Dr. Sherri Weiler Assistant Professor of Music 706-233-7277 sweiler@shorter.edu

Dr. Sherri Weiler is Assistant Professor of Music, teaching voice, vocal pedagogy, voice class, and Russian diction. Born in Greenville, SC, she received both the BA and M.Ed degrees from Clemson University. She received the MM degree from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and the DM degree from Florida State University.

Dr. Weiler has taught voice at Alaska Pacific University, University of Alaska Anchorage, Florida A&M University, and Florida State University. She served as Director and Artistic Director of Anchorage Opera’s Studio Theatre, a young artist touring and educational program, from 2000-2002. Dr. Weiler has worked part-time as a non-licensed voice therapist in an otolaryngology office.

Her professional publications include two articles for the Journal of Singing on the songs of Berlioz and Wagner, and several articles on vocal pedagogy for Classical Singer magazine; professional presentations include a lecture-recital on Russian art song performed for both the Southern chapter and the 47th national conference of the College Music Society. Dr. Weiler was a featured chamber music performer at the 2004 national conference of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and presented a paper tracing folk elements in 19th-century Russian art song at the 2006 national conference in Minneapolis. She has served as chapter president and secretary for NATS in Alaska, and is currently membership chair for the Georgia chapter of NATS.

As a performer Dr. Weiler was selected by Mstislav Rostropovich to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with the National Symphony in 1992 which helped instill a great love for and appreciation of Russian vocal literature. The singer coached Russian language and song literature for fourteen years with Svetlana Velichko, a graduate of and 29-year member of the Moscow Conservatory piano faculty. The two have a compact disc on the Centaur label, released in 2001, titled Russia: Golden Century of Song.

Dr. Weiler has performed the VerdiRequiem with bass Jerome Hines, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with soprano Erie Mills, and a Schubert bicentennial recital with pianist John Wustman. She has appeared with the Florida State Opera, Anchorage Opera, Sacramento Opera, Cleveland Opera, and Opera West in roles including Mrs. Grose (Britten’s The Turn of the Screw), Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe), Mercedes (Bizet’s Carmen), and the Mother in Menotti’s two operas The Consul and Amahl and the Night Visitors.

At Shorter College, Dr. Weiler performed the role of Marie of the Incarnation in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites in 2005 and in January 2007 sang the role of La Principessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica. She has given vocal recitals for the University of Toledo, Willamette University and Portland State University, the Oregon Music Teachers’ Association, Anchorage Opera, Anchorage Festival of Music, the University of Alaska Anchorage, Florida A&M University, and Shorter College.