Since completing her graduate degree Echo has expanded her teaching, performing and her love of traveling. Echo has traveled to the Yucatan peninsula, Egypt, Jamaica, Greece, Belgium, Germany, and Italy twice. She uses every experience as a means to learn more about music and language and to improve her teaching style. While she still teaches Vocal Instruction for Musical Theatre at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville via the drama department, she is also happily returning to teach voice, kinderkids programs, theatre camp, and assist with the musical theatre productions at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith, Academy of the Arts.

Along with opera and musical theatre, Echo loves all kinds of music. She plays guitar and sings for the Fayetteville based folk band “Early Morning Bourbon Girls” which was nominated for “Best Folk Band” at the NAMAS (Northwest Arkansas Music Awards) April 2007. She has performed in choral concerts, honors  recitals, musicals, award ceremonies, and operas. She starred as The Governess in The Turn of the Screw, Elle in La Voix Humaine, Almirena in Handel’s Rinaldo, and she performed the role of Sister Angelica from Puccini’s Suor Angelica twice. She first sang the role in the University of Arkansas Opera Theatre production and then she sang it once more, a year later, for the Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point 2006 season. This year, in May, Echo left for Italy to pursue her studies in music and the language once more. She excitedly returned home in early July to continue her teaching.

 

Education:

Master of Music in Vocal Performance - University of Arkansas