Ruth Baker, internationally recognized coach and pianist, joined the Lamont School of Music in the fall of 2005 as the Principal Opera Coah for the Lamont Opera Program.  Originally brought to Denver in 1993 by Opera Colorado founders Nathaniel Merrill and Louise Sherman to be the Principal Coach and Pianist for the company and its Joseph and Loretta Law Artist Center, she was later appointed Music Director, Principal Coach and Chorus Master for the 1997 through 2002 seasons. Among the young artists she coached during her tenure with Opera Colorado were Metropolitan Opera Finalists Leah Creek, Charles Edwin Taylor, and Yalun Zhang.

• Office:  Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Room 435
• Phone:  303-871-6967
• Email:  sissinab@comcast.net

• Office:  Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Room 427
• Phone:  303-871-6995
• Email:  sbardill@du.edu
• Background: 

  Sara Bardill, soprano, has been a featured artist throughout the Rocky Mountain region, Bardill has sung featured roles in Opera Colorado's production of Gianni Schicchi and Der Rosenkavalier.  She has soloed in literature ranging from Bach's Mass in B Minor with the Boulder Philharmonic to Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Laramie Symphony Orchestra.  Bardill holds a bachelor of music from St. Olaf College and a master of music in vocal performance from the University of Colorado.  She has been an active teacher of voice for the past twenty one years.

Kenneth Cox has sung for the past thirty years as a leading basso with many of the international opera houses of the world, including Paris, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Seattle, San Diego, Washington, Philadelphia, Dallas, Amsterdam, Brussels, and the Opera San Carlo in Napoli.

• Office:  Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Room 429
• Phone:  303-871-6954
• Email:  kcpizza@aol.com

Kate Emerich, lyric soprano, holds a bachelor of music in vocal performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied with Ilona Kombrink and Lois Fisher. Kate also holds a master of science in communicative disorders, also from the University of Wisconsin , where she was mentored by one of the world's leading Voice Pathologists, Diane Bless, Ph.D. Ms. Emerich worked with one of the world's most renowned Laryngologists, Robert T. Sataloff, M.D., D.M.A. as singing voice specialist and voice pathologist. There she worked with singers from the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, and other professional singers worldwide. She is internationally respected as a clinician, vocal instructor, and singer. She is also currently clinical instructor for the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado, and is Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado.  Ms. Emerich is internationally recognized as a voice specialist. She is CEO of her own company, Vocal Essentials, LLC, specializing in Vocal Instruction and Care of the Professional Voice, which focuses on the optimization and/or rehabilitation of the singing and speaking voice.

• Office:  Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Room 418
• Phone:  303-871-6893
• Email:  kate.emerich@comcast.net
• Publications: 

  Ms. Emerich has authored numerous articles on the singing voice seen in the Journal of Voice, the Journal of Singing, NATS, and in book chapters. She also has two articles on the internet site "OperaMom.com" concerning hormones and the voice. Ms. Emerich has given master classes, lectures and taught courses on pedagogy and care of the professional voice nationally and internationally. She worked as chair of the workshops for the International Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice in Philadelphia and she is on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Voice.

Larry Glenn, Lyric Tenor, Associate Professor of Voice has been teaching voice at the University of Denver for the past 25 years. Mr Glenn holds a Master's Degree in Voice from the Juilliard School.  He has performed throughout the United States as soloist with such companies as the New York City Opera Theater, Connecticut Opera, Georgia Opera Theater, Bel Canto Opera, New York Lyric Opera, Mobile Opera and The National Opera.  He has sung leading roles in over sixty operas including Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Die Zauberflote, Mignon, Cosi Fan Tutte, Faust, L'Elisir d'Amore, Albert Herring, La Traviata, Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, Khovanshchina, Il Giuramento, La Fille du Regiment, A Midsummer's Dream,The  Merry Wives of Windsor,and the American premieres of Gounod's Philemon et Baucis and Fioravanti's Le Cantatrici Viallane.  Mr. Glenn has been a featured soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra, Eve Queller's Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, Westchester Symphony Orchestra, Schenectady Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Pop's Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. 

• Office:  Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Room 409
• Phone:  303-871-6930
• Email:  lglenn@du.edu

Catherine Kasch, soprano, is the 2010 recipient of the University of Denver's "William Driscoll Award for Teaching and Mentorship".  Ms. Kasch continues to study extensively to thoroughly present all lines of technique in both her studio work and in her capacity as undergraduate and graduate teacher of vocal pedagogy at the Lamont School of Music.

• Office:  Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 422
• Phone:  303-871-6879
• Email:  Catherine.Kasch@du.edu
• Background: 

  Bachelor of Music, University of Colorado
  Master of Music and post-master's Artist's Certificate, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

  Ms. Kasch has completed all levels of study at the Contemporary Music Institute with renowned master teacher Jeanne Lovetri and has, herself, taught master classes at Northwestern College, Minnesota, the Sydney Conservatory of Music in Australia, the Amsterdam Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory of Music, Den Haag as well as with the International Opera Studio in Amsterdam.

  She has served as a guest teacher with the Perry Mansfield Institute in Steamboat Springs. Before joining the faculty at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music, she was on the voice faculty at the University of Colorado. Previous teaching includes Triton College and the College of Lake County in Illinois.