Voice Department

Flint School of Performing Arts

Voice Department

Sylvia Pittman, Chair

(ext. 254), Voice, Early Childhood Music and Piano, Instructor; Voice Department Chair; Flint Festival Youth Chorus Director; Flint Jubilee Chorale Coordinator. B.M.E.D. (education), Northern Michigan University; M.M. (performance), University of Michigan. More than 18 years experience teaching private voice, public school and directing choirs. Performs vocal styles from jazz to opera. Works as a vocal coach for recording artists and is greatly sought as a studio musician.

Glen L. Holcomb

(ext. 134) Voice, Early Childhood Music, FSPA Saturday School Coordinator: M.M. (vocal performance) and M.A. (American Culture studies), Bowling Green State University; B.M. (vocal performance and general history), Marygrove College. He is the recipient of numerous awards in vocal competition throughout his academic career. Performed with Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Brazeal Dennard Chorale, Hostia and the Flint Jubilee Singers. He regularly performs a variety of recitals in Metro Detroit and Flint. Member, National Association of Teachers of Singing. Performing member, St. Cecilia Society.

Pamela Kimber

(ext. 248) Show Choir, Director: B. A. (education-fine arts) Michigan State University. 34 years of teaching experience in public schools in Michigan, California, and Australia. Dance teacher/choreographer for various ensembles including the Flint Neithercut Honors Choir. Music director of Atherton United Methodist Church. Choir director for community and church groups such as the “Show Tune Choir” from Hope UMC. Member of the Kearsley Park Players.

Nada Radakovich

(ext. 251), voice; M.A. in Opera Performance and B.M. in Vocal Performance, University of Michigan School of Music. Ms. Radakovich earned her living as a professional singer for 25 years in both the United States and Europe. She is co-author of the book, "Auditioning in the 21st Century". Nada completed two National Tours with Columbia Artists' Community Concerts series. A first prize winner of the International Mozart competition, Ms. Radakovich had the honor of studying with world renowned soprano, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf. She has had an extensive singing career, performing on stage, radio and television. Her coaching and teaching experience includes instruction at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, The Pingry School in Martinsville, NJ; the JCC's of Tenafly, Tarrytown and Nyack. Guest Lecturer-Master Classes at Mannes School of Music, New York, NY; Iona College, New Rochelle, NY; Altes Schloss, Grevenbroiche, Germany.

Pia Broden Williams

(ext. 258), Voice; M.M., Michigan State University (performance); B.M., University of Michigan (vocal performance); B.A., University of Michigan (philosophy). Soprano Pia Broden Williams is an active performer in both concert and theater stages. A frequent soloist with the Flint Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Williams was a featured soloist for the Holiday Pops Concert TV broadcasts in the 2007, 2008, and 2009 seasons. She has also been featured on the international broadcast of the Emmy-Award winning Huckleberry Radio Show. August, 2009, brought Ms. Williams to Arlington, VA, where she essayed the role of Adina in Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore. Also in 2009, Ms. Williams performed Madame Silberklang in Mozart’s The Impressario under the baton of David Mairs with the Flint Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, she made her European debut in concert appearances in Limonest, France where she sang highlights from Bernstein’s Westside Story, and the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Villa-Lobos. Williams captivated audiences in Graz, Austria with, among others, performances of Olympia from Les Contes D’Hoffman, Giulietta’s aria from Bellini’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi, and as a semi-finalist in the annual Meistersinger Vocal Competition. In the 2010-11 season, she sang soprano soloist for Mahler's Fourth Symphony with the Flint Symphony Orchestra. She made her debut in New York with the Regina Opera in Brooklyn in Les Contes d'Hoffman, appearing as Olympia.

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