Faculty and Resident Artists

Mr. Scott Shively  (Baritone, Director)

Mr. Shively joined the faculty of Denver School of the Arts in the Fall of 1998. This year will mark his tenth year at DSA, although his 15th year as a public school teacher. He also was the choral director at Alhambra High School in Phoenix, AZ for four years and at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver for one year.  He currently directs Allegro Voce,  4Squared, and Chorale.  He also teaches the musical theater elective.

In 1986 he received his Bachelor of Music degree in Choral-General Music from Arizona State University and in 1993, a Master of Music degree in Voice Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. While in his graduate studies, he served as a Teaching Assistant in Voice as well as maintaining a private voice studio over the many years. Besides singing, Mr. Shively is an accomplished vocal accompanist.
        He has appeared with the Arizona State University Lyric Opera Theater, University of Colorado Lyric Theater Festival, South Suburban Theater Company, Evergreen Players, Evergreen Chorale, and the Central City Opera Outreach group Eureka! Some favorite roles include “Figaro” in The Marriage of Figaro, “Kodaly” in She Loves Me, “Despard” in Ruddigore, “Curly” and “Jud” in Oklahoma!, “Top” in The Tender Land, “Harold Hill” in The Music Man, and “Wayne” in State Fair.
        During the summer of 2000, he participated in the Vocal Arts Symposium sponsored by Opera Theater of the Rockies in Colorado Springs. There, he performed scenes from Die Fledermaus, Don Pasquale, Into the Woods and The Rake’s Progress, among others.
        He is currently a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, American Choral Directors Association, the National Education Association, and the Music Educators National Conference. Mr. Shively lives in Capitol Hill and shares his loft with a sixteen-year-old very furry, and sometimes psychotic feline, Sebastian.

Mr. Robert Styron  (Tenor, Director)

Mr. Styron is excited to start his fourth year with the voice faculty of Denver School of the Arts.  He directs Bellissima, Treble Choir, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble and teaches elective classes focusing on piano, music theory, music history, and ear-training.  A versatile educator and performer that has worked in a variety of venues in the Denver/Boulder area, Colorado Springs, Vail, Greeley, and New Orleans, Louisiana, he is currently co-chair of the DSA Arts Depeartment.

His degrees include a Bachelor of Arts-Vocal Music, and a Master of Public Administration from the University of New Orleans and a Master of Music Education with focuses in secondary choral music and jazz piano from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He recently completed a school executive prepartion program at the University of Denver.

Mr. Styron served two years as Director of Choirs for Mapleton Schools in Adams County. He spent three and a half years as Music Director and Accompanist at Shepherd of the Hills Church in Boulder and one year as Director of Music at Prince of Peace Church in Denver before taking a post as Vocal Coach for the Music Theater Department at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). While in New Orleans, Mr. Styron also served as Choir Director, Piano Instructor, and Talented Music Coordinator at Pearl River High School. He spent two years on faculty at the University of Northern Colorado teaching music at the Summer Enrichment Program for the Gifted and Talented. He was vocal music division chair of the Arts Advantage Summer Academy.

Mr. Styron is currently a member of the Music Educators National Conference, American Choral Directors Association, International Association of Jazz Educators, and the National Association of Gifted Children and the Colorado Association of School Executives. He lives in Park Hill and is a representative on the Greater Park Hill Board of Governors.

Ms. Amy Broken Leg   (Soprano)

Amy Broken Leg is a dynamic and engaging performer who is well known to opera audiences along the Front Range.  She consistently captivates her audiences with a voice that is warm and beautiful, easily handling a diversity of repertoire from opera to musical theater to sacred pieces and art song.   

In March 2007, Ms. Broken Leg made her debut with Loveland Opera Theater as Casilda in The Gondoliers. Previous performances include  Cio-cio-san in Madama Butterfly with Opera Fort Collins, Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Mrs. Jenks in The Tender Land, Martha Jefferson and Abigail Adams in 1776, The Soprano, Angel City Four in City of Angels, Marion Paroo in The Music Man, and Irene Molloy in Hello, Dolly!, among others.  She has been a guest soloist with The Longmont Symphony Orchestra, The 2003 Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, The Mostly Strauss Orchestra , and is a former member of the Eureka! ensemble with Central City Opera.  Amy continues to sing with Central City Opera, and has performed in CCO’s Opera Preview Program, singing excerpts from their past productions of La Traviata, Tales of Hoffman, Madama Butterfly, Vanessa and Don Giovanni.   She is also a long standing member of CCO’s education and outreach programs.

Ms. Broken Leg has been a finalist in the 2004, 2000 and 1999  Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competitions.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education from The Master’s College in Santa Clarita, CA, where she twice received the prestigious Paul T. Plew Excellence in Performance award. Ms. Broken Leg is currently part of the voice faculty at Denver School of the Arts, where she has been influential in creating and guiding the voice lesson program for the last nine years.   Fall 2007 will mark her third year as director of DSA’s opera scenes program, which she began for the Vocal Music Department in 2005.      

Ms. Broken Leg maintains a private studio at her home in Denver, where she resides with her husband, Jason, and two beautiful daughters, Olivia(9) and Abigail(6).
        

Dr. Rebecca Koenigberg   (Soprano)

Dr. Koenigberg, who has been a national finalist in the Metropolitan Opera auditions and other prestigious competitions, presents a number of recitals throughout the year. While an assistant professor of music education at Mississippi State University in Starkville, she was a regular guest artist with the Meridian Symphony Orchestra during her tenure in the deep South.

Dr. Koenigberg has performed roles with the Milwaukee Skylight Opera, New England Lyric, Chicago Pocket Opera, Ohio Light Opera, and Opera Colorado. She has also been a finalist in the San Francisco Opera competition, the Eleanor Lieber Awards and the Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition in Miami.

Koenigberg sang the world premiere of John Eaton's works Notes on Moonlight and Let's Get This Show On the Road with the Chicago Chamber Players. She has sung with the Musica Sacra Orchestra, the Arapahoe Philharmonic and the Longmont Symphony Orchestra and Choral, and she will be the featured soprano soloist with the Larimer Choral in their upcoming production of Orff's Catulli Carmina and Carmina Burana excerpts in the Fall of '05.  Ms. Koenigberg can also be seen in the role of Frasquita in Opera Colorado’s production of Carmen in November, 2005.

In 2003, Koenigberg was among ten MSU faculty to be awarded project grants through the school's Humanities and Arts Research Program. Koenigberg received her doctorate and master's degrees in vocal performance and pedagogy from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has a bachelor's degree from Concordia College in Moorhead MN. Koenigberg was recently a featured lecturer at the Colorado ACDA convention in July 2005, where she addressed the subject of healthy belt technique for young singers.

Dr. Koenigberg's best creative endeavor to date, has to be her daughter, Kaija Meta, and is the delight of her mommy's life. The Koenigberg family resides in Denver, where she teaches Private Voice, Voice Class and History of Musical Theater at Regis University.

Ms. Ingrid Thompson  (Pianist)

 Ingrid Thompson has been an active parent and musician at the Denver School
 of the Arts for seven years - ever since her son entered the school as a
 sixth grader.  He has graduated and moved on - she prefers to stay!  Ingrid
 graduated Cum Laude from Denver University's Lamont School of Music with a
 degree in music education.  She has taught middle and high school music, and
 held the position of organist-choirmaster at several Episcopal churches in
 Colorado.  She accompanies extensively at DSA and in several private voice
 studios.  She teaches piano and theory privately in her home and also has a
 part-time career as a massage therapist.