About Lessons with Dr. Ewart

Dr. Ewart is an opera singer, concert soloist, and teacher. He received a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Michigan State University. He has performed with the Lansing, Shreveport, and Texarkana Symphonies. He has sung lead roles with the Toledo and Shreveport Operas among others. In addition to a vibrate regional career throughout the United States, Dr. Ewart has also sung abroad in concerts in Italy and China. He was hailed as “A rich resonant baritone with majestic proportions” by the Toledo Blade in a review of his performance of Horace Tabor in The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore.

Dr. Ewart has taught private voice for 13 years in Chicago, Cincinnati, and the Greater Lansing Area to great success. High school student’s from the Ewart vocal studio routinely land leading roles in musicals as well as solos in choral productions. High School students of the Ewart vocal studio who pursue a career in music have been accepted with scholarship to Indiana University, Northwestern University, Oberlin, Roosevelt University, DePaul University, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Michigan State University, The University of Michigan, Western Michigan University, Central Michigan University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Oakland University. The Ewart vocal studio has a combined total of over a half a million dollars in college tuition scholarship offers. Students of the Ewart vocal studio who pursue an ivy league education have also been accepted to prestigious schools such as Brown, Vanderbilt, and Cornell where private voice lessons were a great benefit as extra curricular activities on college applications.

Dr. Ewart has also maintained a healthy community vocal studio with members routinely singing in summer shows, studio recitals, as well as weddings, funerals, and a lot of fun at karaoke. Dr. Ewart had never planned on pursuing a career in music, and at the beginning of his college career in voice was still actively working construction. As a result of this unique and unplanned path, Dr. Ewart did not possess any significant talent or musical skill as a singer. Because of this, he had to learn everything through hard work and determination, and due to the generous patience and unwavering belief of his undergraduate teacher, Richard Fracker, Dr. Ewart takes any and all students who wish to learn how to sing. Previous skills or level of talent does not matter.

Dr. Ewart has had the enormous pleasure of learning from three teachers, Richard Fracker, Marc Embree, and Mark Rucker who have had extraordinary national and international careers singing with such companies as the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Covant Garden, San Francisco Opera, among others. In a fortunate turn of events, each is a professor of voice at Michigan State University with offices next to each other. Dr. Ewart has maintained a healthy professional relationship with each of them.