Anne Gross

Instructor of Voice and Opera Director

Anne Gross is a soprano, voice teacher, conductor, collaborative musician, and master clinician whose career encompasses performance, teaching, and advocacy for art song and choral music. She has performed throughout the United States and internationally in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Cuba, and Australia. She has presented guest recitals and master classes at conservatories and universities in the United States and abroad, including Oberlin Conservatory of Music, West Virginia University, the University of Notre Dame, West Chester University, Riverina Conservatorium in Wagga Wagga, Australia, and Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa.

A passionate advocate for art song, Gross has premiered song cycles written for her and promotes the music of historically underrepresented women composers, including Vítězslava Kaprálová, Poldowski, Isabelle Aboulker, and Cécile Chaminade. Internationally renowned collaborative pianist Martin Katz invited Gross to record the audio examples for his Oxford University Press publication, The Complete Collaborator: The Pianist as Partner. A pianist as well as a singer, Gross began her studies at Oberlin Conservatory as a piano performance major and frequently serves as a collaborative pianist for her voice students.

Gross maintains an extensive oratorio and concert repertoire, with a particular interest in the vocal and choral music of J. S. Bach. Her performance highlights include Bach’s Mass in B Minor, numerous cantatas and Passions, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Handel’s Messiah, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, and major works by Mozart, Haydn, Fauré, Rutter, Corigliano, and Schubert. Her performance credits include the U.S. premieres of Cuban composer José María Vitier’s Ave Maria por Cuba and Missa Cubana, performed with the composer in attendance. She coached and performed the soprano solos in Alice Parker’s That Sturdy Vine in collaboration with the composer.

As an educator, conductor, and collaborative musician, Gross brings extensive experience working with singers and choral ensembles. At Elizabethtown College, she conducted Fenice, a 50-voice gender-inclusive treble choir, and she has worked with SATB ensembles as well. She is frequently invited to serve as a master clinician for choral ensembles and an adjudicator for choral festivals and competitions. Her studio teaching emphasizes individualized vocal development, thoughtful repertoire selection, collaborative musicianship, and the development of confident, independent performers.

Gross holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance. She earned a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Opera from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she was a Corbett Opera Scholarship recipient, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music.