Alison Acord is Chair and Professor of Voice at Miami University of Ohio. As a singer, Alison has been heard in more than 40 operatic roles in the United States and abroad. Her repertoire centered on leading roles such as Lady Billows, Alice Ford, Mimì, Micaëla, Countess, Hanna Glawari, Fiordiligi, and Ariadne. As a recitalist she received prestigious grants in the United States and Austria to lecture and perform songs of living composers. Dr. Acord earned her Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from Baylor University. As a Corbett winner, she went on to earn a Master of Music, Artist Diploma, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where she was a student of Barbara Honn’s. Alison would later produce the selective Barbara Honn voice teaching seminars for over ten years. Dr. Acord’s students are highly regarded and enjoy great success. They are heard in opera and musical venues across the world from Broadway to Berlin to the Metropolitan Opera. They routinely place as finalists and winners in a variety of regional and international competitions and participate in prestigious young artist programs and summer music festivals such as International Meistersinger Akademie, Verbier Festival, Metropolitan Opera Guild, Chautauqua, AIMS, Santa Fe, Aspen, Central City, and Tanglewood. During the summers Alison teaches for the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, where her work is focused on young professional and graduate singers.
Alison Acord is Resident Faculty at the Schmidt Vocal Institute.