Instructor of Voice
Phone: (239)590-7851
E-Mail: lbuffington@fgcu.edu
Office: Music Modular 8B

Lorine Buffington is currently an Adjunct Professor of Music at Florida Gulf Coast University and has previously served for more than 20 years on the Voice Faculty of the University of Miami Frost School of Music where, for 15 years, she was founder and director of the prestigious University of Miami Frost School of Music at Salzburg, a summer program for singers and pianists in Salzburg, Austria.  Additionally, she taught applied voice, art song literature, vocal diction and opera theater and served as interim chair of the Department of Vocal Performance.  Dr. Buffingrton has also taught at Miami Dade Community College, Barry University in Miami, Florida, The Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey and The Doylestown School of Music and the Arts in Pennsylvania.

She has performed more than 30 operatic roles with major opera companies in the US, Switzerland and Austria and has appeared with the Salzburg Festival, The Metropolitan Opera Studio, The Turnau Opera, The Opera Orchestra of New York, Das Raimund Theater in Vienna,Austria, Stadttheater Bern in Switzerland, and The Florida Grand Opera.

A recipient of two Rockefeller grants and a J. Ralph Corbett Foundation Grant, she holds MM and DMA degrees from the University of Michigan and has degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Academie Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

Her students have appeared at such venues as the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Sante Fe Opera, Chicago Lyric, The Vienna State Opera and other major companies as well as Broadway productions.