Glenn Morton
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mortong@newschool.edu
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Glenn Morton is a vocal coach and teacher of Italian diction at Mannes School of Music at The New School and Manhattan School of Music. He also teaches Song Interpretation at Mannes, focusing on French mélodie and German lieder.
For over 25 years he has worked with opera companies throughout the United States as an assistant conductor, program director and diction coach in French and Italian. These include Santa Fe Opera, Opera Company of Boston, Opera Delaware, Sarasota Opera, Tulsa Opera and New Orleans Opera. As a pianist, he collaborated on two recordings for Opus Records: Massenet Song Cycles and Dvorak Song Cycles.
He received his formal training at the Hartt School of Music in Piano Performance, and Manhattan School of Music in Collaborative Piano. Most recently he served as the Italian diction coach for the Manhattan of School Music Opera Theater, Opera Lyra, Ottawa, and Glimmerglass Opera.
In 2009 he established La Lingua della Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy, where he serves as the Artistic Director. He is the co-Artistic Director of L’Art du Chant Français along with Stéphane Sénéchal in the Périgord region of France. He is also the president of Classic Lyric Arts, a non-profit corporation supporting young singers and pianists pursuing international studies in vocal music.