In addition to her duties as Coordinator of Voice Performance Studies, Professor Hoffman teaches several music courses, including MUS 399/499: Voice Performance Studies (see below for instructions on enrolling!), MUS 408: Diction & Literature for Singers (next offered Fall 2003: English & German), MUS 205: Music, Instruments & Technology. Fall semester, Prof. Hoffman directs MUS 390: Opera Workshop and Winter semester she directs MUS 390: Celebration Vocal Transit. Prof. Hoffman is vocal director for the Winter 2002 UD Musical Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
1. Enroll at the credit hour level of your choice: MUS 399.05 = 2 cr. hrs. /fourteen 45-minute lessons (4 memorized songs & jury required); fee MUS 399.06 = 1 cr. hrs. /fourteen 30-minute lessons (2 memorized songs required, no jury); fee
2. Schedule a placement audition to be held during the first days of each semester: The schedule is posted outside of Prof. HoffmanÕs office, M/T 102. Also, fill out a New Voice Student Information form, available there as well. If no forms are available, let Prof. Hoffman know and she will provide you with one.
3. Audition with a song of your choice (from memory if possible) that shows your best, most comfortable, expressive singing. Also, be prepared to demonstrate your vocal range. If you do not have a prepared piece, Prof. Hoffman will ask you to sing something familiar such as Happy Birthday, Amazing Grace or The Star-Spangled Banner. The purpose of the placement audition is to assist in properly assigning each student to a voice instructor.
4. Come back by M/T 102 to check for the student/instructor assignment posting, usually within one or two days after the last day of auditions. Contact your assigned instructor to schedule lessons; lessons should begin as soon as possible thereafter.
Lee Hoffman, lyric soprano, is Visiting Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Voice Performance Studies at the University of Dayton. Ms Hoffman comes to the University of Dayton having served as a member of the voice faculty at Northern Kentucky University where she taught Applied Voice, Group Voice, Aural Skills and Music Appreciation from 1995 to 2000. Since 1988, Lee has equally enjoyed working with voice majors and musical theater majors, members of fine community ensembles such as Cincinnati's Vocal Arts Ensemble and May Festival Chorus and professional jazz and contemporary Christian music performers.
A versatile performer, Lee Hoffman has been featured soloist in such concerts as Handel's Psalm 112 at the Music in the Mountains festival in Northern California's Nevada City, Poulenc's Gloria with the St. Louis Camerata Singers and Orff's Carmina Burana with singers from the May Festival Chorus at St. John's Unitarian Church in Cincinnati. Her recital appearances include the Melodie of Faure at the Institute for Advanced Vocal Studies in Paris, France, early music recitals in St. Louis, including motets and cantatas by composers such as Monteverdi and Zipoli and art song by composers such as Schubert, Zemlinsky and Ravel at Ravinia's Steans Institute for Young Artists in Chicago. Ms Hoffman's original voice and piano music is available on CD, entitled From The Soul (available for purchase by contacting her), and she frequently performs her original music regionally and nationally.
A vocal clinician, guest choral director, and pianist for numerous churches, Ms Hoffman is soprano soloist at Seventh Presbyterian in Cincinnati. A member of NATS since 1989, Lee Hoffman has nearly completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, holds a Master of Music degree from Webster University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Music degree from California State University, Sacramento.