JEANNE ROBISON
Voice Area Coordinator
Voice, Opera Theater Director

Dr. Jeanne Robison, Voice Area Coordinator at Biola, received her bachelor's degree in music education and her master's degree in voice performance at Kent State University where she studied voice with Donna Pegors and opera with James Stuart. She continued her graduate studies, earning a doctor of musical arts degree in voice performance at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied opera direction under Italo Tajo and voice with Nancy Carr and Patricia Berlin.

Dr. Robison has sung numerous roles with college opera workshops and professional companies, including the Ohio Light Opera Company, Duluth-Superior Opera Association, Des Moines Metro Summer Opera Festival, and the CCM Opera Theatre and Opera Studio, and has performed with regional orchestras in Ohio, Mississippi, and Arkansas. In 1998 she sang the role of Donna Elvira in the Rome Festival's production of Don Giovanni, and The Queen of the Night with the Opera Festival di Roma, a role she reprised in 2001 with the Biola Opera Theater.

Dr. Robison has pioneered  opera programs at three universities including Delta State University, John Brown University, and Biola University. She began her directorial training at CCM where she served as an Assistant Director to renowned director and bass Italo Tajo, studied make-up with Lenna Kaleva, and costuming with W.K. Fauser. Dr. Robison  was the first doctoral vocal performance candidate at CCM to study opera direction and production as her secondary field, and was the first student to include direction as part of her doctoral lecture recital, Verdi as Stage Director. In 1990, she participated as a director in the Wesley Balk Institute. Dr. Robison has directed more than 25 productions including scenes from numerous operas, productions of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, The Mikado, and H.M.S. Pinafore; one-act operas including Menotti's The Telephone, The Medium, and The Old Maid and the Thief; Puccini's Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi; and since coming to Biola has mounted four Mozart classic's: Cosi fan tuttè, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute.

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