Dr. Lynn Eustis, soprano, a member of the University of North Texas faculty since 1999, is currently Associate Professor of Voice. She holds the Doctor of Music degree in opera from Florida State University, a Master of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from Bucknell University, Phi Beta Kappa.
A guest artist at the Chichester Cathedral (UK) in summer 2005, her other international performances include three years as a recital soloist at the Hudebni Festival Vysocina in the Czech Republic . Other recent appearances include Damon in Handel's Acis and Galatea at the Crested Butte Music Festival (CO) and Iphis in Handel's Jephtha under the baton of Graeme Jenkins with the Dallas Bach Society. In spring 1998, she was the First Place Winner at the Florida Suncoast Opera Guild Competition. She has appeared at the Brevard Music Center (as a guest artist), the National Opera Company (two seasons on tour), the Ash Lawn-Highland Festival, and the European Opera Center in Belgium . Roles include the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor , Rosina in The Barber of Seville , Marie in The Daughter of the Regiment , Pamina in The Magic Flute , and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro . She appears regularly as a soloist with numerous professional organizations, including the Dallas Bach Society, Fort Worth Dallas Ballet, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the San Angelo Symphony, Fort Worth Early Music, the Orchestra of New Spain, the Williamsport Symphony (PA), Master Chorale of South Florida , Concert Royal (NY), and the Æxxus Vocal Ensemble (NY). Works include King Arthur (Purcell), Handel's Messiah, Requiem, and Coronation Mass (Mozart), Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn), Magnificat (Bach), The Creation (Haydn), St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Zephyre (Rameau), and La Musique in Les arts florissants (M.A. Charpentier). She has also been heard as soprano soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Cantata No. 51 (Bach) and Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor. With the Texas All-State Mixed Choir at the 2000 TMEA Convention in San Antonio , she was the soprano soloist for Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore. She is featured as the soprano soloist in Klavier Music Productions' 2003 recording of Carmina burana (Orff).
Dr. Eustis is the author of The Singer's Ego: On Finding Balance Between Music and Life ( Chicago : GIA Publications, 2005). Presentations on this material include the 2005 Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, the 2004 Texas Music Teachers Association State Convention, and the 2005 Texoma NATS Artist Series. She is a frequent lecturer on music of the Holocaust, including presentations at the 1999 College Music Society Annual Meeting ( Denver ), the 2000 Texoma Region NATS Artist Series, the 2001 TMEA Convention, the Bridwell Judaica Lecture Series (SMU), and the 2004 Texas Music Teachers Association State Convention. Her students have been heard with the Opera Theater of St. Louis, Central City Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera North, Amarillo Opera, Concert Royal (NYC), the Vancouver Early Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Brevard Music Center , and the Dallas Bach Society.
A native of Long Island , New York , Dr. Eustis was previously Assistant Professor of Voice/Opera at Howard Payne University .