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Deborah Kent is Assistant Professor
of Music and Director of Music at Howard Community College, where her duties
include overseeing a part-time faculty of over twenty, serving as advisor
to music students, directing the HCC Singers and teaching voice and related
activities. She received the BM in Theory/Composition and MM in Vocal
Performance from Mississippi College and the DMA in Vocal Performance from
the Peabody Conservatory of Music. A dramatic soprano who has performed
concert and operatic literature from the seventeenth century through today,
she considers Verdi, Puccini and Wagner specialties, as well as more intimate
art song literature. She has been heard in concerts and solo recitals
in the greater Baltimore/Washington area.
Prior to moving to Maryland to pursue studies at Peabody, she served as College Division President of Mississippi Music Educators Association and as Student Chapter Advisor at Northwest Mississippi Community College, the only community college MENC chapter in the state at that time. During her term as President, most of her efforts were directed towards promoting dialogue and coursework articulation between music departments in Mississippi institutions of higher learning and increasing student participation in MMEA events. She is currently serving as president of Council for Higher Education in Music (CHEM), president of the Peabody Chapter of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association, and is an active member of National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). |