CV (2000):  Lorraine D. Sposato-Allen
Education - Teaching Experience - Publications & Papers - Memberships - Work Experience

Education:
Ph.D. Musicology “ABD” – comprehensive exams completed October 1996,
University of Georgia (UGA).
Dissertation topic: "Shakespearomanie and Richard Wagner: The Influence of Shakespeare and German Shakespeare Criticism on Der Ring des Nibelungen."
Voice study with David Stoffel; piano study with Ivan Frazier. 20 additional graduate hours in Art History.
M.A. Musicology, University of Georgia, 1993.
Thesis: Idea in Schoenberg’s Erwartung.
Voice study with Shirley Brumbaugh, piano study with Ivan Frazier.
B.M. Vocal Performance, 1990, cum laude, West Georgia College.
Voice study with Larry Frazier, Inge Manski-Lundeen; piano study with George Mann.
A.B., A.A. Business, 1979, and Humanities, 1972, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, N.Y.

Teaching Experience:
1998 University of Georgia – Adjunct Faculty: Instructor of Opera Literature (senior
and graduate level)
State University of West Georgia – Faculty: Instructor of Music Appreciation
1996-2000 Floyd College, Rome, Ga. – Faculty: Instructor of Music Appreciation, Chorus,
and Instrumental Ensemble.
1992-1995 University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. – Graduate Assistant: Instructor of Music
Appreciation, 10 academic quarters (sophomore level). All duties including
course design, selection of text and supplementary materials, lectures, testing,
grading.
1995 University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. – Director of Collegium Musicum, spring
quarter. All duties including selection of repertoire (16th-century madrigals by
Lassus, Gesualdo, Monteverdi, etc.), rehearsals and conducting, publicity and
program notes, and performance.
1989 West Georgia College, Carrollton, Ga. – Assistant to Faculty Director in Opera
Workshop production of The Marriage of Figaro. Assisted with direction,
notation, and prompting of cues, blocking, diction, and acting of student cast, as
well as conducting duties.

Publications and Professional Papers:
1998 Essay “Shakespeare and Music” in The Reader’s Guide to Music: History,
Criticism, Theory (Fitzroy Dearborn, Fall 1998)
Paper on Schoenberg’s Erwartung read at February 1998 regional meeting of the
College Music Society

Professional Memberships:
American Musicological Society – Student Representative to the National Conference, 1997;
American Conference on Romanticism; College Music Society; Georgia Music Teacher’s
Association
Awards and Scholarships:
1997 Pi Kappa Lambda National Honor Society
1995 Almonte Howell Award for Musicology, University of Georgia
1990-1995 Graduate Assistantships, University of Georgia Music Dept. and University-wide
1994 Director’s Excellence Award, University of Georgia
1991 Supplemental Assistantship Merit Award, University of Georgia
1988 Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, Gordon Watson Award (for highest
GPA), Music Faculty Award (highest cumulative GPA), West Georgia College
1988-1990 Scholarships, West Georgia College, Music Dept. and WGC Foundation
1987-1990 Dean’s List, all quarters inclusive, West Georgia College
Performing Experience:
1996 University of Georgia: Director of Collegium Musicum
1991-1994 University of Georgia: Collegium Musicum, member of both viola da gamba
(with Tom Riis) and vocal ensembles
1990 West Georgia College: Senior Voice Recital; performance with faculty of
Brahms’s Liebeslieder Walzer; Concert Choir performing tour (Austria/Hungary)
1988-1989 West Georgia College: Junior Voice Recital, Collegium Musicum viola da
gamba ensemble
1987-1990 West Georgia College: Concert Choir, solo vocalist with Jazz Ensemble, mezzo-soprano
roles in Opera Workshop scenes from Bizet’s Carmen, Mozart’s The
Magic Flute, Menotti’s The Medium.
Prior to 1987 Solo vocalist, pop/light jazz band, and guitarist and solo vocalist, private clubs in Syracuse and Upstate New York

Program Coordinator-Related Work Experience:
Press releases and interviews/articles for all events of University of Georgia Music Department, Athens, GA, 1990-1993
Corporate, business, and industry “cold calls,” organizing and running planning meetings,
supervising volunteers, public speaking to large groups of employees, troubleshooting on the day of blood drive as Recruitment Coordinator for American Red Cross Blood Donor Resources, Atlanta, GA, 1986-7 and 1989
Press releases, media interviews, supervising employees, running committee meetings, reporting to Boards of Directors as Director of the Chenango Craftmen’s Co-operative, Norwich, NY, 1985-6
Performance scheduling, publicity, collecting admission, selling refreshments, and concert
supervision as Director of Rainbow’s End Coffeehouse, Norwich, NY, 1984-5