Voice Students Win Top Honors in Regional Competition

Six Ithaca students won first place in their division in the Eastern Region National Association of Teachers of Singing Conference held at the College in March. An additional eight voice students placed as finalists in the competition, which included 140 competitors from New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Quebec.

The Ithaca College honorees, all students in the School of Music, were

• Freshman Women Division
  • First-place winner: Karla Faggard
  • Third-place finalist: Whitney Guy
• Sophomore Men Division
  • First-place winner: Thomas Morris
  • Third-place finalist: Michael Kilcoyne
• Sophomore Women Division
  • Second-place finalist: Sacha Mackerwicz
• Junior Men Division
  • First-place winner: Jermaine Hill
  • Third-place finalist: Michael Vaughan
• Junior Women Division
  • First-place winner: Jessica Julin
  • Second-place finalist: Amanda Capone
• Senior Women Division
  • First-place winner: Joan Stafford
  • Third-place finalist: Sonja Rodriguez
• Advanced Upper Division
  • First-place winner: Ivy Gaibel
• Music Theater Upper Division
  • Second-place finalists (tie): Alyson Cury and Haviland Stillwell

The National Association of Teachers of Singing --- with more than 5,000 members in the United States, Canada, and over two dozen other countries --- is the largest association of teachers of singing in the world. NATS is best known for its student auditions, which give developing singers an opportunity to sing for adjudication, and for its scholarly publication, the Journal of Singing.

For more information contact Alex Dippold in the School of Music at 274-3717.