Teaching

Victoria Vargas

Currently serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Minnesota. She teaches both applied voice and Vocal Pedagogy.

Her previous appointments include the MacPhail Center and Carleton College Her teaching is a combination of her research on the vocal mechanism and its function in balanced singing, teachings of her former and present teachers, and her practical application of technique used on stage in various genres and styles of repertoire.  Her teaching highlights include receiving the James E. Ericksen grant for contemporary commercial music pedagogy research and being chosen as a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) internship program in 2018. She has also chaired the committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Minnesota. At Carleton College she co-produced a production of the opera “Swede Hollow” by Ann Millikan in a conjunction with St. Olaf College. She currently leads the Opera Cooperative Program which establishes student opportunities with the Minnesota Opera. She has given presentations at the NATS National Conference in Chicago, the Minnesota Music Educators Association Conference, and will present at The College Music Society in Miami. Most recently she has been published in Classical Singer Magazine. Victoria maintains a small private studio in Minneapolis.  

Student Accolades

Previous/current students have been accepted into opera programs and companies such as:

  • Miami Music Festival

  • The San Fransisco Opera Merola and Adler Program

  • Fargo-Moorehead Opera

  • Mill City Opera

  • Sarasota Opera

  • Naples Opera Program

  • Chicago Summer Opera

  • Indianapolis Opera

  • Metropolitan Opera

  • Lyric Opera of Chicago

Her students have been accepted to the follow academic institutions:

  • San Fransisco Conservatory

  • University of Chicago Champagne Urbana

  • University of Texas

  • Wichita State University

  • University of Tennessee

  • Longy School of Music of Bard College

  • Boston University

  • American Dramatic Academy of Musical Arts

  • Yale University

There is currently a waiting list for acceptance into the studio.

Please contact Victoria if you would like to be added to the list.