Dr. Tammie Huntington

Dr. Tammie Huntington, Soprano, received her Doctor of Arts degree in Voice Performance with an emphasis in opera direction from Ball State University in 2008, where she produced and directed the world premiere of Fifty-Third Street, a new American opera by composer Jody Nagel.  Huntington has since presented her work on Fifty-Third Street at the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities in 2009; the International Congress of Voice Teachers (poster presentation) in Paris, France, in 2009; the National Opera Association Annual Convention (poster presentation) in San Antonio, TX in 2011; and at the National Opera Association Annual Conference, Sacred in Opera Session, in Cleveland, OH, in January 2020. 

In 2010, Huntington, with colleagues Dr. Lisa Moore and Dr. Phoenix Park-Kim, formed the ensemble Soprani Compagni for the purpose of modeling soprano collaboration and commissioning new works for soprano duet.  Soprani Compagni had their Carnegie Hall debut in 2012, and performed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the College Music Society International Conference in 2013. Through a generous grant obtained from the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities in 2015, Soprani Compagni commissioned twelve new works for two sopranos and piano themed around Portraits of Women.  The compilation is available in a 2-CD album recording, available on all major streaming platforms, and published in a 2-Volume anthology.  Soprani Compagni spent 2016-2017 touring South Korea, Hong Kong, China and the U.S. with the Portraits of Women project, and performed at the International Congress of Voice Teachers at Stockholm, Sweden, in August of 2017. 

Huntington continues to be an active proponent of new music and new opera, recently recording and filming the role of “Amanda” in Philip Seward’s A House Divided, an operatic web series. She presently serves as Editor of the Sacred in Opera Newsletter for the National Opera Association, and as President for the Indiana Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Huntington is a Professor of Music at Indiana Wesleyan University, where she teaches Applied Voice and Lyric Theatre studies.