Hello future students of voice! I have been teaching privately as passion for several years while working in the field of professional singing. In over 2 decades on the stage, I have performed opera, art song, jazz, musical theatre, and pop, so my teaching will also accommodate a wide range range of interests and styles. Teaching has always held a special place for me because I actually get to learn from the lessons just as my students do. My first studio was as a graduate student at the University of Kansas, where I taught non-music majors, Music Therapy majors, and Music Education majors. For a few years I taught privately while pursuing my performance career in New York City. Most recently, I held an interim position as an Instructor of Private Voice at the prestigious Denver School of the Arts. If you'd like to know more about my performance career, keep reading! If you are interested in lessons, please reach out right away as spots are filling up here in Oklahoma City! Thank you for visiting my site.
Dustin Peterson is quickly becoming one of the most popular American Tenors. Being hailed as “vocally strong” with “wonderful diction” by KDHX St Louis, and “engaging” with a “silvery”, “expressive” voice by the Wichita Eagle, lends credibility to Metropulse Knoxville’s assertion that he will “find himself in demand."
Recently on the operatic stage, Dustin appeared with Opera Fort Collins as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, with Cedar Rapids Opera Theater as the cover for Calaf in Turandot, with Wichita Grand Opera as Gastone and Alfredo cover in La Traviata, the Emperor Altoum and cover for Calaf in Turandot, and sang Spoletta in Tosca. With Heartland Opera Theatre, he performed the role of Don Jose in Carmen, and Alfredo in La Traviata. With Winter Opera Saint Louis, he sang Fenton in Verdi’s final opera Falstaff, and Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor.
Operatic appearances of past seasons include Opera Colorado’s productions of Il Trovatore, as Ruiz, and Le Nozze di Figaro, as Basilio, which earned Dustin’s first mention in Opera News as having “dispatched the comic [role] ably”. Wichita Grand Opera has presented many opportunities, which include Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Cassio in Otello, Camille de Rossillon in The Merry Widow, El Remendado in Carmen, not to mention many cover assignments such as Tonio in Le fille du Regiment, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore. He is a regular guest of the Muses Creative Artistry Project of Hot Springs, Arkansas, for which he has sung semi-staged and abridged roles including Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, as well as numerous Broadway-style revues and opera galas.
Dustin has been found to excel in symphonic and concert literature. In recent seasons, Dustin made a trio of such appearances.He sang the tenor solo in Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with the String Orchestra of the National Music Festival, and the tenor solo of the Verdi Requiem with the Symphony Orchestra of the National Music Festival.
In past seasons he has sung the tenor solo in Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. The Ellsworth American was pleased from the downbeat saying “Tenor Dustin Peterson’s strong, clear entrance let us know that we were in good hands”. More soloist opportunities have come with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, as Dustin sang the title role in highlights of Candide. He has also performed Handel’s Messiah with the Messiah Choral Society of Grand Junction, Colorado, and with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra in a concert of Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins.
Dustin will be singing the role of Romeo in excerpts from Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette with the Cheyenne Symphony in March 2019, and covering the role of Don Jose in Carmen with the Wichita Grand Opera in April 2019.