{"id":225,"date":"2017-11-17T14:26:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenortim.com\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2023-10-13T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T17:22:02","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tenortim.com\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tim has been at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Lecturer of Voice since 2003. He serves as the Coordinator of Music Minor and Non-Major Voice Study and\u00a0held a term as both a departmental academic adviser and recording secretary for the full\u00a0faculty.\u00a0In addition to his private voice studio, he teaches\u00a0Italian, French, and German diction courses.\u00a0Tim also created a Voice Class curriculum for beginning students not ready for individual voice lessons to prepare them for solo performance opportunities. (https:\/\/music.unc.edu\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"He is an effective teacher, communicator, and mentor to his numerous students many of whom have continued on to significant professional careers.\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0---Dr. Louise Toppin, former Chair, Department of Music, UNC-Chapel Hill<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Tim taught at Meredith College for 10 years prior to joining the UNC voice faculty, where he won four Faculty Development Awards. He taught diction, pedagogy, and voice classes in addition to his voice studio of graduate and undergraduate studentss.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"Working alongside Timothy Sparks is a real joy...he provides a shining example of real technical expertise, and a boundless enthusiasm for his work.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Tim served on the advisory board and as a faculty member for the International Young Artists Program (IYAP) from 2015-2023. IYAP offered an international summer experience in Tuscany for pre-professional singers by providing training in vocal technique, repertoire development and\u00a0performance practice. Tim taught master classes, co-directed the opera productions, and was a featured performer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\u201cHis service to [IYAP] has been invaluable, having taught voice lessons, directed choirs, directed opera scenes, and sung beautifully himself in some of our productions. I couldn\u2019t have asked more of anyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

- Ellen Williams, <\/span>Co-founder of the International Young Artists Project Inc.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Tim has served in multiple positions for the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), including North Carolina District Vice-President, President, and Mid-Atlantic Regional Governor.\u00a0 His students have won multiple NATS competitions at the state, regional and national levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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100%<\/b> of Tim's students seeking higher education have been accepted to graduate programs.<\/span><\/h3>\n

A significant\u00a0number of his students place out of graduate diction classes.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Tim has been at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Lecturer of Voice since 2003. He serves as the Coordinator of Music Minor and Non-Major Voice Study and\u00a0held a term as both a departmental academic adviser and recording secretary for the full\u00a0faculty.\u00a0In addition to his private voice studio, he teaches\u00a0Italian, French, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenortim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenortim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenortim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenortim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenortim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenortim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenortim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenortim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}