Faculty and Staff

Associate Professor of Music
Coordinator of the Voice Division

D.M., Indiana University School of Music
M.M., Indiana University School of Music
B.A., Luther College, Decorah, Iowa

Academic Areas: applied voice, opera literature, opera workshop, opera production.

Dr. Mitra Sadeghpour
255 Haas Fine Arts Center
Music & Theatre Arts Department
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004

Phone: 715/836-3711
Email: msadeghp@uwec.edu

Dr. Mitra Sadeghpour, soprano, is an Associate Professor of Music and Theatre Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where she teaches Applied Voice and is the Director of the Opera Program. She also serves as coordinator of the voice and choral area and music director/conductor for theatre area musical productions. In the 2009-2010 academic year, Dr. Sadeghpour will direct a Bel Canto scenes recital in the fall and music direct “Grey Gardens.” Dr. Sadeghpour has recently stage directed “Albert Herring” by Benjamin Britten, Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," “The Merry Widow” by Franz Lehar, "Suor Angelica" and "Gianni Schicchi" by Puccini, a children's Opera on Wheels production of  "Cinderella" by Rossini, numerous scene recitals, and provided music direction for "The Threepenny Opera," "Bat Boy: The Musical," "Cabaret" and "Pirates of Penzance."

A frequent recitalist and concert musician, in 2009-2010 Dr. Sadeghpour will be the soloist in Chausson’s “Chanson perpétuelle” with the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra and the Duruflé “Requiem” at UW-Eau Claire and will perform in numerous recitals throughout the region.  Recent engagements include the Mozart "Missa Brevis" and Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" with the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra, Fauré’s “Requiem,” “Elijah” by Mendelssohn, the Bach “B Minor Mass,” Brahms' "Ein Deutsches Requiem," Mozart's "Requiem," Schumann's "Spanisches Liederspiel," a recital of popular songs from the 1930s, the world premiere of David A. Baker's "Chamber Symphony," and concerts with UW-Eau Claire's award-winning Jazz Ensemble I. Dr. Sadeghpour has also sung numerous opera and musical theatre roles, ranging from Frasquita in "Carmen" to Maria in "The Sound of Music" and the Narrator in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”

Dr. Sadeghpour is an active researcher and she frequently works with students on award-winning faculty/student collaborative research projects and as a mentor for Blugold and McNair Fellows. Currently she is collaborating with three students on a project entitled “Diversity in the Voice Studio” in which the research team is creating a repertoire source to help voice teachers locate and utilize diverse American art song in their teaching.  Recent research projects have examined the mezzo-soprano as leading man (the history of pants roles), creating opera opportunities for high school students, the original stagings of Mozart’s operas, the role of dance in opera (presented at the National Opera Association convention in 2009), Contemporary American Opera Survey (presented at NOA in 2008), a semi-staged version of Libby Larsen's song cycle "Try Me Good King," a scholarship of teaching and learning project on student practice habits, and creating a learner-centered environment in opera workshop (presented at NOA in 2007). The latter project was also presented at the 2006 NATS convention and the 2006 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference in Washington, D.C. She was also the 2006-2007 Teaching Fellow for the UW-Eau Claire campus. In May and June of 2005, Dr. Sadeghpour served as a guest lecturer at University College Winchester, in Winchester, Great Britain where she presented a lecture-recital on "American Masters of Popular Song." She also participated in the opera training program, OperaWorks, under artistic director Ann Baltz in 2007.  Her students have received awards at competitions including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, NATS, and the Schubert Club, and have been accepted for summer young artist programs, internships, and graduate school.

Dr. Sadeghpour holds degrees from Luther College and Indiana University, where she was a voice student of Patricia Havranek and studied directing with Vincent Liotta.  At Indiana University, she conducted extensive research on the English songs of Charles Gounod, the subject of her doctoral document as well as several lecture-recitals and presentations.   A native of Iowa, Sadeghpour previously taught on the voice faculty at Luther College.

Related Links
Opera Workshop Ensemble
Downloadable Print Quality Photo of Mitra Sadeghpour