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The Badgett Studio |
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Teaching Excellence and Success to Every Student |
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About alison |
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Alison Badgett is a 2000 graduate of the University of Kentucky, with a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance. She also completed the Master of Music in Voice Performance in 2002 at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. She has studied with such notable teachers as Stephen King (currently of Rice University and Voice Teacher in Residence of the Houston Grand Opera Studio) and Gail Robinson (Chair of Voice, University of Kentucky, and formerly of the Metropolitan Opera). She has also sung in masterclasses with Myra Merritt, Sherrill Milnes, Power Performance for Singers authors Shirlee Emmons and Alma Thomas, and Robert Edwin, NATS “Bach to Rock” columnist and private instructor. Alison, a light lyric coloratura, has sung the roles of ‘Susanna’ in Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) and ‘Lucy’ in The Telephone (Menotti), and has performed an array of Oratorio solos with orchestra, including The Messiah (Handel), The Seven Last Words of Christ (DuBois), Magnificat (Rutter), St. Paul (Mendelssohn), Gloria (Poulenc), and Cantata #80 (Bach). Alison is available for professional singing engagements. Please email for a sample CD or to discuss rates and availability. Alison is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and has been teaching for 6 years. Her students’ achievements have included a Semi-Finalist in the Overture Awards (2004), leads in school musicals all over Cincinnati, Ohio, acceptance into the Governor’s School for the Arts in Kentucky, and acceptance and music scholarships into many fine colleges and universities, including Indiana University, Belmont University, Hanover College, and Northern Kentucky University. Alison, her husband Jonathan and daughter Madison have just recently moved to Long Island, where Jon now serves as Pastor of Worship at Wantagh Baptist Church. |