Dr. Harry N. Dunstan - Tenor; Teacher; Musicologist; Coach; Accompanist; Translator; Lecturer; Synthesist and Integrator of Music, Language, and Culture - is the co-founder of the Arcadia Vocal Academy and The Founding Artistic Director of The American Center for Puccini Studies. (Read more at PucciniAmerica.org)
Dr. Dunstan has sung with major regional orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. He is a performer who looks forward toward authentic, historically informed performances, and he is equally at home on the opera, concert, or recital stage.
Dr. Dunstan has over 30 years of college and university teaching experience, from serving as the head of the Applied Music Institute at Montgomery College to Lecturer and Voice Instructor at the Catholic University of America. A graduate of CUA, he received his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology "with distinction" and his Masters in Italian Literature.
Dr. Dunstan is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the life, works, and performing practices of Giacomo Puccini, and is internationally recognized for his contribution to Puccini scholarship. Dr. Dunstan is a frequent lecturer at major universities and acts as a consultant to opera companies worldwide. As a Synthesist and Integrator of Music, Language, and Cultures, he is an innovative lecturer and teacher, promoting the Arts as a Cultural Collective by which we pursue the immensity of the human spirit.
Dr. Dunstan has sung with major regional orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. He is a performer who looks forward toward authentic, historically informed performances, and he is equally at home on the opera, concert, or recital stage.
Dr. Dunstan has over 30 years of college and university teaching experience, from serving as the head of the Applied Music Institute at Montgomery College to Lecturer and Voice Instructor at the Catholic University of America. A graduate of CUA, he received his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology "with distinction" and his Masters in Italian Literature.
Dr. Dunstan is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the life, works, and performing practices of Giacomo Puccini, and is internationally recognized for his contribution to Puccini scholarship. Dr. Dunstan is a frequent lecturer at major universities and acts as a consultant to opera companies worldwide. As a Synthesist and Integrator of Music, Language, and Cultures, he is an innovative lecturer and teacher, promoting the Arts as a Cultural Collective by which we pursue the immensity of the human spirit.
Kay Krekow - Soprano, Teacher, Accompanist - is the co-founder of The Arcadia Vocal Academy and Managing Director of The American Center for Puccini Studies (read more at PucciniAmerica.org). She is an acclaimed interpreter of the operatic heroines of Puccini and has sung performances from the Czech Republic and Italy to Strathmore and the Kennedy Center.
Ms. Krekow is specialist in the music of women composers and, as a graduate of Stephens College, the second oldest women's college in America, she is proud to present her popular program, She Is Music: a thousand years of vocal music by women composers (read more about her one-woman program at SheIsMusic.com).
Ms. Krekow's teaching experience spans the gamut from a decade of working with middle school music programs to serving as a voice instructor at the Catholic University of America. She has served as an adjudicator for the State of Maryland Scholarship Committee and has mentored dozens of talented young women pursuing careers in music. Ms. Krekow is also an accomplished pianist and serves as the principal accompanist for Arcadia and American Center for Puccini Studies programs.
Ms. Krekow is specialist in the music of women composers and, as a graduate of Stephens College, the second oldest women's college in America, she is proud to present her popular program, She Is Music: a thousand years of vocal music by women composers (read more about her one-woman program at SheIsMusic.com).
Ms. Krekow's teaching experience spans the gamut from a decade of working with middle school music programs to serving as a voice instructor at the Catholic University of America. She has served as an adjudicator for the State of Maryland Scholarship Committee and has mentored dozens of talented young women pursuing careers in music. Ms. Krekow is also an accomplished pianist and serves as the principal accompanist for Arcadia and American Center for Puccini Studies programs.