University of Miami Masterclass (1)

Dr. Frank Wayne Ragsdale, Associate Professor of Voice at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami teaches a variety of styles of voice including classical, musical theatre (legit, belt, and mix), pop, rock, and country and has success with them all. Dr. Ragsdale has had a long and varied performing career in opera, oratorio, musicals, plays, and recitals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and Central America. He is on the faculty of the University of Miami Herbert Frost School of Music at Salzburg, and is the Coordinator of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) National Musical Theatre Competition. In 2021 he was a Master Teacher at the NATS Intern Program and in the summer of 2022 he was a presenter at the NATS National Conference in Chicago and the International Congress of Voice Teachers in Vienna.

Mr. Kim Josephson is one of opera's most versatile baritones and has sung with major opera companies around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera where he has performed more than?250 performances of 29 roles including,  the title role in Rigoletto, Germont in La Traviata, and Marcello in La Boheme. He is currently on the faculty at the Frost School of Music and Si parla, si canta! in Arona, Italy.