PIANO/GUEST MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Dale Morehouse

DALE MOREHOUSE came to UMKC as Associate Professor of Voice and Opera in 2005, having previously taught at Southern Methodist University, University of Mississippi, and Texas Wesleyan University. Active as a singer and stage director, he has sung 80 leading baritone roles in opera, operetta, and musical theatre; performed recitals, concerts, and oratorios with orchestras, choruses, and ballet companies; and directed over 50 stage productions and 35 different scenes programs for theaters, universities, and opera companies throughout the USA and Europe. In summers, he coordinates the Art of Song vocal program at Italy’s Orvieto Musica chamber music festival, teaches at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, and performs as bass soloist at the International Haydn Festival with the Einstaedler Sommerakademie in Eisenstadt, Austria. During the 2006-7 academic year, he sang Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Colorado’s Longmont Symphony (under the baton of Robert Olson), the Florida premiere of Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light with Florida’s Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, Mozart’s Requiem with California’s Claremont Colleges, Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols at University of Central Missouri along with his A Sea Symphony at UMKC, La traviata and a concert with Wichita Grand Opera, songs of Kurt Weill at the National Opera Association’s national convention in New York City, a recital at Pennsylvania’s West Chester University, and new American art songs on a shared recital for the Kansas City chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. During the 2006–07 school year, he also directed the national premieres of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi at Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk State Opera; Verdi’s La traviata for Wichita Grand Opera, and Floyd’s Susannah at UMKC, as well as collaborating in directing a joint production of Puccini’s Tosca that starred Samuel Ramey with Wichita Grand Opera and the Bulgarian State Opera. He spent the summer of 2007 in Europe, singing Barber’s Dover Beach with the Cassat Quartet at Italy’s Orvieto Musica, Haydn’s Creation at the Esterhazy Palace (in the concert hall where Haydn worked for 33 years), Haydn’s Harmoniemesse at Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral and Eisenstadt’s Bergkirche (where Haydn conducted the first performances of his last six masses and where he is now buried) and Liszt’s Petrarch Sonnets at the new concert hall at Liszt’s birth house in Raiding, Austria (formerly Hungary).