Deborah Bussineau-King
Deborah Bussineau-King, Professor of Music at the University of the Incarnate
Word in San Antonio,Texas was educated at Michigan State University (B.M.),
The University of Texas at Austin and Southwest Texas State University
(M.M.). She has sung major roles, both oratorio and operatic, with the
Lansing Symphony, The University of Texas Symphony and Opera, The Austin
Symphony, The Chautauqua New York Opera Association, and The San Antonio
Symphony and Opera. These works include The Magic Flute, Don
Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutti, The Gypsy Baron, Die Fledermaus, The
Saint of Bleeker Street, The Crucible, The Requiem (Faure,
Mozart, Rutter), Solemn Vespers, Elijah, Messiah,
Bach Magnificat and others.
She was the Affiliate Artist with the San Antonio Symphony "Operation Opera" for
four years, previewing opera in area schools and was the Texas Commission for
the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts Artist-in-Residence in the Northside
Independent School District for three years. Ms Bussineau-King has been an Incarnate
Word faculty member since 1981 and was chairman of the Music Department at UIW
for six years. She is currently soprano soloist and section leader at First Presbyterian
Church in San Antonio, and Saturday/Sunday night Cantor and Service Music Coordinator
at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Selma. She serves as secretary
on the Board of Directors for the Youth Orchestra of San Antonio and is also
on the Advisory Boards of both the San Antonio Lyric Opera and the San Antonio
Choral Society. She is the Founder, Artistic Director, and Soprano in the professional
vocal quartet "Cantos".
Ms. Bussineau-King, has performed guest recitals in the standard classical repertoire
in New York, Michigan, Illinois, Georgia, Texas, New Mexico, Mississippi, Connecticut,
Louisiana, Kentucky, Alberta, Canada and Taiwan. Her specialties are Twentieth
Century American Women's compositions, Sephardic Song and music from Latin America.
She has presented these programs and others for the National Conferences of:
Association of Integrated Studies, The American Musicological Society, and The
College Music Society (3 recitals). She has also performed at The National Association
of Teachers of Singing; Southern Regional Convention, 20th Century Literature
National Conference, Southwest Contemporary Music Festival, Ars Lyrica International
Conference on the relationships between Words and Music, and Resonant Intervals;
an International Conference on the Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Music held
in Calgary, Alberta.
Ms. Bussineau-King has been an invited guest recitalist and clinician twice in
Taiwan, in 1996 and 1997 and was invited to Taiwan again in 1999 for a series
of Recitals and Master classes.
Presently she teaches Private Voice Lessons, Opera Survey/Appreciation, Aural
Skills I, II, III, and IV, Singing for Beginners, Vocal Pedagogy, Diction
and Music Appreciation.
For more information contact Deborah Bussineau-King at:
Deborah Bussineau-King
bussinea@uiwtx.edu
Box 67
University of the Incarnate Word
4301 Broadway
San Antonio, Texas 78209
1-210-829-3858
