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Anne Gross
Assistant Professor - Vocal/Choral

Room 334, Swope Music Building
Phone: 610-436-2435
agross@wcupa.edu

Education
D.M.A., University of Michigan
M.M., Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Curriculum Vitae

Anne Gross, who has been praised for her exquisite tone, excellent breath control and enjoyable stage presence, is a polished performer who delights audiences with her musicality and sense of humor. Ms. Gross recently completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in voice performance at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she studied with Shirley Verrett, known around the world for her operatic performances. During her studies there Ms. Gross coached extensive song and operatic repertoire with renowned collaborative pianist Martin Katz, performing on many of his students’ recitals. She joined Martin Katz to record the audio examples for his book The Complete Collaborator: The Pianist as Partner, published in May 2009.

Opera and operetta roles include Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte, Adina in The Elixir of Love, Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, Sophie in Werther, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Sister Constance in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Monica in The Medium, Lucy in The Telephone, Miss Pinkerton in The Old Maid and the Thief, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Rose Maybud in Ruddigore, Margot in The Desert Song.

An avid musical theatre performer, Ms. Gross has created and performed several solo cabarets, including Hot and Cole Running Porter – The Life and Music of Cole Porter and A Taste of Love: An Evening of Jazz. She was a founding member of Showstoppers, a theater company presenting musical revues on Boston’s South Shore and has performed in numerous musical theater cabarets.

Ms. Gross has sung solo recitals on various concert series in Michigan, Louisiana, Virginia, Washington, D.C, Massachusetts and Ohio. She has been a favorite soloist with the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, presenting such diverse works as J.S. Bach's Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten and Robert Kapilow's Green Eggs and Ham and Gertrude McFuzz. Ms. Gross’ international career includes solo performances in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and Havana, Cuba, where she performed music of Jose Maria Vitier, accompanied by the composer. Among her oratorio performances are numerous cantatas of J. S. Bach as well as the Mass in B Minor and the St. John and St. Matthew Passions, Missa Cubana (Vitier), Brahms’ Requiem, Haydn’s Paukenmesse. Future engagements include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and JS Bach’s Kaffee-Kantata at the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival 2010.

Prior to beginning her university teaching career, Ms. Gross served as the United Kingdom administrator for the African Children's Choir, a non-profit ecumenical choir; she also acted as tour director and musical supervisor of the choir in North America, Europe, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Ms. Gross has taught voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance (as a graduate student instructor), Spring Arbor University, and Eastern Mennonite University. She is currently serving on the voice faculty of West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Ms. Gross also chairs the voice department, teaches private lessons and directs the opera workshop class at Belvoir Terrace, a performing arts camp for girls ages eight to sixteen, located near Tanglewood in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.

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