Robert C. White, Jr. holds a B.S. in Music from Susquehanna University, and M.A. and Ed.D. degrees from Columbia University with concentration in Vocal Pedagogy. Additional voice study in Florence, Italy. He has previously taught at Queens College and McGill University and is co-author, with Ruth Lakeway, of Italian Art Song, Indiana University Press, 1989. He has authored articles on voice pedagogy, vocal repertory and opera for Journal of Voice, American Music Teacher, Music Educators Journal and the Metropolitan Opera Guild publications. He has given recitals, lecture-recitals and master classes in the New York metropolitan area (e.g., for the Voice Foundation Symposium), Tampa, Florida (NATS), Louisville, Kentucky (MENC), Princeton (Westminster Choir College), Switzerland and Germany. His students sing with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Paris Opera Comique, Vienna Staatsoper, Berlin Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper, La Scala (Milan), regional European and American theaters, as well as on Broadway. Dr. White is a member of the American Academy of Teachers of Singing.