Vox Humana
Faculty Voice Trio

Mary Ann Lanier, soprano
Martina Ferrante, alto
Ed Milham, bass

Named for an organ stop which seeks to imitate the sound of the human voice, the Vox Humana trio seeks to perform a cappella vocal ensemble music as a true chamber music idiom. Its repertoire ranges from early music to the contemporary. Its members, Mary Ann Lanier, Martina Ferrante and Ed Milham are professional solo and ensemble performers as well as veteran educators.

Ms. Lanier is a founding member and producing director of the acclaimed American music concert series, American Classics and has served as a director and principal soprano of the award-winning touring educational opera group, Opera to Go. She has served on the music faculties of Tufts University, Wellesley College, and MIT, and currently teaches studio voice and general studies courses at Bridgewater State University. She served as Director of Choral Music at Brooks School in North Andover, MA. At present she is Music Lesson Program Coordinator at Groton School, Groton, MA. She teaches voice at Groton School and New England Conservatory.

Ms. Ferrante has performed throughout New England as soloist with the New Bedford Symphony, Plymouth Philharmonic, Brockton Symphony, and Quincy Symphony orchestras. For over a decade she sang under the direction of Sarah Caldwell with the Opera Company of Boston and toured with Opera New England. She has directed several church choirs in the Plymouth area and is currently the choir director at the Mayflower Congregational Church in Kingston, MA. In addition to teaching studio and class voice and diction classes at Bridgewater State University, she has taught voice at Eastern Nazarene College and in the Plymouth, Brockton, and Rockland public schools.

Mr. Milham has performed as a vocalist with LiveARTS, the Franklin Performing Arts Company, the Lowell Opera Company, the Merrimack Valley Broadway Ensemble, the Savoyard Light Opera Company, the Newport Music Festival and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. As a conductor, he served as the Interim Director of the Bridgewater State University Alumni Choir. In addition, he has worked as music director in several area churches including his current position as Choirmaster of Trinity Episcopal Church in Wrentham, and has taught conducting clinics for the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network. He has toured in Russia and Eastern Europe, and Scotland and England. In addition to his work at Bridgewater State University, teaching voice classes and various other courses in music, he provides private voice instruction at the Franklin School for the Performing Arts.
 

Last Modified: August 26, 2010