Ole Miss Alumni and Adjunct Instructor of Voice Lacey Hindman is a lyric coloratura soprano that has performed in the United States and internationally. Lacey’s performance career has included opera, operetta, musical theatre, and song recital. She has performed with Opera Delaware, The Peabody Institute, Vinohrady Theatre, Chicago Summer Opera, and the University of Mississippi Opera Theatre. Some of her roles include Prima cercatrici in Puccini’s Sour Angelica, Second Women and Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, feu, and Le rossignol in Maurice Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, Emmie in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring, and Serpetta in Mozart’s La finta giardinera. In addition, Lacey has been seen in concert with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, in cabaret with William Bolcom, and performed a solo at the DICNY 10th Anniversary at Carnegie Hall.
Lacey has a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the University of Mississippi and a Master’s Degree in Music from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. During her undergraduate program at the University of Mississippi, she received the Outstanding Opera Theatre Award, Choral Excellence Award, and was a Living Music Resource™ assistant. Lacey began studying vocal pedagogy and music cognition during her graduate program at The Peabody Institute, which has influenced her teaching style and resulted in great success as a private voice teacher and music director. Her teaching style is grounded in the combined study of vocal technique, vocal health, and music’s role in brain development. Lacey understands that each student has a unique way of learning, and music offers infinite possibilities of learning techniques and styles to choose from to cater each lesson to a student’s specific needs. She utilizes the best approaches to create an educational plan unique to each student she impacts and meets each student at any level of musical development, working at a pace that is the most beneficial to their artistic growth. Suzuki said it best, “I want to make good citizens. If a child hears fine music from the day of his birth and learns to play himself, he develops sensitivity, discipline, and endurance. He gets a beautiful heart.”
Lacey believes that music performance is the most giving artform as performers put talent and emotion on display to communicate important messages and bring communities together through music. For this reason, she recently became the artistic director and producer of The Summer Theatre Camp nonprofit in Covington, Tennessee. The program offers a two-week musical theatre intensive program for children free of charge. She has collaborated with top talent, including NYU alumni, for the program and offers full set and costume design, dance courses, musical conducting, and music direction. She has worn many hats as the artistic director and is actively involved in the program as a music director, conductor, and sound technician. Lacey’s goal is to make music education accessible to all, and provide students with the tools to be excellent collaborators and confident communicators while also developing their musical talents and aspirations.
