Michael Hanley joined the Conservatory in 2015, is an associate professor of voice, and teaches career skills courses.
Hanley is a sought-after pedagogue, combining his experience as a classical singer and teacher into well-rounded classical and musical theater teaching styles.
His students have achieved success in a variety of genres including musical theater, opera, and commercial music.
From 2013 to 2015, Hanley served on the faculty of Syracuse University’s Department of Drama and Setnor School of Music, where he taught voice, voice for musical theater, and musicianship courses.
Hanley was most recently seen at the Aspen Music Festival in 2015, performing the role of Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, and as a guest artist with Penn State Opera Theatre in La Bohème. Other notable credits include James Vane in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Hanley is actively engaged in academic research and recently presented his work Bridging the Gap between Theatre Voice Training and the Male Singing Voice with colleague Jared Trudeau at the Fall Voice Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He also studied entrepreneurship and the integration of entrepreneurship in Conservatory curricula as a Kauffman Entrepreneurial Scholar at the University of Rochester.
