Eduardo Azzati
Voice
Education
B.M., Juan José Castro State Conservatory of Music, Buenos Aires, Argentina
M.M., Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ
Eduardo Azzati is a versatile musician with 35+ years of experience as voice instructor, vocal coach, choral and instrumental conductor, singer, music educator and keyboardist.
During the late 80’s and 90’s he gained popularity as a soloist and choral conductor in his homeland, Argentina, where he directed many choral and orchestral ensembles and sang with important orchestras, including the National Symphony Orchestra.
During the 10-year period between 1987 and 1997, while still in Argentina, Mr. Azzati held many positions as a choral director in many different settings, including Elementary, Middle and High School, church and community. Among other positions Mr. Azzati was the Associate Conductor of the award-winning National Youth Choir of Argentina, Director of Choral Activities and Conductor of the award-winning choirs at the K-12 St. Agnes School, Director of Choral Activities and Conductor at the K-12 St. Andrew's School, Artistic Director and Conductor of Grupo Coral Kantus, a college-age youth community chorus, and Director of the Chorale de L’Alliance Française of Martínez.
As a solo singer Mr. Azzati has performed many bass/baritone solo roles in many of the great sacred choral-orchestral works of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, etc. as well as the art songs of the German, French, British, American and Spanish repertoires. He also feels a strong connection with, passion and love for American Music Theater literature, and has taught it for decades.
Mr. Azzati has thirty years of experience teaching voice in the private studio setting as well as at the collegiate level. His teaching philosophy and approach are founded on the anatomical and physiological principles and mechanics of voice function and their specific application to the different music genres and styles. He’s a firm believer in the old Italian adage “si canta come si parla” (“we sing like we speak”), which has a foundation on speech and language leading the act of singing.
Mr. Azzati has been on the music faculty at Muhlenberg College since 2017 where he is an Adjunct Professor of Music in Voice, teaching applied voice.
He is also the Chorus Master of the Allentown Symphony Chorus and has prepared the chorus for performances of Mozart Requiem, Beethoven 9th Symphony, Orff Carmina Burana and Mahler 2nd (Resurrection) Symphony, Rutter Gloria, Gershwin Porgy and Bess and many other choral projects. Mr. Azzati is also the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Camerata Singers.
Between 1999 and 2023 Mr. Azzati was the Director of Music at Yardley United Methodist Church, in Yardley, PA. During his 24-year tenure at Yardley UMC Mr. Azzati directed and accompanied adult and youth vocal and handbell choirs, accompanied solo singers and instrumentalists, and led congregational singing and provided music for all worship services.
Between 1998 and 2022 Mr. Azzati was on the music faculty at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. He was the recipient of the 2005 T. Edgar Shields Prize for "excellence in studio teaching, contributions to music scholarship and participation in professional musical activities, and a quality relationship to music students." During his 25-year tenure at Moravian College and as an Artist-Lecturer in Voice and Conducting, he taught applied voice, voice-related courses and conducting. For 14 seasons he was also the director of the Moravian College Women's Chorus.
Mr. Azzati holds a Bachelor’s Degree in music with a specialization in choral conducting from Juan José Castro State Conservatory of Music, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Master's Degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ.
He is the co-founder, 2-term past president and current member of the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
Mr. Azzati resides in Bethlehem with his wife Carole Burkhardt, also a singer and retired music educator. They have three children, Mica, Lukas and Pablo and a short-haired German pointer/brown Lab mix, Hershey.
