Choral and Vocal Faculty
Dr. Monty Barnard
Voice Instructor
605.274.5455
monty.barnard@augie.edu
Dr. Monty Barnard recently retired as a full-time professor of music after 39 years at Augustana. He continues to teach applied voice for the department. His solo roles in several oratorios and operas include Messiah, Elijah, Bach Christmas Oratorio, Mozart Requiem, Brahms Requiem, Fauré Requiem, Puccini Madame Butterfly, Puccini La Bohême, and Verdi La Traviata. He has performed numerous faculty recitals, a Carnegie Recital Hall debut recital, and was a touring artist with the Goldovsky Opera Theatre. He serves as director of music and baritone soloist at Calvary Cathedral (Episcopal) and Mt. Zion Synagogue, Sioux Falls.
Jeanne Carter
Voice Instructor
605.274.5456
jmtcarter@sio.midco.net
Jeanne M. Carter is a voice instructor at Augustana College, and she is also director of music and fine arts at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. Nationally certified in piano, she holds membership in Music Teacher National Association, American Choral Directors Association, American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, Choristers Guild, and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. She is one of the founders of the Sioux Falls Girls’ Chorale, where she is co-director of the Con Brio choir. She also is the founder and director of the adult community choir Prairie Song. She has a bachelor of arts degree from St. Olaf College, an MAT from Mankato State University and a master of music in vocal performance degree from the University of South Dakota.
Dr. Lisa Grevlos
Director of Vocal Studies and Opera Theatre/Voice Instructor/Vocal Music Education/Choral Conductor
605.274.5457
lisa.grevlos@augie.edu
Dr. Lisa Grevlos is associate professor of music and Director of Vocal Studies at Augustana College. She directs the Augustana Opera Workshop Theatre program, conducts the Augustana Women’s Choir –Angelus, and teaches in the areas of applied voice, vocal pedagogy, singer’s diction, and choral music education. Dr. Grevlos performs frequently as a soloist in the region for recitals, operas, oratorios, and musical theatre. She has been a guest soloist with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra in “A Night at the Opera” and the Brahms Requiem and was the featured soprano vocalist with the Sioux Falls Municipal Band for fifteen years. Recent engagements have included a faculty recital featuring original compositions of Augustana College composers, various roles in Sounds of South Dakota, Inc. productions - most recently as Gretal in Englebert Humperdinck's opera "Hansel and Gretel", soprano soloist in the Augustana Orchestra's production of Faure’s Pelléas and Mélisande, and soprano soloist in the Swiss Chorale Society’s performance of Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. She has been a regional finalist and scholarship recipient in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions and was a semi-finalist in the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Auditions.
Along with her duties at Augustana College, she is president of Sounds of South Dakota, Inc. a non-profit organization whose mission is to connect South Dakota professional vocal artists in opera, recital, and musical theatre performance with regional audiences. In September 2012, she will serve as stage director for the Sounds of South Dakota, Inc. production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" starring internationally acclaimed bass-baritone, Samuel Ramey, accompanied by the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Delta David Gier in the Mary Sommervold Hall of the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science. Dr. Grevlos also serves as a frequent adjudicator and clinician throughout the Midwest. She is a member of MTNA and ACDA and is the High School and Collegiate Vocal Competition Chair for SDMTA and the soprano adjudicator for SD-ACDA Honor Choir. She received the doctor of arts degree in voice performance and opera stage directing from the University of Northern Colorado. She holds master of music degrees from Northwestern University, Evanston, in voice performance and choral conducting, and she completed her undergraduate degree in music education at Augustana College.
Cheryl Koch
Voice Instructor
605.274.5475
cherylpkoch@gmail.com
Cheryl Koch is an applied voice instructor. Prior to teaching at Augustana, she conducted the Sullivan County Community Chorus in New York and the MCC Singers in Miles City, Montana. She served as choir director at the Grahamsville United Methodist Church in New York and as interim director of music at First Presbyterian Church in Sioux Falls. She is active in the Music Teachers National Association and is a past president of the SD Music Teachers Association and Sounds of South Dakota. She served as Division Chair for the Junior Level of MTNA competitions, where she organized the competitors from eight states. Her performing credits include leading roles in musicals: Anything Goes; Kiss Me, Kate; Camelot; Hello, Dolly!; Man of La Mancha, and in opera: Carmen and The Devil and Daniel Webster. She holds bachelor’s degrees in piano performance and vocal music education and a master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of South Dakota.
Emily Lodine
Voice Instructor
605.274.5456
garyandem@myclearwave.net
Emily Lodine, mezzo soprano, has performed with many of the world’s finest conductors, including James Levine, Hugh Wolff, Paul Hillier, Nicholas McGegan, Leonard Slatkin, Jane Glover, and Bernard Labadie. She has appeared with the symphonies of Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Indianapolis and the Pacific Symphony, as well as the orchestras of Detroit, South Dakota, Phoenix and Rochester, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Philip Glass Ensemble. A frequent soloist with Music of the Baroque, she can be heard on the group's recording Vom Himmel Hoch. She also received acclaim for her work in the world premiere and recording of Jon Polifrone's Requiem, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Ms. Lodine made her Carnegie Hall debut in Handel’s Messiah under the baton of composer-conductor John Rutter. She has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Noye's Fludde and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, as well as Stravinsky's Les noces, Requiem Canticles and Mass, under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. At the Ravinia Festival, she made her debut in Strauss' Elektra, conducted by James Levine. Ms. Lodine graduated magna cum laude from Indiana University with bachelor of music degree in voice and theory. She is also a member of the Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble "Conspirare."
Dr. Paul Nesheim
Associate Professor of Music and Director of The Augustana Choir and Chamber Choir
605.274.5402
paul.nesheim@augie.edu
Dr. Paul Nesheim joined Augustana in 2012 as Associate Professor of Music and Director of The Augustana Choir and Chamber Choir. Dr. Nesheim most recently served as associate professor of music and director of choral activities at Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he conducted three choirs and taught choral conducting. He also served as artistic director of the Fargo-Moorhead Chamber Chorale and the conductor of the Senior Choir at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Moorhead.
Dr. Nesheim has served on the faculties of Concordia College in Moorhead and Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He has held positions conducting high school, church, and community choirs in Minnesota, California, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Arizona. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from St. Olaf College, a Master of Music degree in choral music from Arizona State University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Arizona. He has studied conducting with Maurice Skones, Douglas McEwen, Kenneth Jennings and Miles Johnson. Nesheim is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, and is a frequent clinician and guest conductor for high school festivals and honor choirs. Dr. Nesheim is a published composer and the author of “Building Beautiful Voices,” a book of vocalization methods and materials published by the Roger Dean Publishing Company.
Judith Schreck
Voice Instructor
605.274.5405
jschreck@augie.edu
Dr. Russell Svenningsen is Assistant Professor of Music at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D. where he conducts the Collegiate Chorale, teaches music theory and has a studio of voice students. Russell holds an M.M., Choral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music and a B.M., Music Education, from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN. His D.M.A., Music Education, was awarded from Boston University where he studied with Dr. Roger Mantie. His dissertation “This singing: The Norwegian Singers through a Gramscian lens” presents an ethnographic case study of the Norwegian Singers Association of America (also the Pacific Coast or PCNSA) grounded within a conceptual framework constructed from the philosophy and writings of Italian neo-Marxist, Antonio Gramsci. This research was undertaken so as to contribute to discourses that act upon and within or otherwise influence the development of philosophical, pedagogical and curricular practices where issues of difference are concerned.
An active performer, Russell has appeared as featured soloist with orchestras and opera companies both locally and around the world. Recent performances include: presentations of Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise around the Midwest, performances with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and appearances with Sounds of South Dakota, a local opera company. Russell is planning a recital for the fall of 2013 featuring the music of Roger Quilter, Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten’s Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac.
Russell is also in demand as clinician and guest conductor and regularly travels to work with choirs of many different types around the United States. Most recently he was a guest artist-in-residence at the Roxbury Choral Invitational, a choral festival in New Jersey now in its twenty-third year, where he was privileged to hear and work with twenty-four choirs from five states.
Russell and his wife, Sarah, are the parents of two children, Anders and Annika. He is an avid (but terrible) golfer.
