Theodore Sipes: voice

Theodore Sipes, baritone, is newly appointed Assistant Professor of Voice at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal performance from the University of Michigan School of Music in 2004 where he studied with Freda Herseth. He has also worked with Leslie Guinn, Martin Katz, Robert Spillman, Gustav Meier, Edward Berkley, Jay Lessinger and Edward Parmentier.

Dr. Sipes’ operatic experience includes productions of La Cenerentola, The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors, L’incoronazione di Poppea, The Tender Land, and Die Zauberflöte. While teaching in Idaho he was involved in the Palouse Opera Project, taking an opera about the adventures of Lewis and Clark to elementary school children in Idaho and Washington. In oratorio he has been heard as baritone soloist in The Creation, Messiah, Fauré Requiem, The St. Matthew Passion and Schubert Mass in G. He has appeared recently with the Bay Chorale and the Saginaw Valley State University Choir and Orchestra and also with the New River Valley Symphony Orchestra and Virginia Tech Choirs and the Blacksburg Master Chorale and Orchestra. He has given recitals in Virginia, Washington, Idaho, Kansas, New York, San Francisco and Michigan, and has participated in the Ann Arbor Festival of Song.

For the past two years Dr. Sipes has been a Visiting Lecturer in Music at the University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton School of Music, where he taught applied voice, vocal literature, operatic literature and lyric diction. Dr. Sipes has also taught at Central College of Kansas, Concordia University-Ann Arbor and Spring Arbor University. Before beginning his academic career Dr. Sipes was a church music director in churches in Kansas and Rochester, New York.

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