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Elizabeth Momand

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Elizabeth Momand

Professor of Music

Music and Theatre

Biography

Degree Major Emphasis/Program Name Institution Year
DMA Vocal Performance University of Texas at Austin 2001
M.M. Vocal Performance Mississippi College 1990
B.M. Vocal Performance Mississippi College 1986

 


A native Mississippian, Professor Elizabeth Blanton Momand received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in vocal performance from Mississippi College in Clinton and her Doctorate of Musical Arts in vocal performance from the University of Texas at Austin. As a soprano soloist, Momand has performed numerous oratorio roles with orchestra including Mozart’s C Minor Mass, Vesperae solonnes de confessore, and Requiem;  Handel’s Messiah; Bach’s St. John Passion; Vivaldi’s Gloria;  Rutter’s Requiem; and Orff’s Carmina Burana. At the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith, Dr. Momand teaches voice and voice-related subjects and directs the Opera and Musical Theatre Workshop. Her students have been state, regional, national, and international winners of singing competitions and scholarships and have been admitted to prestigious graduate programs and summer festivals around the world. 

Included in the honors Momand has received for her academic work and teaching are a fellowship for a year of study in Germany, a fellowship for travel and study in former East Germany, a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for travel and study in India, the UAFS Lucille Speakman Master Teacher Award, and the Speakman Fellowship for Research in Teaching Award.  She has presented her research on the songs of women composers at state, regional, national, and international conferences including the College Music Society, the International Alliance for Women in Music, the International Trombone Festival, the International Women’s Brass Association, the International Hispanic Heritage Festival, and the Music by Women Festival. Recently two of her compositions were premiered at the International Trombone Festival. Dr. Momand is immediate past-president of the South Central Chapter of the College Music Society and served on the board of directors for the International Association for Women in Music. She has served in many leadership position in the Arkansas Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and serves as an accreditation visitor for the National Association of Schools of Music. Her passion for teaching stems from her own desire for life-long learning and her strong belief in the power of music to transform lives. She ends every class by imploring her students to “go out and conquer the world with love, peace, and kindness, because we need so much more of it in the world.”