Melanie Fuhrmann

Melanie Fuhrmann has taught private voice lessons for fourteen of the last twenty years. Currently she is the Voice Department Chair at the Adler Institute of Music in Libertyville, IL. She is also a private voice instructor at Antioch Community High School. Prior to this, Melanie taught voice at Old Dominion University’s Community Music Academy. She has kept a relatively small voice studio over the years due to her varied performance schedule and family priorities.

Choral music is Melanie biggest passion; she has spent most of her singing career in choral ensembles, or as a soloist for choral ensembles and orchestras. She has completed her fifth season in the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Prior to her time with this chorus, she sang professionally within the Hawai’i Vocal Arts Ensemble, the Virginia Symphony Chorus and the Virginia Opera Chorus.

Oratorios as featured Soprano have included works by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bernstein and other composers. Melanie has performed roles in productions such as Solomon, The Mikado, Le Nozze di Figaro and The Sound of Music. She has sung and danced for Busch Gardens - The Old Country (VA) and Shakespeare In the Park (TX and touring seven states). In Hawai’i she was a contract singer for weddings for tourists at the rate of 25 - 45 weddings per month.

As a church soloist, Melanie has worked at churches in every city of residence, and encourages her students to gain experience performing as a soloist in churches as well. She has served as a church choir director and a substitute conductor. Locally she occasionally substitutes on the piano and organ.

Melanie Fuhrmann holds a Master of Music in Voice Performance from Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Music in Applied Voice from Adrian (MI) College.