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Sheridan Stormes, mezzo-soprano, modern language diction, music and fine arts librarian
A mezzo-soprano, Sheri began her vocal studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and holds an M.M. in vocal performance from Butler University. Her voice teachers have included Dorothy Kocher, James Q. Mulholland, André Aerne, and Sharon Beckendorf Searles. Additionally, she has performed in master classes for Carol Neblett, Philip Gossett, Thomas Grubb, and Nico Castel. Sheri's performing experience includes appearances on Butler's Faculty Artist Series, Pi Kappa Lambda Benefit Recitals, the Romantic Festival Series, the Spirit in Place Festival, and with the Indiana Opera Theatre, and as soloist with the Carmel Symphony and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. She maintains an active singing schedule, performing such works as Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Symphony No. 4, Elgar's Sea Pictures, Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, Handel's Dettingen Te Deum and Messiah, Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Mendelssohn's Elijah, and Vivaldi's Gloria. Sheri is currently the alto soloist at First Baptist Church of Indianapolis and sings regularly for High Holy Day services at Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation. She also is a member of the vocal quartet "Vocal-Ease" (a group made up of four Butler alumni!) and performs regularly as a member of the Indiana State Museum Players, a group which presents musical and dramatic revues both on the ISM stage and at various venues in Indiana as part of the museum's Outreach/Distance Learning Program. In this capacity, Sheri sings everything from "bad" Indiana songs to Gilbert and Sullivan to Broadway show tunes to shows devoted to the music of some of Indiana’s best native song compoers: Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter! Sheri is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and is a member and past national associate regent of the national music honorary society Pi Kappa Lambda. She is an alumna of Sigma Alpha Iota and active and performing member of Indianapolis Matinée Musicale. Currently, Sheri serves as president of Butler's Delta Zeta Chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda and vice president of the university’s chapter of the general honorary society Phi Kappa Phi. Sheri also frequently serves as an adjudicator for various statewide vocal competitions. As part of her role as Music and Fine Arts Librarian, Sheri is very involved with the Midwest Chapter and the national organization of the Music Library Association. Recently, Sheri co-authored a chapter in Careers in Music Librarianship II, a book sponsored by the MLA and published by Scarecrow Press. E-mail: sstormes@butler.edu |
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Sheridan Stormes has been teaching lyric diction courses at the Jordan College of Fine Arts since 1988. The languages for which she has served as a diction teacher and coach include English, French, German, Italian, and Latin. She has authored two "textlets" (as she prefers to call them) to aid in her teaching of diction: Hochdeutsch for Singers and Liaisons Dangereuses and Other Aggravations of French Diction for Singers. In addition, Sheri has taught an undergraduate research class, Music Research Techniques, and has team-taught JCFA's graduate level Research in Music class. Having earned an M.S. in Library Science from Indiana University, Sheri also serves as the Music and Fine Arts Librarian for Butler University Libraries.