Faculty Biography

Julie Jordan Gunn

Associate Professor of Accompanying

AB (economics), Dartmouth College; MM and DMA (vocal coaching and accompanying), University of Illinois; student of John Wustman.

Dr. Gunn has an international recital career in prestigious series at such venues as New York’s Lincoln Center, 92nd Street Y, and Carnegie Hall, the University of Chicago, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, and Grant Park in Chicago. She has coached singers at Wolf Trap Opera, Opera North, and Opera Theater of Saint Louis, and in many world-class opera houses. She is a talented orchestrator, song arranger, and music director, working with major artists, orchestras, and recording labels. In addition to her formal education, Professor Gunn received training at the Metropolitan Opera at the hands of some of the world’s greatest coaches and singers.

Her most recent activities include performing in concert and on recordings with her husband, Nathan Gunn. She has also collaborated with tenors William Burden and Richard Croft; mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung; and soprano Yvonne Gonzales Redman in concerts throughout the United States and abroad.