Responsibilities:
• Director-At-Large (Academic Classical Voice Liaison)
Barbara Dunn-Prosser’s performing career is a versatile one. She has appeared opposite Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Donna Elvira in Rhombus Media’s award-winning film of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. She has toured southern Ontario with her one woman show, Come to the Woods, about pioneer artist and writer Anne Langton. Barbara has been a featured soloist with symphony orchestras across North America and has performed solo operatic roles in regional theatres. She spent several seasons with the Canadian Opera Company and was a member of both the acting and musical companies of the Stratford Festival. Barbara has performed in the ensemble and as Carlotta in both the touring and Toronto companies of The Phantom of the Opera. In 2002 she released her CD “Till We Meet Again”.Recently, Barbara has written three one-woman shows, Lest We Forget, Roses and Thorns and You Must Remember This, based on historical data and people from the village of Fenelon Falls.
Barbara holds an M.A. and a B.Ed. from Queen’s University in Kingston, is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto in voice and piano, a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and a festivals adjudicator. With her colleague, Susan Ambrose, Barbara revised the 2012 Voice Syllabus and compiled the repertoire for Resonance: A Comprehensive Voice Series.Barbara is a professor emeritus of the University of Western Ontario and currently has a private voice and piano studio in Stratford, Ontario.
