June 12, 2022
Presented By Carl Dupont, The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, with panelists Joanna K. Love and Victor Antonio Lozada
Carl DuPont is an artist, innovator, and educator dedicated to Transformational Inclusion in the arts and Care of the Professional Voice. His articles can be found in The Laryngoscope and the Voice and Speech Review. He can be heard on the world premiere recordings of the Caldara Mass in A Major, The Death of Webern, and his solo album of art songs by Black composers entitled The Reaction.
DuPont has held center stage in performances at The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Carolina, First Coast Opera, Toledo Opera, Opera Saratoga, Sarasota Opera, Cedar Rapids Opera, El Palacio de Bellas Artes, Opera Company of Brooklyn, the IN Series, Carnegie Hall, and Leipzig Opera. He has been invited to present research and recitals in Salzburg, Rome, Stockholm, New York, Portland, and Miami. He has proudly toured as a soloist and ensemble member with the American Spiritual Ensemble, the only professional ensemble dedicated to the preservation of the Negro Spiritual. This season DuPont returned to Opera Columbus in a production of Fellow Travelers, as a local favorite, after previously appearing there as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville and Leporello in Don Giovanni. He is excited to debut this season with Bach in Baltimore in the title role of Elijah, in recital at The Kennedy Center, and in concert at the Anchorage Festival of Music in Alaska. He returns to Carnegie Hall in May as the bass soloist in Z. Randall Stroop’s American Rhapsody.
A graduate of the Eastman School of Music (BM), Indiana University (MM), and the University of Miami (DMA), DuPont currently serves as an associate professor at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. There, he has developed a course on art song by African American composers, co-chairs the Culturally Inclusive Task Force, and serves on the Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee. He also creates and leads dynamic workshops in the private and public sector as a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business Executive Education team.
Prized for his innovative approach to vocal pedagogy and higher music education DuPont has given masterclasses and lectures for a host of organizations including Temple University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Eastern-NY NATS, College Music Society, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Students from his studio have won first place in district and regional NATS competitions, sang leading roles in collegiate opera productions, and been accepted into prestigious graduate schools and summer programs. This summer is the artistic co-lead of the John F. Kennedy Center’s Washington National Opera 2022 Opera Institute after he returns from teaching at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.
As CEO/founder of DuPont Consulting, LLC, he leverages his research, expertise, and compassion to design and implement strategic initiatives in diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and sustainability. This includes training, programming, and talent acquisition within academic and performing arts institutions.
Victor Antonio Lozada is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Literacy and Learning and the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership in the College of Professional Education at Texas Woman’s University where his research includes the intersections among music education, bilingual education, and literacy learning. His research can be found in the Journal of Language & Literacy Education, Literacy Research and Instruction, the Journal of General Music Education, and the Bilingual Research Journal. He also offers suggestions for how secondary teachers can engage their students in being critical about curricula in his co-edited book Engage and Empower! Expanding the Curriculum for Justice and Activism, especially his chapters on rap music and antiracism.
Victor has taught as an elementary general music teacher in multilingual environments for 14 years in Texas where his choirs and instrumental ensembles would consistently earn superior ratings at festivals. His teaching is based on the Orff-Schulwerk approach. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of Reverberations: Teachers Teaching Teachers, the online journal of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion subcommittee. He also serves as adjunct music education faculty at the University of North Texas-Dallas where he teaches pre-service teachers how to use music to enact critical consciousness through an antiracist pedagogy among their students.
Dr. Lozada brings his research to the broader educational community in his international and national presentations. He frequently presents for the American Educational Research Association, the National Association for Bilingual Education, and the La Cosecha Dual Language Network. He brings the notion of rejecting raciolinguistic ideologies to many fields such as his presentations at the Mountain Lake Colloquium for General Music Education and the American Orff-Schulwerk Association.
Joanna K. Love is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Richmond. She is also the Book Reviews Editor for the Journal of the Society for American Music (JSAM). She researches American and popular music in multimedia and has published extensively on music in U.S. national brand and political advertising. Her work has appeared in interdisciplinary volumes for Oxford University Press and Routledge, as well as professional journals including American Music, JSAM, and Music and Politics. Love has also published in peer reviewed, open source online venues, Trax on the Trail and Musicology Now. Her 2019 book, Soda Goes Pop: Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music, was supported by an American Association of University Women (AAUW) fellowship. Love’s recent co-edited volume with Jessie Fillerup, Sonic Identity at the Margins (2022), explores the roles of music and sound in constructing personal, community, and global identities. She is currently working on a Digital Humanities archiving project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, America’s Music Scenes in the Age of Social Media, and is writing a book on the many roles of popular music in NFL Super Bowl broadcasts.