Madeline Harts is a voice teacher and coach, vocologist, singer and collaborative pianist. A strong advocate for the advancement and outreach of musical arts, her research focuses on musical theatre and contemporary commercial music (CCM) vocal pedagogy, vocology and voice habilitation, as well as women composers in the musical theatre genre. As an educator, she has held positions at the Schwob School of Music of Columbus State University, SUNY Fredonia, Niagara University, the University at Buffalo, the University of Miami Frost School of Music, the Miami Conservatory of Music and Bowling Green State University. Harts is an active researcher and, in January 2025, was an Honorary Award winner at the National Opera Association (NOA) and National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Winter Conference for her paper "Taking Care: The Case for Voice Care Networks in the Opera Company." She was also awarded a Presser Foundation Music Grant to conduct research and record the music of women composers at the Harvard University Houghton Archives and British Library. Harts was selected to present on these findings at the 2022 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Conference in Chicago, IL, and the 2022 Sam Houston State University Art Song Festival. She continues to present vocal masterclasses and workshops at universities and organizations nationally. Praised for her "freely produced top and dark midrange" by South Florida Classical Review, she has performed with the John Duffy Institute of New Opera and won the Patti and Alan Herbert Frost Mirabelle Competition, performing at the Salzburgfestspiele. She is an alum of the Toledo Opera Resident Artist Program. Productions include The Light in the Piazza (Margaret Johnson), The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel), The Music Man (Marian), Die Fledermaus (Adele), Der Schauspieldirektor (Madame Herz), Werther (Sophie), Roméo et Juliette, and Lucia di Lammermoor, among others. Harts holds a DMA in vocal pedagogy and performance from the University of Miami Frost School of Music, and degrees from Bowling Green State University (MM) and Ithaca College (BM). As an arts administrator, she was Executive Director of the Grammy® Award-winning Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus. Other training includes The New CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah Conservatory and the Summer Vocology Institute (SVI) at the University of Utah under the direction of the esteemed Ingo Titze. Harts is a standing member of the Musical Theatre Educators Association (MTEA), National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), National Association for Music Education (NAfME), Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA), and the Voice Foundation.
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