KU School of Music announces new Assistant Professor of Voice

The University of Kansas School of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Courtney Fletcher as Assistant Professor of Voice.

Known for her “smooth” and “seamless” voice (Bay View Music Association) and her “razor-sharp comedic chops” (Ned Canty- Opera Memphis), Dr. Courtney J. Fletcher is a sought-after performer and teacher of the vocal arts. “I am thrilled to be joining the esteemed faculty at University of Kansas' School of Music,” says Dr. Fletcher. “I am excited to collaborate with students and faculty and continue the great legacy of KU singing!”

Her 2022 performance highlights include Mozart’s Requiem (Memphis Symphony Orchestra and Rhodes College), Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (New West Symphony), Dorabella in Così fan tutte (Opera Memphis) and traveling to Prague, Czech Republic, as a participant in Opernfest Prague, where she sang with Prague’s National Theatre Orchestra. Her operatic roles span all musical eras and include Laurene Powell Jobs (The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Lazuli (L'Étoile),and Angelina (La Cenerentola), Bertarido (Rodelinda), Paula (Florencia en el Amazonas), Jade Boucher (Dead Man Walking), and Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly). She is an avid supporter of newly-composed music and has sung in premieres and workshops by Grammy Award-winning composers Terence Blanchard and Tobias Picker, Robert Patterson, Shulamit Ran, and Matthew Recio. 

As an instructor, Dr. Fletcher teaches classical, musical theater, jazz, pop, and folk singers of all ages. She worked as an Applied Faculty member at Rhodes College from 2021-2023, where she taught voice, music theory, and opera. In 2022, she was also chosen as one of twelve young teachers from across the United States and Canada to participate in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program. Dr. Fletcher graduated from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music with a Doctor of Music in Voice degree with a minor in Music Theory, where she studied with Professor Emerita Mary Ann Hart.