Constance Chase

Adjunct Instructor of Music
Voice Workshop, Applied Voice

Constance Chase leads an active professional life in New York and Connecticut as a performer, voice teacher, conductor and author. A lyric soprano and accomplished soloist in recital and chamber works, Ms. Chase has also performed and served as rehearsal assistant with The Riverside Choral Society in New York City, Patrick Gardner, Director, most notably in its critically acclaimed Mostly Mozart Festival appearances under the direction of Louis Langree, Nicholas McGegan and Gerard SchwarzShe is co-author with Shirlee Emmons of Prescriptions for Choral Excellence, Oxford University Press (2006).

Currently in her ninth year as director of the Cadet Glee Club of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Ms. Chase has overseen its growth from thirty to eighty members and restored to the choir its national reputation.

Ms. Chase holds the B.M., magna cum laude, in music education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the M.A. in Voice Performance from Hunter College, City University of New York, where she studied with Shirlee Emmons, and Zertifikat in German language studies from Goethe Institute, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. She was named to Pi Kappa Lambda as an undergraduate music student and won the Agnes M. Duffy Prize upon completion of Masters degree studies at Hunter College. She is a member of ACDA (American Choral Directors Association), Chorus America, NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing), and currently serves as Secretary of the NATS Connecticut chapter.

Contact: chasec@wcsu.edu