Rate My Professor Candice Aipperspach

Dr. Candice Aipperspach is an Associate Professor of Music in the Division of Music at Ouachita Baptist University, where she has been teaching since Fall 2022. Her courses include Studio Voice, Opera Workshop, and Vocal Diction. Previously, she served as Vocal Coordinator and Associate Professor of Music at East Texas Baptist University from 2020 to 2022, and as Assistant Professor of Music there from 2018 to 2020. Earlier appointments include Assistant Professor of Voice at South Plains College from 2015 to 2018, Instructor of Fine Arts (Voice) from 2012 to 2015, and various part-time instructor roles at South Plains College and Texas Tech University from 2008 to 2012. She has also guest lectured at Texas Tech University on topics such as the minuet and trio form, concerto, and Haydn’s The Creation.

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.