“Your leadership and pursuit of excellence in vocal performance continues to inspire both students and audiences around the world. Mark, it is with great pleasure that we confer upon you today the Doctor of Music.”
Schnaible was a 2022 recipient of the CODA Visual and Performing Arts Legacy Award from his alma mater, Morningside University, in honor of continued and distinguished achievement and lifetime of excellence in music.
A teacher of voice since 1988, Mark Schnaible has taught and mentored countless aspiring professional singers and teachers of singing. The students from his voice studio continue to excel and have been chosen for numerous young artist programs including The Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program, Central City Opera House, Wolf Trap, Ohio Light Opera, San Francisco’s Merola Program, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Sarasota Opera as well as the Ashlawn Highland Opera Festival. They have been chosen to participate in the art-song programs of SongFest as well as the renowned Ravinia-Steans program and have distinguished themselves as winners of numerous competitions including National Federation of Music Clubs, National Association of Teachers of Singing, The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, The Joy in Singing Competition, The New York Oratorio Society Competition, as well as many others.
His professional students have sung at the Metropolitan Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, Berlin Deutsche Oper, Berlin Komische Oper, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Dresden Staatsoper, Barcelona Liceu, Israeli Opera as well as numerous regional houses in the United States and Europe. Additionally, they are Grammy winners, and have recorded exclusively for Deutsche Grammaphon.