Joseph Mace is a doctoral student at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he studies voice with Patricia Havranek. Indiana University appearances include roles in A Wedding and She Loves Me with the IU Opera Theatre and as baritone soloist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Joseph recently premièred Marcus Shelby’s Jazz Oratorio, Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land at the 2008 San Francisco Jazz Festival and recorded it the NOIR label.

Joseph’s stage experience and musical training span opera, oratorio and musical theater. Opera appearances include principle roles in Cendrillon, Gianni Schicchi, Le Nozze di Figaro, Idomeneo, La Serva Padrona and Monteverdi’s Orfeo. Additionally, Joseph sang as a chorister with San Francisco Opera, New Orleans Opera and Philharmonia Baroque and has performed as soloist in numerous oratorios. Musical theater appearances include roles in The Last Five Years, Annie Get Your Gun, Phantom, Victor/Victoria, Side by Side by Sondheim, As the World Goes Round, Guys and Dolls, Godspell and many others.

Joseph received his Master of Music degree in voice from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and holds undergraduate degrees from Tulane University in French/French Literature and Vocal Performance with a musical theater emphasis. Joseph has taught private voice and children’s class voice for the New Orleans public school system and has served as an assistant director and instructor for children’s theater camps in Montana and New Orleans. Joseph is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists.