Cheri Montgomery

Cheri Montgomery is a member of the voice faculty at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. She provides postgraduate instruction to voice teachers, diction instructors, and vocal coaches in her Lyric Diction Workshop held each summer at Vanderbilt University. She was a featured presenter and mentor voice teacher at the NATS 2019 Summer Workshop at St. Olaf College.

Her published works include 14 texts on the topics of voice, English, Italian, Latin, German, French, and Russian diction available at www.stmpublishers.com . She is co-author of "Exploring Art Song Lyrics" published by Oxford University Press. In her work with Oxford she provided pronunciation and IPA for more than 750 Italian, German, and French art songs. Her method of transcription is published in the appendix. Recent publications include "Singer’s Diction" and three volumes of "The Singer’s Daily Practice Journal". An abbreviated version of the pedagogy within is published in the "Journal of Singing": "The Voice and Diction Connection, A Diction Instructor’s Approach to Voice Pedagogy" (Jan./Feb. 2018). Book reviews of her texts are available at www.stmpublishers.com.

Performance credits include solo engagements with the Nashville and Knoxville Symphonies and operatic roles with the Nashville Opera. She was awarded full scholarships for graduate study at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville through the Grace Moore Graduate Scholarship and the Phi Mu Alpha Scholarship; and was a first-place winner of regional NATS auditions.

Her article "Diction [still] Belongs in the Music Department" is published in the Jan./Feb. 2020 issue of the National Association of Teachers of Singing "Journal of Singing".