Rate My Professor Candice Aipperspach

Aipperspach holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University (2019), with a lecture recital titled “Antimilitaristic Reactions to 9/11: An Analytical Performance Guide to Ned Rorem’s Aftermath”; a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech (2017); a Ph.D. in Fine Arts (Musicology) from Texas Tech (2013), with dissertation “Brundibár: An American Afterlife, 1975-1995,” focusing on performance-based research, vocal studies, children’s opera, and Holocaust studies; a Master of Music in Church Music (Music History) from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (2007); a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance cum laude from Ouachita Baptist University (2004); and an Associate of Arts in Music (Voice) from Central Baptist College (2001). An active soprano performer, she has appeared as Fantine in Les Misérables with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, and many other roles in operas and musicals. She has directed productions including Footloose the Musical, Shrek the Musical, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and served as assistant stage director at Music in the Marche in Italy. Aipperspach has earned Level 2 Certification in Somatic Voicework and is affiliated with the National Association of Teachers of Singing.