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Cynthia Vaughn
Voice, Freshman Voice Studio
(970) 491-3184 | cynthia.vaughn@colostate.edu
Soprano, Cynthia Vaughn is nationally and internationally respected as a performer, teacher, and author. She has performed more than 30 leading roles in opera, operetta, and musical theater in Colorado, Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York state. She regularly performs as a soloist with choruses and orchestras in oratorio and concert works such as Mozart's Requiem and Coronation Mass, Haydn's The Creation, and Handel's Messiah.
She is also a frequent collaborator with composers and has performed regional and world premieres of songs by Robert Nelson, Rodger Vaughan, David King, and Davide Zannoni. Works in progress include a comic song cycle by Lori Laitman, and a song cycle by David Wohl set to the poetry of Colorado poet laureate Mary Crow. Cynthia performed Libby Larsen's " This Unbearable Stillness: Songs from the Balcony" for soprano and string quartet for the 2007 Rocky Mountain Contemporary Music Festival. Other recent performances include Lori Laitman's "Living in the Body" , a setting of Joyce Sutphen's poetry (for saxophone and soprano) and "Round and Round" with poetry by Anne Spencer Lindbergh. She has recorded for Hope and Lillenas Publishers, and recorded selections from Michael Pickering's Pinocchio. Current projects include "....and Soprano", an album of works for soprano and solo instruments, including marimba, flute, clarinet, harp, violin and tuba!
Cynthia Vaughn and Meribeth (Bunch) Dayme co-authored THE SINGING BOOK, a leading text/song anthology/ CD for class voice and beginning-intermediate voice study. The second edition was released internationally in 2008. (W. W. Norton & Co, NY/London). Cynthia has also written and edited more than 40 articles for Classical Singer Magazine. She wrote the Currents column for the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) newsletter. She is the Vocal Literature Coordinator and Publisher's Liaison for the prestigious NATS Summer Intern Program, where since 2005 she has presented song literature sessions for voice teacher interns and well-known master teachers. Cynthia has presented interactive workshops, song literature sessions and vocal masterclasses for NATS regional, state, and local chapters (Seattle, Wichita); varous universities (U of Puget Sound, Capital University, U of Northern Colo); College Music Society; International Congress of Voice Teachers (Vancouver, BC), Colorado State Music Educators Conference, Colorado State Music Teachers Assn, and Classical Singer Convention. (Philadelphia, Connecticut, NY) Cynthia is a frequent adjudicator for high school and university vocal competitions.
July 2008 Cynthia Vaughn returns to Urbino, Italy as faculty/artist for ArtConnectsInternational. Previously, in Urbino, she taught voice master classes for I Corsi Internazionali di Musica and performed with founding piano faculty Renato Premezzi and Michael Baron. Cynthia helps students gain technical skill and become more confident and expressive performers. She has compassion and a joy for teaching that encompasses singers at all levels and ages. Her students include graduate and undergraduate voice majors, professional singer/actors, music educators, church and community singers.
Cynthia joined the voice faculty of Colorado State University in 2001. She taught previously at Cedarville University in Ohio, and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. Cynthia Vaughn earned a Masters degree in Vocal Performance from San Jose State University in 1983. She completed doctoral coursework at U of Northern Colorado and received Level Two certification in Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy at Shenandoah University. She holds a Bachelor degree in Vocal Performance from California State University -Hayward (East Bay).