Angelique Clay,

Assistant Professor - Voice

Some say you can never go back, but Angelique Clay has,
and she is creating a wonderful new space for herself in
the UK School of Music. After receiving both her master’s
and doctoral degrees here, Dr. Clay joined the faculty of
Oakwood College.

Recently she was hired to be the newest
member of the UK voice faculty, and she is being very well
received by UK students — including those in her Opera
Workshop class. Her students are abuzz with excitement!

In a recent interview, Dr. Clay described her approach
to the class: “I want my students to learn to focus on
process, as well as learn the fundamentals of acting and
stagecraft so that when they get to do a full opera they will
have an awareness of themselves, how they fit into the
production, and a sense of the stage and the audience.”

The class includes a return to the basics: working on spoken
monologues (stripping away the familiar structures of
music), stage combat, makeup, costuming, and awareness
techniques such as the Feldenkrais Method. The workshop
culminates in applying these perspectives to a staged
aria at the end of the semester.

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