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Kurt-Alexander Zeller

Director of Opera and Vocal Studies


Office: Music Education Carnes Hall for Music 207
Visual and Performing Arts
College of Arts & Sciences
KurtZeller@clayton.edu
Phone: (678) 466-4759

Biography

Education

DMA, Voice Performance (cognate areas: Opera Directing and Musicology), College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, 1990

MM, Voice Performance, College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, 1984

BM, Voice Performance, Southern Methodist University, 1982

BFA, Theatre, Southern Methodist University, 1981

Intellectual Contributions

Melissa Malde, MaryJean Allen, Kurt-Alexander Zeller, What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body, 4th ed., Plural Publishing – June 2020

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, The Operas of Alice Parker, Recipient of the National Opera Association Sacred in Opera Achievement Award, National Opera Association Sacred in Opera Newsletter (online) – July 13 2020

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, Opera and Women of the Bible: A Production Reflection, National Opera Association "The Sacred in Opera" – June 2010

Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, Michiko Otaki, Farewell to Arms--A Last Goodbye, Clayton State University Department of Film, Communication, and Performing Arts –  November 2 2025

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, Michiko Otaki, At Sunset: Reflections on Transition, Clayton State University Department of Film, Communication, and Performing Arts –  March 30 2025

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, Die Fledermaus, or The Revenge of the Bat, Golden Isles Arts and Humanities –  January 28 2024

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, 110 in the Shade, Department of Film, Communication and Performing Arts –  April 5 2024 to April 6 2024

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, A Lincoln Portrait, by Aaron Copland , Southern Crescent Chorale –  November 10 2024

Presentations

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, Jonathan Harris, Shawn Bulloch, Cross-Curricular Collaboration: The Opera that Met the Film Production Faculty, National Opera Association 68th National Conference, National Opera Association –  January 5 2023

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, MaryJean Allen, Melissa Malde, Let's Get Moving! Body Mapping Activities for School and Studio, 54th National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conference, National Association of Teachers of Singing –  July 9 2016

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, Casey Robards, Amy Pfrimmer, Philip Seward, Tammie Huntington, Sacred Music Drama in America: 100 Years with the works of Seymour Barab and David Brubeck, National Opera Association 67th National Conference, National Opera Association –  January 7 2022

Kurt-Alexander Zeller, "You Can't Get There from Here": Avoiding Dead-end Results with Better (Body) Maps, 8th International Congress of Voice Teachers July 11 2013

Alice Parker, Kurt-Alexander Zeller, Michelle Louer, An Interview with Alice Parker, NOA Sacred In Opera Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, "Strengthening the Foundation" National Opera Association Virtual National Conference (online), National Opera Association –  January 2021

Service to the University & University System of Georgia

University System, Board of Regents Academic Advisory Committee on Fine and Applied Arts, Committee Member –  September 2008 to June 2020

University System, Board of Regents Academic Advisory Committee on Fine and Applied Arts, Chairperson –  March 2014 to April 2015

University, Provost's ad hoc Promotion and Tenure Criteria Committee, Committee Chair –  September 16 2009 to October 31 2011

University, University Curriculum Committee, Committee Member –  August 2024 to Present

University, CSU Presidential Investiture Committee, Committee Member –  Spring 2024 to September 20 2024

College, ad hoc College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Promotion and Tenure Publication Standards, Committee Chair –  September 10 2008 to December 16 2008

University, Spivey Hall Friends Council Advisors, Committee Member –  June 2018 to Present

Service to the Profession

Officer, President/Elect/Past, Mu Phi Epsilon, International –  July 2021 to Present

Committee Member, National Opera Association, National –  January 2010 to Present

Committee Member, Association for Body Mapping Education, International –  June 2019 to 2025

Board of Directors of a Company, Atlanta Early Music Alliance, Local –  2016 to 2022

Committee Chair, Mu Phi Epsilon, International –  August 2017 to Present

Teaching Interest

Music
Opera and other forms of music drama
Diction for Singers
Health and Wellness in the Performing Arts

Research Interest

Seventeenth-century opera
Fin-de-siecle Vienna
British art song between the World Wars
Body Mapping and its application to music and theatre