Goucher College: Voice/Lecturer

Richard L. Hartzell received a B.A. degree in music from Wesleyan University and an M.M. degree in voice from the Catholic University of America. He has taught voice for 30 years and has a private voice studio in Sliver Spring, Maryland. Prior to retiring in 2004, he was the artistic director of the Musical Theater Center in Rockville, Maryland, which he founded in 1984. He was taught musical theater at Peabody Institute Elderhostel in Baltimore, and has taught voice at the Catholic University of America, the Studio Theatre, the Little Theatre of Alexandria, and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, all in the Washington, D.C. area. He has recently taught at the Academy of the Holy Cross in Bethesda, Maryland, and he has just become a full-time faculty member in the music department of Goucher College in Towson, Maryland. He is currently the Vice President for Student Activities of the Maryland State Music Teachers Association (MSMTA) and is a member of the Montgomery County Music Teachers Association. For the past 18 years he has chaired the annual MSMTA Voice Competition. He is also a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. IN 2002 he received the Tony Taylor Award from the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, given annually to an individual in recognition of his contribution to young aspiring artists. His Christmas anthem for chorus, soloists and orchestra, "His Name is Jesus", composed in 1976 with lyricist Clint Holmes, was published in 2006.