About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Neher (pronouns: she/her) has over fifteen years of experience as music educator, teaching studio voice, vocal seminar, singer's diction, music composition, music theory, and musicianship. She is a member of the voice faculty at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and previously served on faculty at Coe College and Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Grinnell College in Grinnell Iowa, and taught as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa and the University of Kansas.
In addition, Lisa has extensive experience teaching students of all ages in the private studio setting. Her high school students have won places in Iowa's All-State Choir and high school and community musical theatre productions, and have received high scores on state Solo & Ensemble Contests. Several studio recitals are held each year, giving students the opportunity to put what they have learned in lessons on stage. Her students have gone on to pursue degrees in voice performance, music education, and music therapy at colleges such as Oberlin College Conservatory, Columbia College Chicago, Wartburg College, Simpson College, the University of Northern Iowa, and the University of Iowa. Lisa regularly adjudicates vocal competitions including NATS and Solo & Ensemble Contest. She enjoys working with students from a variety of musical backgrounds. Lisa loves singing classical and musical theatre repertoire and is particularly passionate about performing the music of living composers. She attended the Shenandoah Conservatory CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute, where she studied commercial singing styles such as musical theatre belting, jazz, folk, and R&B styles. She performs with Opera Theatre Oregon, Third Angle New Music, Resonance Choral Ensemble of Portland, Portland Opera Chorus, Cascadia Composers, Friends of Rain New Music Ensemble, and was recently featured at St. James Lutheran Church's Bach Cantata Vespers where she performed as Alto Soloist for J.S. Bach's cantata, Mit Fried’ und Freud’ ich fahr’ dahin (With Peace and Joy I Depart). Lisa’s compositions include solo and chamber music for instruments and vocal works in the operatic, song, and choral genres. Her particular passion for text and poetry has led to works such as her chamber opera White Horizon, about a nineteenth-century Arctic expedition gone wrong, and her song cycle Snapshots, which she performed at the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Italy. Lisa was selected to be part of the inaugural year of the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, which mentors emerging composers. Recent premieres include Twister for Durward Ensemble of Cedar Rapids, Icy Celestial Bodies for solo marimba performed by Matthew Andreini on the Iowa Composer’s Forum fall concert series, and Thaw, a marimba duo for Mayumi Hama and Chris Froh, which was performed at the Sacramento State Festival of New American Music. She adjudicated student works for the Eugene Chapter of OMTA's Student Composer Celebration earlier this year, and regularly teaches workshops on composing for singers. Lisa is a member of Cascadia Composers, the Iowa Composer’s Forum and ASCAP. Lisa is Composer in Residence for Beaverton Community Band. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa, a Master of Music Composition from the University of Kansas, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Music and Theatre from Lewis & Clark College. Learn more about Lisa's performing and composing on her professional website. Sung by Lisa |
Lisa performs in This Land Sings with Opera Theatre Oregon.
Lisa with the family kitty, Max!
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