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MARK MOLITERNO
Adjunct Instructor of Music (Voice)
D.M.A. Study, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
D.M.A. Study, Rutgers University
Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies
M.M., Opera, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
B.M., Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
Mozarteum, Salzburg (Sommerakademie)
Mr. Moliterno will teach:
- MUS 200: Intermediate Private Voice Lessons
- MUS 300: Advanced Private Voice Lessons
- MUS 400: Advanced Private Voice Lessons
Bass-Baritone Mark Moliterno has performed throughout the United Stated, Canada, Great Britain and the Far East, with the San Francisco Opera, Arizona Opera, Central City Opera, New York City Opera National Company, Santa Fe Opera, Tacoma Opera, and L.A. Music Theatre. He has starred in festival productions of Verdi’s Falstaff at the Banff Festival of the Arts and Albert Herring and Così fan Tutte at the Aldeburgh Festival. Among his most successful roles are: Falstaff in Falstaff, Escamillo in Carmen, Germont in La Traviata, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Marcello in La Bohème, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Leporello in Don Giovanni, and Falke in Die Fledermaus.
Mark Moliterno is a frequent soloist on the concert stage and has appeared with symphony orchestras nationwide. His concert repertoire covers a wide range of eras and composers. In New York’s Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, he appeared frequently as baritone soloist with the Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra in Händel’s Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Brahms’ Requiem, and Mozart’s Requiem and C-Minor Mass. He has twice appeared on the New York Philharmonic Chamber Music Series in Merkin Concert Hall, singing Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach and Charles Martin Loeffler’s Songs with Chamber Accompaniment. He has also been heard as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, The Honolulu Symphony, and the Toledo Symphony.
Mark Moliterno’s recital credits include an all-Mozart concert with Murray Perahia in Aldeburgh, England, the War Scenes of Ned Rorem (with the composer as pianist), and the world premiere of Drum Taps, a song cycle by American composer Richard Pearson Thomas at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. He has recorded Otto Leuning’s No Jerusalem But This for C.R.I. and is featured on the CD project Middle Voices: Chamber Music for Clarinet and Viola, singing music of Loeffler and J. Mark Scearce.
Since 1997, Mark Moliterno has developed a reputation of excellence as a teacher of singing. He has held faculty positions at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Bowling Green State University, and Indiana University. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Voice at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, NJ.
In addition, Mark is also a gifted yoga teacher, specializing in yoga for singers. Drawing upon his understanding of vocal physiology, breath mechanics, and the art of classic Hatha Yoga, Mark has developed a system of yoga practice specifically geared toward developing and improving the singer’s physical instrument. He has taught yoga for singers at the Pine Mountain Music Festival and at Westminster’s CoOPERAtive Program. During the school year, Mark also teaches yoga classes at Westminster in cooperation with the Counseling Services program and works privately as a yoga/body awareness coach. He is currently working on a book entitled, The Yoga Voice.
Email: molitern@tcnj.edu
