M. Todd Queen
From College of Fine Arts and Communications
Queen leads an active and diverse musical career that includes opera directing, guest recitals and master classes, and performing as a soloist with national and regional opera companies, orchestras, choruses, and concert series. He is a member of the College Music Society and the National Association of Teachers of Singing, where he was selected as one of 12 outstanding young voice teachers selected from Canada and the US to participate in the NATS Summer Intern Program.
He has directed numerous operas, including Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and Le Nozze di Figaro, a double bill of Cavellaria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Verdi’s Falstaff, Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Copland’s The Tender Land, Britten’s Albert Herring, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado and Pirates of Penzance. He has also taught at North Dakota State University, Alfred University, and Syracuse University.
The Colorado State University School of the Arts announces that Dr. Todd Queen has been named as Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre & Dance for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2009. “Please join me in thanking Dr. Queen for taking on this challenging position,” says Ann Gill, dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
Queen is currently an Associate Professor of Voice and Director of Opera at Colorado State University, and served as Acting Chair of the Department of Music, Theater and Dance from January of 2009 to July 1, 2009, when he was named as Chair.. Additionally, Queen is Artistic Director of Opera Fort Collins and the Apprentice Artist program. In summer 2010 he will serve as Founder and Artistic Director of Opera in Orvieto, an intensive three-week summer program that focuses on a complete Italian musical experience.
My experience thus far at CSU has been rewarding and fulfilling, I have grown as an artist, as a teacher, as an administrator and as a person. I welcome the opportunity to serve the faculty and staff as Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance as we begin a new era in a our new building that is full of hope, collaboration, and endless potential.
