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Lisa Ericksen

Educational Credentials

M.M., Performance, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University
B.M., Music Education, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Biography

Lisa Ericksen studied Vocal Performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music for both her bachelor’s degree and doctoral work. She received her master’s degree from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University. In addition to her degree work, Lisa has earned her level two certification in Contemporary Commercial Vocal Pedagogy from Shenandoah Conservatory and took part in a training seminar, Care of the Professional Voice at the University of Michigan. Lisa is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Music and Theatre Departments at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University and an Adjunct Professor at Wright State University in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures.

Ericksen began her career as a classical singer who performed extensively in the United States and Europe. She has performed leading operatic and concert roles with Baltimore Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Virginia Opera, Tel Aviv Symphony Orchestra, Concert Opera of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Baroque, Whitewater/Sorg Operas, Handel Society of Baltimore, the National Bulgarian Radio Orchestra, Piccola LaScala Opera, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Sanibel Island Music Festival, Pennsylvania Ballet and concerts at Lincoln Center. She has performed in touring productions of Rigoletto (Gilda), Don Giovanni (Zerlina) and The Magic Flute (Pamina, The Queen of the Night) in France, Germany, Spain and Portugal. She was the soprano soloist in productions of Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Requiem and Chopin’s Lady of the Camelias with the Cincinnati Ballet at the Aronoff Center. She is a winner of the Liederkranz Foundation Awards and the Licia Albanese/Puccini Foundations Awards in New York. She also was the second place winner in the Baltimore Opera/Vocal Competition.

As a musical theatre artist, Ericksen has performed the role of Carlotta in Bell/Tchaikovsky’s Phantom of the Opera and in productions of Lady in the Dark and Sweet Adeline for City Centers Encores! in New York City. Lisa performed the roles of Charlotte in A Little Night Music with New Stage Collective and Woman 1 in Side by Side by Sondheim with Commonwealth Theatre Company. She was a principal performer in an internet commercial for Downy fabric softener.

Ericksen had the honor of teaching in Beijing, China during the summer of 2018 with three of her colleagues from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She taught the Musical Theatre Voice Class.

Ericksen’s current or former voice students have performed on Broadway in & Juliet (OBC)*, Cabaret (Revival), The Great Gatsby (OBC), Hamilton, Paradise Square (OBC), Rent, Shucked (OBC), Some Like It Hot (OBC), Spamalot, Les Miserables, The Heart of Rock and Roll (OBC), Titanic, A New Brain; Off Broadway; in National Equity tours (Come From Away, Hamilton, Beautiful, Book of Mormon, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, Joseph and the Amazing…, Kinky Boots-American, Chinese & Australian tours, Mamma Mia, Mary Poppins, Million Dollar Quartet, Once on this Island, Something’s Rotten, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Wedding Singer, The Wizard of Oz & Shrek), Regional theatre (Equity), Disney, numerous cruise lines, non-Equity tours and summer stock companies throughout the country. Two of her private students have been on the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúboard Top 100 Rock and Pop charts and #1 on the Alt Radio Chart.

*(OBC) Original Broadway Cast