JERROLD POPE, Associate Professor of Voice, holds a B.M. from New England Conservatory, an M.M. from Yale University, and a D.M.A. from Rutgers University. After apprenticeships at Central City Opera and Sante Fe Opera, he gained critical attention appearing as an ECCO! Artist with the Cincinnati Opera Company in productions of La Boheme and Roméo et Juliette. Since then his opera credits have included Théàtre du Châtelet in Paris, England's Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Buxton Opera Festival, and the Netherlands Opera Forum in Amsterdam, as well as the opera companies of Pittsburgh, Tulsa, Boston, Orlando, Grand Rapids, Anchorage and the Texas Opera Theater.

Mr. Pope's festival appearances have included the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfest and the London BBC Proms with the late Leonard Bernstein, the Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein, the Saratoga Music Festival, and the Carmel Bach Music Festival. He has performed in concert at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow with the Schleswig-Holstein Festival under Maestro Bernstein, Brooklyn Academy of Music with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and at New York's Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony. He has also sung with the Rotterdam Philharmonia, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh, Charleston, St. Louis, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, as well as with New York's Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Pope also serves on the voice faculty at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria.