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Martha Randall
Lecturer, Voice & Vocal Pedagogy
Voice/Opera Division
B.M., M.M., University of Kansas, Fulbright Scholar
Soprano Martha Randall teaches voice and voice pedagogy at the University of Maryland School of Music where she has established a mobile pedagogy lab for acoustic analysis of the voice. She received her B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Kansas and continued study in Munich on a Fulbright Scholarship. She has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Constitution Hall, and the Phillips Gallery, and performed with the National Symphony, The Washington Bach Consort, Kansas City Philharmonic, Washington Civic Opera, and Opera Theater of Northern Virginia.
Ms. Randall is currently Past President of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), having completed her term as President in July of 2008. She will be Director of the NATS Intern Program in 2009 and 2010. She has also served as National Vice President for Membership, Chapter President, District Governor, and Regional Governor. She was a member of the Pedagogy Committee for the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) for four years. At the 2000 NATS Convention, she presented "Pedagogy: Low Tech, High Creativity," in 2003 was a panelist at the NATS Winter Workshop, in 2004, she was a master teacher for the Westminster Choir College of Rider University Master Teacher and Singers, a master teacher for the NATS Intern Program in 2007, and has presented workshops in classical voice for the Voice Foundation in 2005, 2006, and 2008.
Ms. Randall was awarded the Rosa Ponselle "Teacher of the Year 2000" distinction by the Rosa Ponselle Foundation, and in 2002 she was nominated by her students for the University of Maryland "Outstanding Faculty of the Year" award. Recent & current students include a Fulbright Scholar, Gold, Silver and Bronze Medallion winners in the Ponselle Competition, 3rd prize in the Inter-Atlantic Music Foundation's International Competition for Young Opera Singers (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), and winners in the Vocal Arts 2003-2004 Discovery Series. She has had students at Glimmerglass, Central City, and on scholarship in Salzburg through the University of Miami.
Ms. Randall is faculty advisor for Mu Phi Epsilon and advisor to undergraduate Voice students. She is an active adjudicator and clinician, specializing in vocal pedagogy and vocal health.
