Millicent Daugherty - Voice

Millicent Daugherty has been teaching voice since 1969 at Graceland University, Park University, the Metropolitan Community Colleges, as well as at Music/Arts Institute ®.

Highlights of Daugherty's concert appearances include: the American premier of Handel's Julius Ceasar under the baton of Nicola Rescigno of La Scala; Hugo Wolf's Italianishes Lieder Book for UMKC Faculty Recital Series; international broadcasts on television and radio of eleven solo performances of Messiah; and numerous solo roles for THE VOICE OF AMERICA. Her reviewed concerts have been hailed by critics as "stellar" and "memorable" and her voice "as clear as a crystal bell."

Daugherty's vocal and pedagogical education includes extensive study at the Conservatories of Music of both Oberlin College and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is in constant demand to serve as Vocal Clinician for area universities, the Missouri Music Educators and the American Choral Directors conventions. She comes to her duties as Vocal Division Chair of MAI® ® with a rich performance background in strings, piano/organ, winds and percussion as well as voice.

Her high school students are regularly chosen for district, state, regional and national choirs of the American Choral Directors.

Her students have received numerous prestigious awards and scholarships at schools of music such as: Oberlin, Eastman, Julliard, New England Conservatory, Yale, Northwestern and Simpson College. Many have gone on to become professional performers and/or teachers both in the United States and Europe.

Mrs. Daugherty is a member of the Board of the George Caleb Bingham Academy of the Arts, and was recently awarded the premiere honor as Master Educator by the Cultural Arts Coalition (2001). She serves as President-Emerita of Music/Arts Institute®, which she co-founded in 1979.

Her national music affiliations include the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Music Educators National Conference (MENC), and Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI).