The American mezzo-soprano and voice teacher, Shelley Auer Schneider, studied at Neighborhood Playhouse; and obtained here Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Baylor University.
Shelley Schneider has been teaching and performing for 20 years. She taught at Sam Houston University, Houston Community College and Alvin Community College. While living in Houston for 12 years, she performed with the Houston Grand Opera chorus for 10 seasons as well as performing with Opera to Go, HGOs educational outreach program. Other performances in Houston include operatic roles in Die Fledermaus, Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, W.A. Mozart's Cosi fan tutti, Cabildo and musical theater roles in Camelot, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Company, and Sweeney Todd.
Shelley Schneider joined the music department at Concordia University Texas in Austin in 2019. Since moving to Austin, she has performed with Austin Shakespeare in Sunday in the Park with George and University of Texas Musical Theater Workshop to showcase a new musical called Persuasion. She is also active as Certified Yoga Instructor at TownLake YMCA (since July 2019). Since August 2021, she is Adjunct Professor at Lipscomb University and at Adjunct Professor at Belmont University. |