Interim Co-Director of the School of Music
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor of Voice
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
P: 225.578.2645
F: 225.578.2562
E: lbade1@lsu.edu
Lori Bade has served as Professor of Voice at LSU since 1993 and Area Coordinator for the Vocal Arts Area from 1999 - 2007. Dr. Bade is currently the Interim Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Music. She was recently selected as the recipient of the Nell S. And Boyd H. McMullan Distinguished Professorship in Music and, in 2007, received the LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award for outstanding teaching and research and/or service. In addition, she twice received the “Tiger Excellence in Teaching Award” by Louisiana State University (1997 and 2005) as well as the “Outstanding Young Graduate Award” from Texas Lutheran University (1996).
As a performing artist, Ms. Bade brings a history of great successes from throughout the South, Southwest, Washington state and Europe. She has achieved critical acclaim for her “fine voice, well produced with even tone and vibrato...” as well as “pure vocal beauty, who has a resplendent, coppery instrument whose ripe ‘Earth Mother’ low register has no hint of growly chest tones.” She has appeared with numerous opera companies including the Austin Lyric, New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, Spokane, and Shreveport Opera. Ms. Bade has performed as mezzo soprano soloist singing major concert works of J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Duruflé, Handel, Haydn, Mahler, Mozart, Rutter, Tippett and Vaughan Williams with such orchestras as the Austin, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Flagstaff, Santa Fe, Memphis, Virginia, Rapides, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, Pensacola, University of Chicago, and Louisiana Philharmonic.
Recent operatic engagements include the roles of Rebecca Nurse in THE CRUCIBLE (Mobile Opera); Suzuki in MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Pensacola Opera) and Alisa in LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR with the New Orleans Opera Association. Recent concert appearances as mezzo soprano soloist include a world premiere of A PROCESSION OF SEASONS by Stephen Paulus, a commission for mezzo soprano soloist and chorus, by the Canterbury Choral Society and Oklahoma City Philharmonic for the state of Oklahoma Centennial Celebration; Maurice Duruflé’s REQUIEM (Canterbury Choral Society/Oklahoma City Philharmonic); Mahler’s SYMPHONY NO. 2 and Michael Tippett’s A CHILD OF OUR TIME (Victoria Bach Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Victoria and Austin, TX); Handel’s MESSIAH (Austin and Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestras); and Beethoven’s SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Pensacola Symphony Orchestra).
Dr. Bade has appeared as guest soloist and clinician at the Il Festival Internacional de Música da UFPI in Teresina, Brazil and will return to Salzburg, Austria for five weeks during the Summer of 2008 as Guest Artist/Professor of Voice at the University of Miami, Salzburg Program, an overseas study program. In demand as a vocal recitalist Ms. Bade will collaborate with pianist, Mutsumi Moteki, to present recitals at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at Louisiana State University (January 2009).
Dr. Bade’s students have been winners at the District, Regional, and National Metropolitan Opera Competitions; at the National Association of Teachers of Singing competitions (state and regional levels) as well as the state NATSSA competition; and have held professional singing engagements and/or been placed in multiple apprentice programs including but not limited to the Merola Program with San Francisco Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Utah Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Sarasota Opera, Minnesota Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and Glimmerglass. Dr. Bade holds several personal singing honors and has been awarded prizes from the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, MacAllister Awards for Opera Singers, and the National Federation of Music Clubs. Ms. Bade holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance from The University of Texas at Austin and the Master of Arts degree in Vocal Pedagogy from The Ohio State University.
