Nancy Harris

Vocologist, voice teacher, coach, and mentor Nancy E. Harris was trained in voice by Dr Barbara Doscher, Dr Meribeth Bunch Dayme, Vera Scammon, and Robert Lansing, and in Vocology by Dr Doscher and the National Center for Voice and Speech. In addition to her undergraduate degree in Vocal Music Education & Studio Voice, she has a Master’s degree in Humanities, certification in Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy, and certification in CoreSinging.

A private music teacher since 1974, she is also a retired college professor (more below). The Denver Performing Arts Center hired her to present multiple voice workshops, and she has presented for both the Colorado State Music Teachers Association Conferences and the Arizona State Music Teachers Association Conferences and chapters. In June 2018 she was asked to sing for the ASMTA Banquet in Russian for the Russian guest performers. 

In her performance experience, Nancy has sung and acted leads in over 40 musicals, plays, and operas; directed melodramas; was the director of Opera and Beyond; was cast twice as a principal at West Bay Opera in San Francisco; has been a principal in the Loveland Opera Theatre and Opera Colorado Ensemble; sang in the Schola Cantorum chorale in California, Cherry Creek Chorale in Colorado, Colorado Opera Company ensemble, and the London Symphony's chorus under Sir Malcolm Sergeant. She was also the mezzo soloist for the West Coast Premiere of "Solomon’s Gardens" at Stanford University. She has two jazz albums recorded: "Nance Sings Love", and "With All My Heart, Nance", and is working on a third; is Marmee on the original cast album of the Stevens "Little Women: The Musical"; is on several storytelling albums; and created "One Misty Moisty Morning--Vol 1 & 2" with Brad Bowles, a music, story, and poetry anthology for children.

In related experiences, she has done professional voice-overs; was a voice actor and puppeteer for the Elton Norwood Puppet Theatre in Denver; was the producer and announcer of "Venture Into Music" (an exploration of popular music that was derived from classical music) on WUSF-FM, in Florida, as well as being their music librarian; and was a sound engineer for WUSF-TV.

In other work, Nancy has been a professional book and newsletter editor and a college professor (Music Appreciation, Humanities, Art History, Western Civilization, Movement and Acting for the Animator, Speech, Communications, all levels of English, Sociology, Math, Computer Science & Research Methods, Management & Supervision, Job Preparation, Career Development, and Master Student). She currently tutors online in those areas, as well as in voice. And, finally, in addition to dancing most of her life, Nancy taught yoga for ten years, and incorporates her body knowledge into her vocal pedagogy.