
Holly Ruth Gale
Voice
Assistant Professor of Music
Witherspoon
407 West Q St
Russellville, AR 72801
Phone: 479-964-0858
Email: hgale@atu.edu
Holly Ruth Gale teaches applied voice, Italian Diction, Music Theatre Workshop and
conducts the ATU Women's Choir. Active in professional Summer Stock Theatre, she completed
her seventh season with Music Theatre of Wichita in 2005, where she has performed
in such productions as Music Man, Phantom, Ragtime, My Fair Lady, Oliver, Most Happy
Fells, Pajama Game, and Where's Charlie. Gale has also performed with Shreveport Opera,
Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, Discoveryland, Arkansas Children's Opera, and
The Music Theatre Alliance. In May 2006 she will be a soloist in the Songs Across
the Americas Festival. In 2003 she was the vocal soloist in on Robert Boury's CD Migration,
in 2000 she released the CD Holly and Carol: A Christmas Collection which was produced
by Hans Stiritz, and in 1999 sang the music of Hans Stiritz in the soundtrack for
Height of the Sky. In addition to Musical Theatre, studio singing, recital work, and
teaching Gale has been a frequent guest lecturer on Shape-Note Music and Singing Schools
and "The Baroque Woman Singer". She has been a guest lecturer for the University of
Florida's School of Musicology Lecture Series in 2002, and has presented at the National
College Music Society Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2001. She was winner of
the Arkansas Met Auditions in 1993, the Arkansas NATS Artist Award in 1993 and 1995,
and was a Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year Finalist in 1994. Gale serves on the
Executive Committee for the annual Shape-Note Gathering which is held at the Ozark
Folk Center in Mountain View. She received her BA in Music from Arkansas Tech University
in 1986 and her MM in Vocal Performance from the University of Central Arkansas in
1999. Holly Ruth resides outside of Russellville with her husband, John, and their
two daughters, Talley Elizabeth and Ian Kathleen.
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