Department of Music Faculty
Sylvia Nancy Jo Grimm McClain, DMAAssociate Professor of Music (Voice)(860) 486-4267
McClain has taught voice at Hardin-Simmons University, Southwestern University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Howard Payne University. She has also directed opera theatre programs and trained numerous students for prominent vocal performances, competitions and careers. McClain has been a resident voice professor at the Altenburg Music Festival and Vocal Academy in Altenburg, Germany, and at the Austrian-American Vocal Academy in Salzburg, Austria. McClain is a graduate of Indiana University, where she studied with Margaret Harshaw and coached with Frank St. Ledger, Tibor Kozma and Carl Fuerstner, and worked with stage directors Ross Allan and Hans Busch. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Stuttgart, Germany, where she worked with Gunther Rennert and Klaus Nagora. She received her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with Barbara Honn. |
Sylvia McClain is an associate professor of voice and opera at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches vocal performance. McClain has had a distinguished career as a performer and a scholar, both in Germany and the U.S. She lived in Germany for nine years and performed in opera, concert, recital and oratorio. She has received awards for her scholarship and is a member of the Fulbright Alumni Association. She is an honorary member of Pi Kappa Lambda and was invited to join Phi Beta Kappa.