Professional Artist Training Programs

Chuck is an internationally recognized Master Teacher of Acting and Movement Skills for singers, including Coaching Audition Material from a dramatic and presentational standpoint. He offers this work at Universities, Conservatories, and Professional Artist Training Programs around the world.

Opera

  • Ithaca College School of Music:
    Creator/Guest Professor: Opera Stage Direction Certificate Program 2022, 2023
  • Academy of Vocal Arts:
    Stage Director/Master Teacher 2004, Master Teacher 2023
  • Bel Canto Boot Camp / Vaccai Project
    Master Teacher 2021, 2023
  • Yale School of Music-Opera Theatre
    Stage Director 2021, 2022
  • Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust Mentor Program (Melbourne)
    Master Teacher 2011-2018, 2022
  • National YoungArts Foundation (Miami)
    Master Teacher 2017-22
  • dell’Arte Opera Ensemble (NYC)
    Stage Director: 2022
    Master Teacher 2010-2022
  • Pittsburgh Festival Opera Young Artist Program:
    Master Teacher 2022
  • San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program
    Stage Director 2004, 2017
    Master Teacher 2004-2020
  • San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship Program
    Master Teacher 2003-2018
  • Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Program:
    Master Teacher 2001-03, 2017, 2020
  • Wolf Trap Opera
    Stage Director 2002, 2003, 2006
    Master Teacher 2021
  • MassOpera (Boston)
    Master Teacher 2020-21
  • Opera Orlando Resident Artist Program
    Master Teacher 2019-20
  • Kennesaw State University School of Music (Georgia)
    Master Teacher 2015, 2021
  • University of Tennessee School of Music
    Master Teacher 2020-21
  • Athlone Artists (NYC)
    Master Teacher 2020
  • The Empowered Singer (Boston)
    Master Teacher 2020
  • The Voice Studio of Atlanta
    Master Teacher 2020, 2022
  • Pacific Opera Young Artist Program (Sydney)
    Master Teacher 2013-2018
  • Sydney Conservatorium (AUS)
    Master Teacher 2006, 2011-18
  • National Association of Teachers of Singing
    Master Teacher: 2013, 2018
  • The Kiri Programme-Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation (Auckland)
    Master Teacher 2016-17
  • University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music
    Master Teacher / Movement Director: 2018
  • Victorian Opera Young Artist Program (Melbourne)
    Master Teacher 2013-2015
  • Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Victoria University (Melbourne)
    Master Teacher 2013-2015
  • University of Alabama School of Music (Tuscaloosa)
    Master Teacher 2015
  • University of Alabama School of Music (Birmingham)
    Master Teacher 2015
  • Hawaii Performing Arts Festival:
    Stage Director, Master Teacher 2014-2015
  • Hawaii Opera Theatre:
    Master Teacher 2014, 2016
  • Melbourne Opera Studio
    Master Teacher 2014
  • Carnegie-Mellon University
    Stage Director, Master Teacher 2013
  • Opera Australia Young Artist Program (Sydney)
    Master Teacher 2012
  • Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts (Perth)
    Stage Director 2012
    Master Teacher 2011-12
  • Western Australia Opera Young Artist Program (Perth)
    Master Teacher 2012
  • Lotte Lehmann Akademie (Germany)
    Master Teacher 2012
  • The CoOPERAtive Program, Princeton:
    Master Teacher 2010-12
  • La Lingua della Lirica (Italy): Artistic Associate
    Stage Director, Master Teacher 2010-11
  • Lawrence University-School of Music:
    Guest Stage Director, Master Teacher 2011
  • Westminster Choir College, Princeton:
    Adjunct Faculty Artist 2009, 2011
  • S.I.V.A.M., Mexico City:
    Master Teacher 2010
  • Kent State University-School of Music:
    Master Teacher 2010
  • Houston Grand Opera—Opera Studio:
    Master Teacher 2009
  • Indiana University Opera Theatre:
    Stage Director 2009
  • Mannes College of Music:
    Master Teacher 2007, 2009
  • Cincinnati Conservatory of Music:
    Stage Director 2008
    Associate Professor of Acting 2008
  • Virginia Opera Young Artist Program:
    Master Teacher 2007-08
  • Roosevelt University-Chicago College of the Performing Arts:
    Master Teacher 2002, 2008
  • Fletcher Opera Institute-North Carolina School of the Arts:
    Master Teacher 2003-04, 2007
  • Florida Grand Opera Apprentice Artist Program:
    Stage Director, Master Teacher 2004-06
  • Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre:
    Stage Director 2002, 2006
  • Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist Program:
    Stage Director 2002-05
    Master Teacher 2002-03
  • Boston University Opera Institute:
    Stage Director 2006, Master Teacher 2005
  • Seattle Opera Young Artist Program: Co-creator,
    Stage Director, Master Teacher 1998-2005
  • University of Southern California School of Music / Thornton Opera:
    Stage Director, Associate Professor 2003-04
  • Juilliard School of Music:
    Master Teacher 2002
  • Cornish College of the Arts:
    Stage Director, Master Teacher 2000, 2003

Theatre

  • Kentucky Center Governor’s School of the Arts:
    Master Teacher 2014
  • Newington College Theatre Department–New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
    Master Teacher 2013 (NYC)
  • Stephen F. Austin State University Department of Theatre:
    Schmidbauer Guest Artist–Stage Director: 2011
  • University of Wyoming Department of Theatre and Dance:
    Master Teacher 2010, 2012
  • Sarah Lawrence College School of Theatre,
    Graduate Studies Program: Master Teacher 2006, 2009-10
  • North Carolina School of the Arts School of Drama:
    Adjunct Faculty Artist 2000-07
  • Cornish College of the Arts: Stage Director,
    Associate Professor of Acting, Master Teacher 1994-2005
  • Seattle Children’s Theatre Drama School:
    Curriculum, Master Teacher 1994-2000.
  • University of Houston School of Theatre:
    Stage Director, Associate Professor of Movement and Mime 1991-93
  • Centre International d’Action Culturelle de Mimodrame de Paris-Marcel Marceau:
    Full Professor 1990-91
  • Youth Theatre North West:
    Stage Director, Master Teacher 1992-97