Baritone Sean McCarther serves as Assistant Professor of Voice and Pedagogy at Westminster Choir College where he teaches studio voice and undergraduate voice science.  In May of 2012 hereceived his doctorate in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy with minors in music theory and movement/postural analysis at Indiana University. He studied voice with Dr. Robert Harrison and pedagogy with the late Paul Kiesgen.  Dr. McCarther earned his Master of Music degree with an emphasis in speech pathology at Indiana University and his Bachelorof Music degree at Baylor University, where he studied with Jack Coldiron.

Dr. McCarther has performed leading roles in opera, musical theatre, and staged plays with JCA Management, The Lee Norvelle Theater and Drama Center, the Bloomington Early Music Festival, Bloomington Playwrights Project, and IU Opera Theatre.  He is a strong proponent of new music and has appeared in several premieres including Gabriella Ortiz’s Unicamente la Verdad! (The Composer) and Don Freund’s Romeo and Juliet (Romeo).  He premiered the chamber cycle Archy Speaks by composer Gabriel Lubell as part of the Ball State New Music Festival.

In addition to staged work, Dr. McCarther is an avid recitalist and chorister.  He is a member of the semi-professional chorus VoxReflexa and performed with them and Ensemble Lipzodes in Quito, Ecuador as part of the Festival Internacional de Musica Sacra.  In 2010, Dr. McCarther and his pianist Joseph Noelliste toured their sacred music recital O Sacrum Convivium across Texas and Indiana in Dallas, Plano, Houston, Waco, Bloomington, South Bend, and Indianapolis.

An advocate for physical theater and mobile singers, Dr. McCarther is in the process of creating a movement-based vocal pedagogy called Body, Mind, and Voice Performance Training (BMV Training).  The goal of the BMV Training is to help students unlock their creative potential through movement based exercises and improvisatory vocalise.  In its current form, the BMV Training is an amalgamation of classical voice training, movement for the theater training, and STOTT Pilates principles; incorporating aspects of Alexander, Feldenkrais, Skinner Release, and Suzuki movement training.

Dr. McCarther has presented scholarly research at the Beall Poetry Festival (Baylor University), the New Voice Educators Symposium (Indiana University), and the Alleluia Conference (Baylor University).He is a certified STOTT Pilates instructor and has been trained by the Society of American Fight Directors in knife and broadsword combat for the stage.

Sean, his wife Alicia, and their two-year-old pointer/hound mix Barkley currently live in Bloomington, IN.  They are expecting their first child, Ian David, in October.