Alison Acord

Dr. Alison Acord is a Professor of Voice and Chair of the Voice Area at Miami University. She also serves as the co-director of the Music Theatre minor.

As a performer, Alison has been heard in more than 40 operatic roles in the United States and abroad. She has received critical acclaim in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos. Her operatic repertoire encompasses roles such as Lady Billows, Alice Ford, Mimì, Micaëla, Countess, Hanna Glawari, and Fiordiligi. Alison has received prestigious grant awards in the United States and Europe for championing the work of living composers. The International School of Performing Arts, the Recording Industries' Music Performance Trust, the Grismer Fine Arts Fund, the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, and Doblinger Publishers Wien have all afforded opportunities to perform and lecture on composers living and writing art song in the United States, Moldova, Ukraine, Israel, Italy, Germany, Latvia, Belarus, Russia, Great Britain, and Austria.

Dr. Acord has taught on the faculty of Miami University of Ohio since 1999. As a Corbett Scholar, Alison earned the graduate degrees of Master of Music, Artist Diploma, and Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. While a student at CCM, Alison was a student of Barbara Honn’s and continues to organize teaching seminars for her.

Dr. Acord's students are highly regarded and enjoy great success. They are heard in opera and musical theater venues across the world, including Broadway and the Metropolitan Opera. They routinely place as finalists and winners in a variety of regional and international competitions, and participate in professional summer music festivals and young artist programs, such as International Meistersinger Akademie, Julliard, Chautauqua, Verbier, and Tanglewood. Since 2016, Alison has taught voice for the Schmidt Vocal Institute for talented high school singers, and since 2009, for the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.