center during his residency. Both events are free and open to the public.

The Voice Master Class will be held Friday (March 1), from 4 to 6 p.m.
In the Antoinette Falbo Theatre.

The Vocal Pedagogy Workshop will be held Saturday (March 2) from 10 a.m. to noon, in Room 440.

McCoy has been professor of voice and pedagogy, director of the Presser Music Center Voice Laboratory and the director of graduate studies at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. His multimedia voice science and pedagogy textbook “Your Voice, an Inside View” is used extensively by colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad.

He is immediate past president and director of the National Intern Program of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, associate director of the Journal of Singing for voice pedagogy and has also served NATS as vice president for workshops, program chair for 2006 and 2008 national conferences, chair of the Voice Science Advisory Committee and master teacher for the National Intern program.

Deeply committed to teacher education, McCoy is a founding faculty member in the NYSTA Professional Development Program, teaching classes in Voice Anatomy & Physiology and Acoustics & Voice Analysis. He is a member of the distinguished American Academy of Teachers of Singing.

For more information about the recital, contact the College of Creative Arts at 304-293-4359.

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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4359, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu

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