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Minnita Daniel-Cox

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Dr. Minnita Daniel-Cox, an African-American soprano, founded the Dunbar Music Archive. She teaches at University of Dayton as an Associate Professor of Voice and Voice Area Coordinator.

Education

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Daniel-Cox received her Bachelor of Music in Music Performance degree from Bowling Green State University. She received both her Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees from University of Michigan.[1]

Scholarship

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Daniel-Cox's research regarding the musical settings of texts by poet and Dayton native, Paul Laurence Dunbar led to her establishment of the Dunbar Music Archive (DMA). She travels internationally lecturing about and performing excerpts from the archive.[2] She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities grants and a grant from the Mellon Foundation.[3] [4] [5]

Written representations of her research have appeared in Classical Singer Magazine and the Journal of Singing.[6][7]

Performance

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Daniel-Cox regularly performs with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra,[8] the Springfield Symphony Orchestra,[9] the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra,[10] the Bach Society of Dayton,[11] and Dayton Opera.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Minnita Daniel-Cox (Soprano) - Short Biography". www.bach-cantatas.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  2. ^ Daniel-Cox, Minnita. Personal Interview. 23 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Mellon Foundation".
  4. ^ "Announcing March 2020 Division of Education Program Awards".
  5. ^ "Minnita Daniel-Cox receives NEH grant - American Musicological Society".
  6. ^ "Singing from the Ivory Tower".
  7. ^ Moniz, Justin John; Daniel-Cox, Minnita (2021). "Honoring a Legacy: The Final Conversation with Arthur Woodley". Journal of Singing. 78 (2): 289–294. doi:10.53830/WEVC6237. S2CID 240173918. Project MUSE 819678.
  8. ^ "Top 10 things to do in Dayton this week". mydaytondailynews. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  9. ^ "Springfield Symphony introduces daring new season". springfieldnewssun. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  10. ^ "Miami Valley Symphony to commemorate end of Civil War".
  11. ^ "A Concert by the Bach Society of Dayton: A Tribute to Paul Laurence Dunbar".
  12. ^ "Postcards from Dayton".