Lyric baritone, Brad Hougham, is a sought-after vocal pedagogue and clinician, and has served on the voice faculty at Ithaca College School of Music since 2006.  He taught for eleven summers in Spoleto, Italy at the Spoleto Vocal Arts Symposium.  He has taught master classes and clinics in the United States, Europe and Canada.  Dr. Hougham studied music at the University of Saskatchewan, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree with Great Distinction.  He earned a Professional Studies Diploma from The Mannes College of Music, a Master of Arts degree from The City University of New York and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 

Dr. Hougham has performed many opera roles with various companies, including:  Il Conte (Le Nozze di Figaro), Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette), and Schaunard (La Bohème).  He sang at the Metropolitan Opera for eight seasons, appearing in Benvenuto Cellini, Fidelio, Götterdämmerung, Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Moses und Aron, Oedipus Rex, Parsifal, Tannhäuser, and War and Peace.

Dr. Hougham has appeared as a soloist in many notable venues (Avery Fisher Hall, Merkin Hall, The Music Center at Strathmore and Brooklyn Academy of Music, to name a few), and he has been featured as a soloist on National Public Radio.  Dr. Hougham’s singing can be heard on two recordings: Rossini in Venice (Albany Records), and Soldier Stories (Mulatta Records), with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra.