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The American soprano, Elizabeth Packard Arnold, obtained her Bachelor of Music Education degree with a concentration in voice from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and her Masters of Sacred Music degree in Choral Conducting from Emory University. She studied German oratorio at the Benjamin Britten-Peter Pears School in Aldeburgh, England with Kurt Equiluz, Ruth Drucker, and Alastair Ross. She participated in Stephen Stubb’s summer Baroque opera program, Accademia d’Amore, in Seattle. She has also performed in master-classes or coached with numerous Baroque specialists, including David Adams, John Aler, Julianne Baird, Elizabeth Colson, Kenneth Griffiths, Gwen Halstead, Warren Jones, William McGraw, Richard Miller, Nancy Walker, and members of the American Bach Soloists. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance from the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music Her cognate and areas of special interest are in Baroque music.
Elizabeth Packard Arnold is a versatile singer who has frequently performed as a soloist in recitals and oratorios throughout the USA with emphasis on early music and the Lieder of Franz Liszt. She has sung with numerous regional orchestras and frequently performed as a soloist with the New Trinity Baroquy Ensemble (NTB) in cantatas of J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel and Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. In March 2002 she was a soloist in the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 (Atlanta premiere), and in April of the same year she was a soloist in W.A. Mozart's Requiem at Emory University. She was featured with New Trinity Baroque in programs such as "The Italian Handel" (which included the Atlanta premiere on period instruments of G.F. Handel's Gloria, discovered in 2001), Charpentier's Messe de Minuit, Carissimi's Jonas and Jephte, etc. She also appeared in early music performances with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the Merry Band, the Gwinnett Philharmonia, Ritornello, and others. Her many sacred solo performances include J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) and Cantatas BWV 51, BWV 100, BWV 106, and BWV 202, Dietrich Buxtehude's solo cantata Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe, Antonio Vivaldi's Beatus Vir and Gloria, G.F. Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Mass in Time of War, Lord Nelson Mass, and Missa Brevis, W.A. Mozart's Requiem, Schubert's Mass in G, Felix Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise, Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, and Camille Saint-Saëns' Christmas Oratorio.
She can be heard as soprano soloist in Benjamin Britten's Te Deum in C with the Britten Choir (ACA Digital Recording). Her recorded performances with New Trinity Baroque of Carissimi’s Jonas and Jepthe, Charpentier’s Messe de Nuit, Monteverdi’s Selve Morale e Spirituale, and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas appear on Edition Lilac. She also participates in numerous performances with Dieter Hennings, guitar/lute, first performing together as part of the fringe concert series for the Boston Early Music Festival. She currently collaborates with Baroque trumpeter Jason Dovel to develop an early music program at UK. Her performances of F. Liszt’s songs include recitals and presentations in Weimar, Germany as part of the International Franz Liszt Congress for the 200th anniversary of his birth and the American Liszt Festivals in San Francisco and Arizona.
Elizabeth Packard Arnold served as an Artist-Affiliate in voice at Emory University from 1994 until May 2003 when she assumed teaching duties in voice at the University of Kentucky in September 2003. From 2006 to 2009 she was also an Assistant Professor at Transylvania University where she directed the Transylvania Singers (Women’s Choir) and taught applied voice, opera workshop, vocal diction, and song literature. Her students have successfully been accepted into graduate schools, musical theater and opera programs/productions, as well as placed in university and secondary school positions. In August 2009 she assumed the position of Assistant Professor in voice at the University of Kentucky where she teaches applied lessons. She served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and currently serves as Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts. Currently she is Associate Professor in voice at the University of Kentucky and Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts. She regularly collaborates with Professor Lori Hetzel as the voice technician for the UK Women’s Choir; they demonstrate the value of a partnership between choral conductors and voice professors in rehearsals. Their work resulted in “Voice Building for Choirs” at regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Associations. In addition, she has presented on this topic at conferences and universities, including the regional American Guild of Organists, as a faculty member at the Presbyterian Association’s of Musicians national conference in North Carolina, and as a guest clinician at universities in Texas, North Carolina, and Toronto. She is also a contributor to the book and accompanying DVD: Conducting Women’s Choirs: Strategies for Success, editor and co-author Debra Surgeon (Chicago: GIA Publications). She has given scholarly presentations and lecture recitals at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and College Music Society (CMS).
Elizabeth Packard Arnold is a certified Koru mindfulness instructor and has lectured on music and mindfulness at NATS, CMS, and the Presbyterian Association of Musicians. She teaches the curricula she designed, “Mindfulness for Singers” and “Mindfulness for Musicians and Artists,” at distinguished young artist programs such as Music Academy of the West and the Kennedy Center for the Arts, including the Washington National Opera Institute and the National Symphony Orchestra. She has received invitations to present on similar topics from the Florida Music Educators Music Association and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. |
