Faculty Biography

Ann Marie Wilcox-Daehn, Lecturer


Contact:
(330) 289-2464
annmezzo@aol.com


Departmental Responsibilities:
Applied Voice


Education:
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, MM
Miami University, Oxford Ohio BM


Biography:
Ms. Wilcox-Daehn has a busy career that includes a variety of musical genre including oratorio, opera, art song, and musical theater.  Musical theater portrayals have included: Aldonza in Man of la Mancha, Nettie in Carousel; Gwendolyn in the musical adaptation/play of the Importance of Being Ernest; Meg Brockie in Brigadoon; Mad Margaret in Ruddigore and Petra in Utah Opera’s production of A Little Night Music (which was also part of the 2002 Salt Lake City Cultural Olympiad).

Favorite opera roles include: Carmen, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus; Prince Charming in Cendrillon; Dido in Dido & Aeneus; the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors; Dorabella in Cosí fan tutte; and Isabella in The Italian Girl from Algiers.

Ms. Wilcox-Daehn can be heard on the Albany Record label as Adah in Naughty Marietta, Bertha in The Red Mill, and singing "You’ll Never Walk Alone" on Gold & Silver: Celebrating 25 Years of Ohio Light Opera.  Her concert appearances have included a program of Sondheim and Webber songs for Gulf Coast Symphony, the Mozart Requiem at New Haven Symphony and solos at Carnegie Hall in the Mozart Requiem and Vivaldi’s Gloria.

Ms. Wilcox-Daehn is an active member of the New York Singing Teachers Association (NYSTA), Actors Equity (AEA) and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA).  She holds a Music Education degree from Miami University in Oxford Ohio, a Master’s degree in Voice Performance from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, is certified to teach contemporary commercial music styles through the Somatic Voicework pedagogy institute and is pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at The Eastman School of Music.

Personal web page: www.annmezzo.com