School of Music welcomes Anne Slovin; new Assistant Professor of Voice

Anne Slovin, soprano, will be joining the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music Voice Faculty this fall as assistant professor of voice. Slovin is a versatile performing artist, researcher and voice pedagogue who earned her doctorate from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in 2025. Passionate about crossing genres and exploring new vocal repertoires and styles, she has recently performed as Eve in Haydn's The Creation at the University of Notre Dame, collaborated across universities for Tom Cipullo's A Visit With Emily, and joined the Raritan Players in Bloomington and New York City of a concert of 18th-century Jewish music.

Slovin has distinguished herself as an interpreter of contemporary opera, having originated the title role in Shulamit Ran’s Anne Frank in 2023 and performed the role of Clara in the collegiate premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s It’s a Wonderful Life in 2017 at the IU Jacobs School of Music. In 2015, she created the role of Mica Segal in The Property, a klezmer opera with music by Wlad Marhulets and a libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Other favorite roles in opera and operetta include Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Micäela in La Tragédie de Carmen. Not one to box herself into a single genre, Slovin is an active cabaret performer who debuted a solo show at Don’t Tell Mama NYC in 2019 and participated in the St. Louis Cabaret Conference in 2022. She made her South Bend Symphony Debut in December 2024 as part of their holiday pops program, Home for the Holidays.

Slovin’s dissertation research proposes a disability-informed approach to voice pedagogy, specifically focusing on how instructors can infuse disability representation into a traditional pedagogy curriculum at the collegiate level. She has presented this research at the London Conference in Critical Thought and the OHMI Conference on Music Performance and Disability, and will attend the International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT) in August 2025. Slovin is also the co-editor, with Katherine Meizel at Bowling Green State University, of Disability and Accessibility in the Voice Studio, an upcoming open access compilation of scholarly writing, testimonials and video demonstrations to help make voice teaching more inclusive of all kinds of disability. She has also contributed an essay to this resource herself, exploring the status of vocal fold use injuries and disorders as disability.

Slovin’s’s research interests also extend outward to musical theater scholarship. In May 2024, she presented at the StageStruck! conference at the Great American Songbook Foundation on nostalgia in the film musicals of Molly Picon, Barbra Streisand and Rachel Bloom. Her work examining the voice and career of Ethel Merman through the lens of trauma theory will appear in the Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound and Trauma in 2025. 

As a Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Notre Dame from 2023 to 2025, Slovin taught applied voice to undergraduate majors, music and musical theater minors, and graduate students in the Sacred Music department, as well as classes on voice pedagogy, voice science, and 20th-century vocal literature. In summer 2024, she was chosen to participate in the NATS Intern Program at Florida State University, where she worked with mentor Melissa Foster of Northwestern University.