Barnickel-Fitch has extensive experience in teaching many styles of music and has students with successful careers in opera, on Broadway, and in the pop/country/jazz world as performers, singer songwriters, arrangers, and teachers.
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Through a positive approach and solid technique, which focuses on support, diction and connection of mind and body, she can help instill proper control and confidence in the individual, and prepare the student for the professional world.
She believes in teaching the individual and finding the natural and distinctive voice within.
Her strengths lie not only in her ability to diagnose what is happening with the voice, but also to understand and teach the person as a whole. Barnickel-Fitch believes that everyone can learn to be a better singer. She is a frequent recitalist and her oratorio works include, Handela’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C, Schubert’s Mass in G, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Mass in C, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Rutter’s Magnificat, and most recently, Verdi’s Requiem. She has been a member of Chicago Symphony Chorus and Lyric Opera Chorus and has covered the title role of Verdi’s Aida and Leonora in Il trovatore for da Corneto Opera, as well as being broadcast on WFMT in Chicago.ĭr. She is a member of The National Association of Teachers of Singing and has been part of the faculty at College of DuPage since the fall of 2003. She has won awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Counsel as well as Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus and the Ann Arbor Musical Society. Jennifer Barnickel-Fitch (Voice), Soprano, received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Michigan under the guidance of Lorna Haywood. He has also served on the faculty of the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops since 1990.ĭr. As an educator he has served on the faculties of College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, IL), Triton College (River Grove, IL), and Trinity Christian College (Palos Park, IL) teaching bass, low brass, jazz combo and improvisation. He is in constant demand as a bassist and tubist in almost every conceivable musical genre. He has been recorded on many album projects including three with the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, and on many commercial jingles. As a tubist he has performed with the Lyric Opera, American Ballet Theater, Grant Park Orchestra, Chicago Brass Quintet, and as featured soloist with the New Philharmonic, Ethos Chamber Orchestra, Concordia University Wind Ensemble, and at the 1992 International Tuba-Euphonium Conference. As a jazz bassist he has performed with such luminaries as Marion McPartland, Barry Harris, Bobby Shew, David Baker, Jamey Aebersold, Dick Hyman, Scott Hamilton, Carl Fontana and many others, and has performed with such stars as Rosemary Clooney, Bob Newhart, Martin Short, Phyllis Diller, Rich Little and many others. Richard Armandi (Bass, Tuba/Euphonium, Jazz Bass) is one of the most versatile and in-demand musicians and educators on the Chicago scene today.
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