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Soprano Lauren Athey-Janka serves as Assistant Professor of Voice and Voice Pedagogy at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, where she teaches applied voice, vocal pedagogy, vocal literature, and diction courses. She has taught classical voice for almost 20 years and has professional classical voice students in the USA, Canada, and throughout Europe.

Ms. Athey-Janka is on the voice faculties of Opera Viva! in Verona, Italy and the Florence Voice Seminar in Florence, Italy. She formerly taught at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Vocal Program. She was recently invited to give masterclasses at the renowned Het Conservatorium van Amsterdam in The Netherlands and frequently gives masterclasses at universities and conservatories internationally. She has also served on the voice faculties of Westminster Choir College and West Chester University, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students.

Ms. Athey-Janka's students have performed with and been accepted to Academy of Vocal Arts, New York City Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera North, Wolf Trap Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Saratoga, Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera Iowa, Spoleto Festival, Opera Delaware, Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra Montréal, Muziekgebouw aan't IJ in the Netherlands, Theater Rochester Biel Solothurn, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Nordrhein-Westphalia Opera Studio (NWR Opernstudio), Oper Dortmund, Oper Wuppertal, Aalto Musiktheater Essen, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirche, Stadttheater Gießen, Opernfest Berlin, Wad Opera in The Netherlands, The Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen, OPERA2DAY, Jonge Grote Zangers Young Artist Program, Ensemble Volte in Montréal, Nightingale Opera Theatre, Seagle Music Colony, Oberlin in Italy, Chicago Summer Opera, and the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices. Her students have placed and won in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, Lotte Lenya, Talent Gala of the Opéra de Montréal, Classical Singer, Schmidt, and NATS competitions.

Ms. Athey-Janka co-authored a series of five anthologies for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone and bass with Dr. Christopher Arneson. These anthologies were written in response to their critically acclaimed first literary collaboration "Literature for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching Solo Vocal Repertoire from a Developmental Perspective". They plan to continue this work for countertenor and contralto voices.

Ms. Athey-Janka has studied voice science, voice pedagogy, voice disorders, and speech with leading industry professionals. She received a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Boston University, Master of Music degrees in Voice Performance and Vocal Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College, and completed post graduate coursework at Temple University. Ms. Athey-Janka has continued her pedagogical education with The Voice Foundation Annual Symposiums, National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conferences, Westminster Choir College's Voice Pedagogy Institute, and The David Jones Teacher Mentoring Program. In 2014, Ms. Athey-Janka was the winner of the Milton Cross Young Artists Program, and in 2013, won an Enrichment Grant from the Music Teachers National Association Foundation Fund.​