After a twenty-two year career with the Metropolitan Opera and decades of concert singing worldwide, Detroit born Shirley Love has come home to Westchester to live and teach. Who are Ms. Love's students? Professional singers needing help with new repertoire. Adult avocational singers seeking fresh approaches to singing. Young people just discovering their vocal potential. Ms. Love describes the ideal teacher as "someone with a loving attitude who can be an impersonal listener. If you're an honest performer, you always want to be better; you can never stop learning."

Ms. Love is well known for her many master classes conducted throughout the United States and Canada. She is an artist in residence at New York University and the Int ernational Academy of Music in Italy . She has adjudicated many competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera Auditions.

Ms. Love performed over one hundred different roles at the Metropolitan Opera and was heard often in the "Live from the Met" Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts, as well as televised performances from the stage of the opera house. She was one of the featured artists in the Met Centennial Gala, televised nationwide. She has performed for thirty eight years as a leading international opera, concert and oratorio singer.

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