Brian Leeper
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Brian Leeper (b. 1959, Fremont, Nebraska) is a teacher of voice at La Musica Lirica [1], a five-week summer opera program in Novafeltria, Italy. Mr. Leeper joined the program in 2006 as Director of the Studio Program, and currently teaches voice at the summer academy. He was previously on the voice faculty of Operafestival di Roma in Rome, Italy, and Lutheran Summer Music Program.
In addition to his duties at La Musica Lirica, Mr. Leeper has been the Voice Area Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater since 2004. He previously was on the vocal faculties of Butler University, Anderson University, Western Illinois University, Nebraska Wesleyan University and Doane College.
Mr. Leeper also is currently Director of Opera Workshop at UW-Whitewater, and previously held the position at Western Illinois University and Nebraska Wesleyan University. He studied opera directing at The Florida State University under Lincoln Clark [2] .
An active recitalist and opera artist, Mr. Leeper has performed over 20 operatic roles with houses in the United States and Italy, Including Operafestival di Roma, The Cleveland Orchestra, Muddy River Opera Company, The Quad Cities Handel Oratorio Society, The Peoria Bach Festival [3], Southern Opera Theater, New York Cantata Singers [4] and the Blossom Music Center. He made his New York City debut performing the role of Dulcamara in Donezetti's L'elisir d'amore at [5] CAMI Hall in 1996. While a resident of NYC, he was bass section leader at Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, New York and Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Leeper holds degrees from Luther College, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is currently a candidate for the DM in Voice Performance at The Florida State University, where he studied voice with Yvonne Ciannella and Roy Delp. Previous teachers include Marlena Malas, Sherrill Milnes, Herald Stark and David Judisch. Coaches he has worked with include John Wustman, Martin Katz, Valerie Trujillo, Douglas Fisher and Steven Lord. Mr. Leeper is on the Executive Board of the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and a member of The College Music Society.
