Melissa Landis

HISTORIAN

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Melissa McIntosh Landis, soprano, is an accomplished recitalist and concert artist. She has been a guest soloist from coast to coast appearing in Carnegie Hall with the New York City Chamber Orchestra and on the stage of Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall.

​A native of Kansas, Ms. Landis' dramatically warm and emotionally rich soprano voice is equally adept in repertoire that includes Mendelssohn's Elijah, Verdi's Requiem,

Tippet's A Child of Our Time, Poulenc's Gloria and Sir Paul McCartney's Ecce Cor Meum, in which Ms. Landis performed the West Coast premiere.  Her most recent collaborations include recitals featuring American art song from the turn of the 20th century and Music Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment and Women's Right to Vote.

Ms. Landis completed her graduate work in opera performance at the nationally acclaimed Wanda Bass School of Music, Oklahoma City University where she was the recipient of the distinguished Inez Silberg Scholarship and a young artist with Tulsa Opera. 

During her post-graduate studies, she taught at the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California. Over the last 20 years in the Los Angeles area, Ms. Landis has taught voice for Mount San Antonio College, Azusa Pacific University and La Sierra University. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence for Whittier College Music Department, where she teaches voice, voice class, music history and directs opera workshop.  Her studio produces successful singers in both contemporary and classical repertoire.