About Ian Howell

I am a long time participant in the music performance and education industries. I have sung on five continents and in 35 American states as a classical vocal soloist and as a member of the Grammy Award winning ensemble Chanticleer. I have taught studio voice and multiple classes at the intersection of voice pedagogy, applied expressive singing, and modern music technology. From 2013 to 2022 I was a member of the faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. There I overhauled and modernized the voice pedagogy curriculum and founded and directed research in the Voice and Sound Analysis Laboratory, a playground for students interested in both deep experiential learning and modern research into the voice. Beginning in the fall of 2022 I join the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music.

During the lockdown portions of the Covid 19 Pandemic, I worked tirelessly to create, curate, and disseminate information surrounding best practices for real time online music making. This work has been adopted by countless musicians and educators, and I consulted for multiple organizations and college faculties, including Juilliard, CU Boulder, the Cincinnati College Conservatory, Yale, the Met Council Auditions, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Theater of St. Louis, the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the NEC Preparatory Division and School of Continuing Education, and Kristin Chenoweth's Broadway Bootcamp. I was awarded a $20,000 grant by the Mattina R. Proctor foundation and received a special award from the American Association of Teachers of Singing for this work.

My work in the biometric analysis of musicians and instrumentalists has been recognized by my appointments to the Pan American Vocology Association Credentialing and Specialization Committee, the National Association of Teachers of Singing Science Advisory Committee, the National Association of Teachers of Singing Mentorship Committee, and the Voice Pedagogy Summit II. My international recognition includes serving as a member of the PAS7 Physiology & Acoustics of Singing Conference Science Committee. My work is published in the Journal of Voice, the Journal of Singing, Classical Singer, VoicePrints, and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (ant. 2022). I have presented original research at the Pan American Vocology Association Symposium, the Audio Engineering Society International Conference on Audio Education, the National Association of Teachers of Singing Conference, the Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference, and my Lab at NEC has published more than 50,000 words worth of original research and special reports.

I hold a Bachelor of Music degree from the Capital University Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music and Institute for Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.