Dr. Mitra Sadeghpour

Associate Professor of Music

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 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 Workshop Ensemble. She also serves as music director and conductor for theatre area musical productions. In the 2007-2008 academic year, Dr. Sadeghpour will direct Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and music direct "The Threepenny Opera." At UW-Eau Claire, Dr. Sadeghpour has recently stage directed “The Merry Widow” by Franz Lehar, “Scenes by Sondheim,” "Suor Angelica" and "Gianni Schicchi" by Puccini, a children's opera version of "Cinderella" by Rossini, and provided music direction for "Bat Boy: The Musical," "Cabaret" and "Pirates of Penzance." 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 frequent recitalist and concert musician, upcoming performances include the Mozart "Missa Brevis" and Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" with the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra and numerous on-campus performances. Recent performances have included the Bach “B Minor Mass,” Brahms' "Ein Deutsches Requiem," Mozart's "Requiem," Schumann's "Spanisches Liederspiel," 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 performed numerous opera and musical theatre roles, ranging from Frasquita in "Carmen" to Maria in "The Sound of Music" and Lily in "The Secret Garden." Other musical interests include American art song and popular song, and vocal music by women composers. Dr. Sadeghpour frequently works with students on faculty/student collaborative research projects and as a mentor for numerous Blugold Fellows. Recent research projects include a Contemporary American Opera Survey, 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. The latter project has been 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 was 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. A native of Iowa, Sadeghpour previously taught on the voice faculty at Luther College.

Courses:

MUSI 153/353 Applied Voice
MUSI 280/480 Opera/Music Theatre Workshop