Morgan Manifacier, DMA

Tenor Morgan Manifacier joins the voice faculty at Baylor University as Assistant Professor of Voice. Described as a performer who “gives himself completely to the singing” (Unser Lübeck), he has performed many major opera roles including Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande, the title role of Pygmalion, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Sultan Soliman in Zaide, and Agenore in Il re pastore, among others. On the concert stage, he has performed across the world at venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Saint Hilda’s College at The University of Oxford, Kulturwerft Gollan with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck, Conservatoire national supérieur d’Art dramatique in Paris, and Thayer Hall at Colburn. He is a two-time winner of The American Prize in Voice and a recipient of the Jere H. Brophy Scholar Award from the S. Livingston Mather Vocal Competition.

Dr. Manifacier received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University, where he studied under Randall Scarlata and Jeremy Little. He is an alumnus of numerous international training programs, which include the Oxford Lieder Festival Mastercourse, SongFest (Professional Fellow), Martina Arroyo’s Role Performance Program, the International Baroque Academy at Musiktheater Bavaria, and the Baroque Opera Workshop at Queen’s College. In demand as a teacher and clinician, Dr. Manifacier has presented lectures and given masterclasses at several universities throughout the United States, including Temple University, Concordia College, the University of Mobile, the University of Nevada - Reno, Stony Brook University, and Trinity College.