Yvonne Gonzales Redman

Biography

Yvonne Gonzales Redman has enjoyed an 18-year career as a main stage soprano at the Metropolitan Opera including nearly 200 onstage performances as a principal soloist, including 26 live radio and television broadcasts that are still regularly broadcast over SiriusXM radio. Highlights include Zerlina in Don Giovanni (James Levine, conductor); Giannetta in L’Elisir d’Amore (with Luciano Pavarotti for his 30th anniversary gala); Jouvenot in Adrianna Lecouvreur (in Mirella Freni’s final performances of this work); and in Parsifal with Placido Domingo, to name only a few highlights of her career. She is a grand prize winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council competition and the Eleanor McCollum Houston Grand Opera competition.

Ms. Redman has performed at the Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Wolf Trap, Opera Illinois, and the Houston Grand Opera, where she sang the world premiere of Daniel Catan’s Florencia en el Amazones. She was featured in the role of Mimì in La Bohème at the Bregenz Festival in Austria.

She has shared the stage with some of the greatest operatic artists, including Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, Nathan Gunn, Bryn Terfel, Teresa Stratas, Renee Fleming, Frederica von Stade, Susan Graham, Carol Vaness, Dawn Upshaw, Denise Graves, Paul Groves, Ben Heppner, Jerry Hadley, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Rene Pape, and Thomas Hampson. Conductors with whom she has collaborated include James Levine, James Conlon, Sir Charles Mackerras, Leonard Slatkin, Richard Bonynge, Jan McDaniel, and Murry Sidlin.

Ms. Redman also participates in voice and hearing research and is a 2022 Recipient of the UIUC College of Fine and Applied Arts Excellence in Research award.

Teaching Philosophy

I believe that every performer is a future instructor, if not of others then certainly of themselves. It is my desire to develop students into independent, versatile, performers who find freedom in vocal expression and stability in their technique due to being supported by reliable methods of artistic singing.

As a teacher, I intend to be a model performer and knowledgeable technician of all vocal production in classical and contemporary singing. I aim to clearly communicate necessary fundamental concepts of the whole body that lead to healthy, expressive, and efficient vocal production regardless of genre. Just as my performance career was supported with leaders in the vocal field, my teaching is informed by past experience, continued regular study, and communication with leading music professionals in health, science, and pedagogy. I’m honored that my students have regularly placed me on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students.

I have studied with Dr. Ingo Titze and Dr. Katherine Verdolini Abbott in the Vocology program held at the National Center for Voice and Speech, have taken a Voice Disorders course with Dr. Aaron Johnson, and have regularly attended the Acoustic Pedagogy Workshop with Kenneth Bozeman and Ian Howell. I am conversant in Estill Voice Training 1 & 2 EFP and comfortable with Voiceprint and VoceVista Video Pro software. I regularly present at international conferences on a number of topics related to voice performance and attend conferences offering current developments in my field. I am available for master classes and presentations. Podcasts of me discussing some of these experiences are listed further down on this webpage.

Applied voice is the only class where you will spend weekly one-on-one time with your professor, often for many years. I am happy to communicate with students, parents, or teachers interested in knowing more about studying with me and what Illinois offers to guide students into a productive future.

Upcoming and Recent Activity

Selected Conference Presentations

Upcoming July 2025 A Balance in the Force: Perceiving and Assessing Vibrato, The International Congress of Voice Teachers, Toronto, Canada. J.Nix, J.Glasner, T.Nesterova, Y.G.Redman

November 2024 Singing in Virtual Reality: A Tool for Performance Preparation, Midwest Voice Symposium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Y.G.Redman, C.Wingfield, C.Nudelman, P.Bottalico

June 2024 A Balance in the Force: Perceiving and Assessing Vibrato, Premium Workshop, The 58th National Association of Teachers of Singing Conference, Knoxville, TN. J.Nix, J.Glasner, T.Nesterova, Y.G.Redman

May/June 2024 Singing in Virtual vs Real Venues: is it the same?, The 53rd Annual Voice Foundation International Symposium, Philadelphia, PA. P.Bottalico, Y.Redman, C.Wingfield, J.Glasner, C.Nudelman

April 2024 Longitudinal Effect of Music Exposure on Hearing Among Vocal Performance Students Poster Presentation, American Academy of Audiology, Atlanta, GA. R.Lowrance, P.Bottalico, Y.Redman, F.Husain, M.Flaherty.

May/June 2023 Singing in Different Performance Spaces: Associations between Room Acoustic and Singers Perception, The 184^th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL. and The 52^nd Annual Voice Foundation International Symposium, Philadelphia, PA. P.Bottalico, J.Glasner, D.D’Orazio, Y.Redman.

April 2023 A Day of Voice at University of Illinois: A symposium celebrating World Voice Day. A collaboration between the School of Music and Department of Speech and Hearing Science, organized by Y.Redman, K.Ishikawa, P.Bottalico

Jul/Aug 2022 Flipping the Vocal Pedagogy Frame, The 57th Biyearly National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conference, Chicago, IL. Y.Redman, N.Perna, J.Glasner

Jul/Aug 2022 Creating the Crossover Curriculum, The 57th Biyearly National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conference, Chicago, IL. S.Wigley, Y.Redman, J.Gunn, N.Gunn, M.Tilley, D.Harris

Jun/Jul 2022 Singing in Different Performance Spaces: Room Acoustic Effects on Vibrato and Pitch Accuracy, The 50th Annual Voice Foundation Symposium, Philadelphia, PA. and The 2nd Acoustics of Ancient Theatres, Verona, Italy. P.Bottalico, N.Łastowiecka, J.Glasner, Y.G.Redman

Apr 2022 Creating the Crossover Curriculum, Presentation for Estill Voice International in celebration of World Voice Day. Y.Redman, S.Wigley

Dec 2021 Teaching Ear to Hear: vocal instructors hearing health awareness, Symposium: Ethical Considerations for Teaching Singing and Caring for Voices. Voice Study Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, United Kingdom. Online. Y.Redman

Jun/Apr 2021 CARE in Distance: Assessing Clinical Empathy of Novice Clinicians Engaged in Telepractice, The 49th Voice Foundation Symposium  Philadelphia, PA. and  Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences Disorders (CAPCSD) National Conference. C.Mendes, Y.Redman, S.Wigley, B.Sweet, K.Ishikawa

Oct 2020 Facilitating Studio Transitions, Central Region National Association of Teachers of Singing, Online. S.Holman, R.Schorsch, Y.Redman, C.Chapman

Jun 2020 The Office: Voice Instructors Work Environment, The 56th Biyearly National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conference, Online. Y.Redman, L.Sonnenberg

Feb 2020 From Fear to Fierce: Managing Performance Anxiety, Texas Music Education Association Conference, San Antonio, TX. Y.Redman

Nov 2019 Smiling from Ear to Hear: Protecting and Preserving our Hearing, Central Region National Association of Teachers of Singing, Iowa City, IA. Y.Redman, G.LaBare

Sep 2019 Voice and Noise Dosimetry in College Voice Teachers, The 23rd International Congress of Acoustics, Aachen, Germany. P.Bottalico, L.Cantor-Cutiva, Y.Redman

May 2019 Work-Related Communicative Profile of College Voice Teachers, The 48th Annual Voice Foundation Symposium, Philadelphia, PA. Y.Redman, C.Vercelli, L.Cantor-Cutiva, P.Bottalico

Jan 2019 From Fear to Fierce: Managing Performance Anxiety, Florida Music Education Association Professional Development Conference, Tampa, FL. Y.Redman

Aug 2017 Crossing the Genres: A Classical Singer’s Guide to Jazz, The 9th Quadrennial International Congress of Voice Teachers, Stockholm, Sweden. S.Wigley, L.Semetko, Y.Redman

​Podcasts and Webcasts

November 2024 Vibrato: Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey, VocalFri Podcast, NATSCast Network. Guests J.Nix, J.Glasner, Y.Redman, T.Nesterova

February 2024 Room Acoustics: The Singer’s Experience, VocalFri Podcast, NATSCast Network. Guests Y.Redman, J.Glasner, and P.Bottalico

March 2023 A Balance in the Force: Producing, Perceiving, Measuring and Assessing Vibrato, National Association of Teachers of Singing, NATS Chat online real-time discussion webinar. J.Nix, J.Glasner, Y.Redman, T.Nesterova

September 2022 Flipping the Pedagogy Frame, VocalFri Podcast, NATSCast Network. Guests N.Perna, J.Glasner, Y.Redman

May 2022 Lyric Theatre Cross Training, VocalFri Podcast, NATSCast Network. Guests Y.Redman, J.Gunn, and S.Wigley

Dec 2021 Treble Extremes!, VocalFri Podcast, NATSCast Network. Guests Y.Redman and K.Gautereaux

Apr 2021 Now You’re a Voice Teacher Pt4, VocalFri Podcast, NATSCast Network. Guests I.Howell and Y.Redman

Feb 2020 Yvonne Redman and Lori Sonnenberg: Instructors Hearing and Voice Health, VocalFri podcast, NATSCast Network.