Soprano
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Soli Deo Gloria: Chamber Music Ensemble, May 2024: “Give Me Jesus” American Negro Spiritual; Moses Hogan, arr. (1957 – 2003)
“Exsultate, jubilate” and “Alleluia” from Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
“Vocalise” by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
“Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen” from Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51 by J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
“Alla selva, al prato, al fonte” from Il re pastore by W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)
“Da Tempeste” from Giulio Cesare by G. F. Handel (1685-1759)
“Mondnacht” by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and “Er ist’s” by Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
“The world feels dusty” from 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson by Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
About Chandi
Chandi Millet Plummer, D.M.A.,
is a voice and music professor based in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the coordinator for vocal studies at Boyce College, and is also a part time lecturer in voice at the University of Louisville. As a lyric coloratura soprano, she regularly performs chamber music, oratorios, and recitals. She teaches voice, vocal pedagogy, the international phonetic alphabet and diction, choral conducting, and children’s music methods, among other classes. She is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, where her students have advanced as semi-finalists and finalists in both national and regional competitions for the classical, musical theater, and commercial music categories.
Plummer regularly performs lecture recitals based on her extensive research found in her dissertation: How Spirituals Influenced Both Resistance to Nazis and Civil Rights Protests. In 2025 she was honored to give a lecture recital in both Cambridge, England (June), and in Boston, Massachusetts at The International Bonhoeffer Society Annual Dinner (November).
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She presented a poster presentation on this same topic at the NATS National Conference in 2024, and performed a lecture recital later that summer at the Bay View Music Festival in Michigan. She has guest lectured and taught master classes at the Center for Creative Arts High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the University of Kentucky and Bellarmine University, and Colorado Christian University. Plummer has been honored to teach vocal pedagogy mentorship classes to teachers in the Louisville area and her former students.
Plummer brings diverse musical experience to her current singing career specializing in chamber music, recitals, concert work, and oratorios. In the 2022 International Clara Schumann Competition she won second prize in the professional voice category. She annually performs the soprano solos for G. F. Handel’s Messiah. She is the artistic director and founding member of Soli Deo Gloria, a chamber music ensemble which has featured violin, soprano, and piano. Some of her favorite performances of operatic scenes and roles include: Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel) with The Louisville Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra), and Menotti’s The Medium (Monica) in the Killer Women of Opera concert in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Plummer received a B.M. in voice performance with an honors scholarship from The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she studied with Patricia Berlin; a M.M. in voice performance from Southern Seminary; and a D.M.A. in voice performance from the University of Kentucky where she studied with Dr. Everett McCorvey. Her dissertation is How Spirituals Influenced Both Resistance to Nazis and Civil Rights Protests: https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2024.54
Plummer’s favorite roles are off the stage, however, where she is the wife of Dr. Robert L. Plummer and the mother of three daughters. In every performance opportunity that she accepts or declines, Plummer considers carefully how it will impact the treasure of her family.
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