Canadian soprano Nancy King’s eyes sparkle and her voice has a definitive lilt as she explains, “Everything in my musical life has sort of presented itself as a door opening to a move in a specific direction.” A summer at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony’s famed music camp, was a turning point for her. “I took a singing course, run by Phyllis Curtin, retired soprano from the Metropolitan Opera, who was also a teacher at Boston University. I spent the most remarkable time there surrounded by professional musicians who were as passionate about music as I was, and I ended up studying for my master’s at Boston University, then several more years in opera studies at the Longy School of Music in Boston. I discovered that I was also really good at teaching, and I knew I needed the next layer of education to do that, so I got in my car and headed to the University of Minnesota to study for my doctorate. I loved Boston, and I cried all the way to Minneapolis, but I soon grew to love it there too.” One day an unexpected phone call came from her for-mer voice teacher, Joan Heller. At the time, Heller held the position King now holds at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Associate Professor of Voice. Nancy King UNCW/NATE OXENFELD “Everything in my musical life has sort of presented itself as a door opening to a move in a specific direction.” 42 WBM february 2014
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