BA in choral music and performance, Earlham College 1955

MA in music, Harvard University 1957

Bel Canto vocal pedagogy and voice performance study with Marjorie Allen, Los Altos, CA 1964-1974

Many years of study of vocal anatomy, physiology, and acoustics

Alexander Technique:

  * First Alexander Technique lessons were with Joyce Suskind (New York City)

   * Trained as an AT teacher with Joan and Alex Murray, Urbana, IL

    * Has been a certified teaching member of STAT and AmSAT (formerly NASTAT) since 1987

Teaching:

    * 30 years choral directing experience

    * Taught Chamber Music; an integrated Music Theory & Composition course; and a Basic Voice course, which eventually included the Alexander Technique at the Residential College of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1972-2003

    * Have taught workshop, classes, and lessons around the world since 1991

    * Opened the Alexander Technique Ann Arbor teacher-training school, January 2005