Lucia Dunham

Lucia Dunham (died April 3, 1959, Ridgewood, New Jersey) was an American voice teacher and classical soprano who is chiefly remembered as a longtime professor of vocal performance at the Juilliard School from 1922-1959. She studied voice at the National Conservatory of Music of America and then the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School) where she earned a diploma in 1909 and was a voice student of George Henschel. She then pursued further studies with Lilli Lehmann in Salzburg and at the University of California, Berkeley where she also taught as a member of the voice faculty prior to her post at Juilliard. As a performer she was mainly active in recitals and concerts in the United States and Europe, but did appear in some operas. She was particularly active as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony and the New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch. A founding member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, many of her pupils had successful performance careers both in the United States and abroad, including Anne Brown, Nanette Fabray, Elia Kazan, Rosemary Kuhlmann, and Graciela Rivera among others.