Elisa Ramon, Instructor
Voice, Diction
Contact Information
Email e_ramon2@fhsu.edu
Phone (785) 628-5329
Office Malloy 238
Native Italian soprano Elisa Ramon joins the voice faculty at Fort Hays State University as a Voice Instructor. She is currently a PhD candidate in Voice Pedagogy with a minor in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. and an SVI-trained Vocologist at the National Center for Voice & Speech in Salt Lake City, Utah. She holds a Diploma in Voice (B.A.+M.M.) and a Master of Music in Music Education from the Pollini Conservatory of Padua (Italy), along with a B.A. in Musicology from the University of Padua (Italy). Additionally, she is certified in Levels I, II, and III of Somatic Voicework™ for CCM. Prior to joining FHSU, she taught applied voice and diction at the University of North Texas and PennWest Edinboro University.
Elisa’s research focuses on Italian diction and the modification of consonants to improve legato singing. She is also the creator of The Italian IPA Project, a free online video repository of audio sync IPA transcriptions. In addition, she actively performs and researches Ibero-Latin music, promoting the application of Spanish in vocal technique development.
An advocate of 20th-Century Italian Art Song, Elisa has performed works by lesser-known composers like Omizzolo, Lincetto, and Bossi. She premiered a CD of art songs by Apulian composer Michele Bellucci. She collaborates with classical guitarist and musicologist Alessio Olivieri as part of the Operaperta Duo. Together, they have performed extensively in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Italy and released the CD Operaperta Duo: Spanish Popular Songs, Venetian Boat Songs, and Neapolitan Songs.