Elise Gutshall
Voice

Dr. Elise Gutshall is a native of Hamilton, Missouri. She received degrees in 2000 and 2003 from Northwest Missouri State University and the UMKC Conservatory of Music, respectively. In 2006, she earned a Doctorate of Arts in Music from the University of Mississippi, her research focusing primarily on vocal pedagogy and performance. Her studies included an internship with The Voice Care Associates of Memphis, Tennessee and interdisciplinary work with the Ole Miss Communicative Disorders Department, focusing on pathological disorders of the voice.

Dr. Gutshall has performed leading roles with the University of Mississippi Opera Department and Inspiration Point Opera in Eureka Springs, AR. These productions include The Ballad of Baby Doe, Into the Woods, Die Zauberflöte, The Mikado, Tartuffe, Martha, and Le Nozze di Figaro. In 2007, she received an honorary scholarship from Rotary International to study at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, New Zealand. There she researched, under the tutelage of world-renown Brahmsian scholar Inge van Rij, the lied of Richard Strauss and Johannes Brahms. During her studies in Wellington, she performed with the New Zealand Light Opera as Stella and Antonia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann opposite international tenor, Patrick Power. Additionally, she performed with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra as a finalist in New Zealand’s National Aria and Art Song Competition, placing second in the Lied and English Art Song divisions. While in New Zealand, Dr. Gutshall performed as a recitalist and was invited by the New Zealand School of Music to formally present her dissertation findings as a part of the Professionals Lecture Series at Victoria University of Wellington.

Dr. Gutshall continues to perform as a recitalist and clinician regionally and nationally.