Chandi Millet Plummer

Style: Pop; Opera; Jazz; Folk; Gospel; Classical; Musical Theatre

Title: Area Coordinator for Voice at Boyce College; Adjunct Professor

Bio:

Chandi Millet Plummer, D.M.A., is a voice and music professor based in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the coordinator for vocal studies at Boyce College. She was a part time lecturer in voice during Prof. Chad Sloan’s sabbatical at the University of Louisville (fall 2025). As a lyric coloratura soprano, she regularly performs chamber music, oratorios, and recitals. She teaches voice, vocal pedagogy, the international phonetic alphabet and diction, choral conducting, and children’s music methods, among other classes. She is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, where her students have advanced as semi-finalists and finalists in both national and regional competitions. Plummer regularly performs lecture recitals based on her extensive research found in her dissertation: How Spirituals Influenced Both Resistance to Nazis and Civil Rights Protests. In Cambridge, England, she was honored to deliver a lecture recital (June 2025). She presented a poster presentation on this same topic at the NATS National Conference in 2024, and performed a lecture recital later that summer at the Bay View Music Festival in Michigan. She has guest lectured and taught master classes at the Center for Creative Arts High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee (2025), the University of Kentucky and Bellarmine University (2024), and Colorado Christian University (2022). Plummer has been honored to teach vocal pedagogy mentorship classes to teachers in the Louisville area and her former students (fall 2024, spring and fall 2025). Plummer brings diverse musical experience to her current singing career specializing in chamber music, recitals, concert work, and oratorios. In the 2022 International Clara Schumann Competition she won second prize in the professional voice category. She annually performs the soprano solos for G. F. Handel’s Messiah. She is the artistic director and founding member of Soli Deo Gloria, a chamber music ensemble which has featured violin, soprano, and piano. Some of her favorite performances of operatic scenes and roles include: Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel) with The Louisville Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra), and Menotti’s The Medium (Monica) in the Killer Women of Opera concert in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Plummer received a B.M. in voice performance with an honors scholarship from The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she studied with Patricia Berlin; an M.M. in voice performance from Southern Seminary; and a D.M.A. in voice performance from the University of Kentucky where she studied with Dr. Everett McCorvey. Her dissertation is How Spirituals Influenced Both Resistance to Nazis and Civil Rights Protests: https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2024.54

Voice Type: Soprano

Music Styles Taught: Pop; Opera; Jazz; Folk; Gospel; Classical; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am available as a performer; I have a wait-list for private lessons; I am currently accepting private students; I am available as a clinician or presenter; I accept students through a college or university program

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