Elizabeth Ann Benson

Style: Pop; Folk; Rock; Musical Theatre

Title: Associate Professor of Music Theatre Voice

Bio: Dr. Elizabeth Ann Benson is recognized as a dynamic pedagogue, scholar, and performer. She is an Associate Professor of Music Theatre Voice at Auburn University, where she teaches applied voice for music theatre majors and group voice for non-majors. She is the founder and owner of Benson Music Studios, specializing in voice training for musical theatre, popular, and contemporary singers and teachers. As a master class clinician, Elizabeth has presented for The New York Singing Teachers’ Association (NYSTA), for Colorado-Wyoming NATS, and at several universities and theatre companies around the country, including The University of Colorado in Boulder and Queensbury Theatre in Houston. She specializes in vocal function, with stylistic applications spanning from opera to musical theatre to rock singing. She has trained in numerous methodologies including Somatic Voicework™, the LoVetri Method, Soul Ingredients® Method, Rock the Audition with Sheri Sanders, and Sharpening Your CCM Tootkit with Dane Chalfin and Kim Chandler, and is a certified Voice Habilitation Specialist with Vocal Health Education. Her book, Training Contemporary Commercial Singers is hailed as “a remarkable and long-awaited contribution to the world of voice pedagogy” (Journal of Singing). Her current research program examines issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging within the voice studio. In 2023, she co-authored the groundbreaking fat liberationist article “Anti-Fat Bias in the Singing Voice Studio,” (Journal of Singing, published in two parts) with Kate Rosen (Fat Joy Voice, Kate Rosen Voice Studio). In 2021, she co-authored the seminal anti-racist article “Practicing Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the Singing Voice Studio,” (Voice and Speech Review) with Trineice Robinson-Martin (Princeton University) and Marisa Lee Naismith (Griffith University, Queensland Conservatorium). A versatile singer herself, career highlights include opera (Carnegie Hall), musical theatre (Symphony Center), rock (The Hard Rock Cafe Atlanta), and virtual and live cabaret shows. www.elizabethannbenson.com

Voice Type: Not Applicable

Music Styles Taught: Pop; Folk; Rock; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am available as a performer; I am currently accepting private students; I am available as a clinician or presenter; I offer lessons in a group environment; I accept students through a college or university program

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