Dr. Carol Dusdieker is an Assistant Professor of Voice at Heidelberg University, teaching Applied Voice lessons and other courses including Vocal Pedagogy, Diction for Singers, Song Literature, Chamber Music and Music History. Dr. Dusdieker received her Doctorate and Masters of Music with Voice Emphasis from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she studied with esteemed soprano, Costanza Cuccaro.
Dr. Dusdieker brings an exciting performance background to Heidelberg University having sung with various opera companies and symphonies through the United States, such as Opera Cleveland, Des Moines Metro, Glimmerglass Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Cedar Rapids Opera, Toledo Symphony, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and the Windsor Chamber Orchestra.
With a passion for modern music, Carol premiered the title role of Florida with Opera Cleveland as well as Wernick’s Oracle of Shimon Bar Yochai with the IU New Music Ensemble and Dyachkov’s Canticles of Love, Despair and Hope with the IU Contemporary Vocal Ensemble. She is an annual performer in the Heidelberg New Music Festival.
Dr. Dusdieker is an enthusiastic vocal pedagogue with past students performing in Broadway productions and pursuing vocal degrees at Bowling Green State University, Kent State, Indiana University, and Northwestern Conservatory. She currently resides in Perrysburg, Ohio with her husband Thaddeus Archer, associate principal trumpet of the Toledo Symphony and their ferocious cat, Maurice.
