Sarah Daughtrey

About

Dr. Sarah Daughtrey, mezzo-soprano, serves as Voice Area Coordinator, BA Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Music at New Mexico State University, teaching courses in Vocal Diction, Vocal Pedagogy and Literature, as well as applied voice lessons. Dr. Daughtrey received the DM in Vocal Performance and Literature from the prestigious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where she studied with world-renowned soprano Patricia Wise. She earned the BA in Vocal Performance from Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, and pursued graduate studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she was a Knoxville Opera Company Apprentice performing in the Educational Outreach program, and performed several roles with the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre, including Ottavia in Monteverdis The Coronation of Poppea. She released a new album, A Touch of Blue, in March on the Centaur Records label, featuring works for voice, saxophone and piano. The album includes the premiere recording of Marius Flothuiss cycle on poems from Langston Hughes, Negro Lament. With her string colleagues at NMSU, she traveled to Mexico in 2022 to perform vocal chamber works at the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, and at the prestigious Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Prof. Daughtrey most recently served for two terms as District Governor for the Rio Grande area of NATS, and is former president of both the Rio Grande and Allegheny Mountain Chapters.

Education & Qualifications

DM in Vocal Performance and Literature from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, BA in Vocal Performance from Austin Peay State University, Graduate studies at University of Tennessee Knoxville

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