Monica Anderson Spencer, soprano, has performed with many diverse organizations including the SpeakEasy Stage Company, the Heritage Chorale, Enter Stage Left, Opera Southwest, the Goldovsky Opera Institute Summer Workshop, the Wolf Trap Opera Training Program, the Nevilla Ottley Singers, the Joffrey Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and the Oscar Micheaux Theater Company Program.  Monica has performed with jazz greats Donald Byrd, Max Roach and Oscar Brown, Jr.

She has also appeared as a soloist on the Celebrity Series of Boston, with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Takoma Park Symphony Orchestra and in recital at the U. S. State Department, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Danforth Museum, the Sumner Museum, the National Gallery of Art and several other venues in the Metropolitan area of Washington, D.C., and the Metrowest area of Boston, MA.

Having earned  Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees in Music Education, (Vocal Performance & Choral Conducting), from Howard University in Washington, D.C., Monica serves on the voice faculty of the Ottley Music School and the Hopkinton Center for the Arts.  She was an adjunct voice instructor at the Trinity College (Trinity Washington University), and taught voice at the Sewell Conservatory of Music, the former District of Columbia Youth Chorale Program at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, the Oscar Micheaux Family Theater Company Program and the Suitland High School Visual and Performing Arts Program where she established an opera workshop.  She has also taught on the music faculty of Bellingham High School, and the Bellingham Memorial Middle School, (Bellingham, MA).

With over three decades of working with high school and college singers, she has a great deal of experience with the care and training of developing voices; paying attention to vocal health in students of all levels and ages.  Learning to sing is a slow, patient process.  It is a learned skill and those with sufficient motivation and patience will improve their performance considerably.  Monica’s objective is to help students attain their vocal aspirations through healthy singing. Her teaching approach is to achieve free, open-singing based on a vocal technique pyramid with Posture and Breathing as the foundation upon which, Tone Production, Diction and Resonance are built.

Her students have consistently earned gold and silver awards in the Massachusetts Instrumental & Choral Conductors Association’s Solo & Small Ensemble festivals, have been selected through audition for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association’s Central District & State Choruses, and has had a student chart at #10 on the Christian Top 20 Download chart.

Monica Anderson Spencer is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the American Choral Directors Association, and the National Association for Music Educators.