Lynn Eustis
Director of Graduate Studies/Voice
/ (940) 369-7544
Dr. Lynn Eustis, soprano, a member of the University of North Texas faculty since 1999, is currently Associate Professor of Voice and Director of Graduate Studies in Music. She holds the Doctor of Music degree in opera from Florida State University, a Master of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from Bucknell University, Phi Beta Kappa.
She appears regularly as a soloist with numerous professional organizations. She has been heard internationally with the Hudebni Festival Vysocina and the Američke Jaro Festival in the Czech Republic, the Festival de Opera with the Compania Lirica Nacional (Costa Rica), the Guangzhou Symphony (China), and as a soloist at Chichester Cathedral (UK). Other organizations include the Dallas Bach Society, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the San Angelo Symphony, Texas Ballet Theater, Fort Worth Early Music, the Orchestra of New Spain, the Crested Butte Music Festival (CO), the Williamsport Symphony (PA), Tulsa Oratorio, Master Chorale of South Florida, Concert Royal (NY), and the Æxxus Vocal Ensemble (NY). Works include Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Barber), King Arthur (Purcell), Messiah (Handel), Requiem, and Coronation Mass (Mozart), Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn), Magnificat (Bach), The Creation (Haydn), St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Zephyre (Rameau), and La Musique in Les arts florissants (M.A. Charpentier). She has also been heard as soprano soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Cantata No. 51 (Bach) and Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor. With the Texas All-State Mixed Choir at the 2000 TMEA Convention in San Antonio, she was the soprano soloist for Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore. Recordings include Carmina burana (Klavier Music Productions, 2003), featured soloist with Anam Cara on Innisfree (GIA Publications Choral Series, 2007) and the SCI Performers Series recording Portraits (Capstone, 2007). With Westminster Williamson Voices she appeared as the title soloist in the U.S. premiere of James Whitbourn’s Annelies: The Anne Frank Oratorio. She has been heard at Carnegie Hall with DCINY (Distinguished Concerts International New York) as the soprano soloist for Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore and Vesperae de Dominica.
Dr. Eustis has sung over thirty operatic roles, most notably the title roles in Lucia di Lammermoor and The Daughter of the Regiment, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and Gilda in Rigoletto. In spring 1998, she was the First Place Winner at the Florida Suncoast Opera Guild Competition. She has appeared at the Brevard Music Center (as a guest artist), the National Opera Company (two seasons on tour), the Ash Lawn-Highland Festival, and the European Opera Center in Belgium.
Dr. Eustis is the author of The Singer's Ego: On Finding Balance Between Music and Life ( Chicago : GIA Publications, 2005), Finding Middle Ground: Music for Young Sopranos and Mezzo-Sopranos (Chicago: GIA Publications, 2007), and Finding Middle Ground: Music for Young Tenors and Baritones (Chicago: GIA Publications, 2009). Presentations on this material include the 2010 National NATS Conference in Salt Lake City, the 2005 Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, the 2004 Texas Music Teachers Association State Convention, and the 2005 Texoma NATS Artist Series. She is a frequent lecturer on music of the Holocaust, including presentations at the 1999 College Music Society Annual Meeting (Denver ), the 2000 Texoma Region NATS Artist Series, the 2001 TMEA Convention, the Bridwell Judaica Lecture Series (SMU), and the 2004 Texas Music Teachers Association State Convention. Her students have been heard with the Salzburg Music Festival, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Central City Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Ohio Light Opera, Opera North, Amarillo Opera, Concert Royal (NYC), Amor Artis (NYC), the Vancouver Early Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Brevard Music Center and the Dallas Bach Society. During the summer she is a member of the faculty at the Up North Vocal Institute in Boyne City, Michigan.
A native of Long Island, New York, Dr. Eustis was previously Assistant Professor of Voice/Opera at Howard Payne University.
