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Catherine Compton

Operations Manager (IU Opera Theater and Musical Arts Center)
Visiting Lecturer in Music (Voice)

Catherine Compton
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Phone:
812-855-5823 | MAC: 812-856-4531
Email:
cacompto@iu.edu
Department:
Voice
Office:
IU Opera & Ballet Theater / Musical Arts Center
MC426 | MA156

Education

  • M.M., Voice Performance and Pedagogy, University of Colorado Boulder, 2011
  • B.M., Music Education, Iowa State University, 2008

Soprano Catherine Compton is visiting lecturer in music in voice and opera theater at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches applied voice and serves on the production staff of IU Opera Theater. 

Previously, she served on the voice faculty of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), where she taught applied voice, diction, and music entrepreneurship. She directed UTRGV Opera Theater, and her production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld was awarded first place in the 2017 National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Production Competition.

As a Fulbright fellow in Leipzig, Germany, Compton sang with the Leipzig Bach Festival, Mendelssohn Haus Museum, and Gewandhaus zu Leipzig. Recent performances in the U.S. include Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel at Indiana University, the Brahms Requiem with the Truman State Symphony Orchestra, Bach’s Cantata 51 with the Brownsville Chamber Orchestra, and Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Central Iowa Symphony. Operatic roles include Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), and Gretel (Hansel & Gretel), among others.

She is dedicated to researching and performing music by women composers, with special focus on nineteenth-century lieder by women. She was named a 2021 PEO Scholar Award winner in support of her research.

Compton is passionate about helping students develop and maintain fulfilling and sustainable singing practices. She has presented master classes and lectures on vocal health and habilitation, music and gender, and German lieder, among other topics. Additionally, her teaching and approach to music education is enhanced by her work as an arts administrator and producer. She has served as an administrator with organizations including IU Opera and Ballet Theater, UTRGV Patron of the Arts, Off-Broadway School of Fine Arts in Boulder, CU Presents Artist Series, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Music Festival, and Metropolitan Opera Guild. 

Compton was a 2018 NATS Intern with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. 

She has completed coursework for the Doctor of Music in Voice degree at the Jacobs School of Music and holds a certificate in vocology from IU and an M.M. in voice performance and pedagogy from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder. She was a graduate assistant for the Musicians’ Wellness Initiative at CU and has studied Alexander Technique in the U.S. and Germany.

Compton received further vocal training at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig. She has a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from Iowa State University and taught K-12 music in Rosendal, Norway, in partial fulfillment of her teaching license.

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