Award winning teacher and established authority in fitness training and the singing voice, pedagogue Dr. Chuck Chandler is a highly sought after presenter, master clinician, and consultant. His students have performance credits at the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Atlanta Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Santa Fe Opera among others. He has presented sessions at conferences in the United States and abroad on multiple pedagogical topics including The Pedagogy of Pedagogy, Fitness Training and the Singing Voice, and Modern Opera and Pedagogical Updates at the International Congress of Voice Teachers, National Opera Association, and National Association of Teachers of Singing.
His articles “Modern Opera and Film" and “Fitness Training and the Singing Voice: successful strategies for integration" are published in the National Association of Teachers of Singing peer-reviewed Journal of Singing. Chandler has given pedagogical workshops on topics including the use of Voce Vista which offers real-time spectrogram analysis in the studio, teaching TBB voices, the use of progressive vocalise, and many others throughout the United States. Further, his presence as an adjudicator for competitions and as an in-demand master clinician nationwide is strong.
As a performer, Chuck Chandler has sung world premieres of operatic roles and art song cycles, and garnered acclaim as a tenor soloist in the performance of such concert works as Uriel in Haydn's The Creation, Obadiah in Mendelssohn's Elijah, the tenor soloist in Rossini's Stabat Mater, Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Bach Cantata # 61, John Stainer's Crucifixion, the Du Bois Seven Last Words of Christ, and the Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio to name a few. His operatic roles have included Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Nanki-Poo in The Mikado, Emperor Altoum in Turandot, King Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and many others. His commercial recording, Art Songs and Duets by Women Composers was recently released. He has been a frequent recitalist throughout the United States and has appeared at venues such as the Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Scorca Recital Hall at Opera America. Chandler makes regular appearances at the Festival of Music by Women Composers, the National Association of Teachers of Singing national conferences, and continues serving on the faculty at the young artist training program of Red River Lyric Opera since 2016 as well as in leadership for National Association of Teachers of Singing. Additionally, Chandler has taught at the Orvieto Musica Festival as guest artist faculty.
He holds a doctorate in vocal performance from University of Kentucky and has completed levels I and II Singing Voice Specialist training.