Pamela Beasley

Pamela Beasley, soprano, has been active as both a performer and teacher for more than twenty years. She has appeared in operatic roles with Fort Worth Opera, Mobile Opera, Birmingham Civic Opera, Pensacola Opera, Southern Regional Opera and UM Lyric Theater. Her performance experience also includes music theater roles, oratorio and sacred concert engagements as well as solo recitals. In 1996, she was featured as a soloist at Carnegie Hall.
Mrs. Beasley is also a faculty member in the School of Music at James Madison University and serves on the faculty of Operafestival di Roma, Rome, Italy. She has previously served on the faculties of Auburn University-Montgomery, the University of South Alabama, the University of Mobile, Liberty University, and Mary Baldwin College. In addition to applied voice, she has taught solo vocal literature, vocal pedagogy, vocal diction, and has directed choral ensembles.

Professional activities have included a four-year term as State Governor for Alabama's Chapter of the National Associtation of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and past Board member for VA-NATS. Mrs. Beasley was herself a State and Southeast Regional First Place winner of NATS auditions. Her students have also been winners at State and Regional NATS auditions and at district Metropolitan Opera auditions.

She received te B.M.E. degree from the University of Montevallo and the M.M. degree from Southwestern Siminary. She studied voice with Benjamin Middaugh and Lynda Poston-Smith, and vocal pedagogy with James McKinney (The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults) and Jeanette LoVetri (Somatic Voicework).