Meet the Editors
Dr. Julia Nafisi
Julia Nafisi began her voice training in her hometown Munich/Germany under Kammersänger Friedrich Lenz and continued her studies in Vienna/Austria with, amongst others, Prof. KS Hilde Rössel-Majdan and Prof. KS Walter Berry, finishing with the Bühnenreifeprüfung Oper (Final Stage Examination Opera). She has appeared in opera, oratorio and recital throughout Europe and has for many years collaborated with Viennese Prof. Müller-Preis in her ‘breath-voice-movement’ (Atem-Stimme-Bewegung) work.
Upon moving to Australia, Julia has completed a MMus (Vocal Pedagogy) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, a Grad Dip Ed at the Australian Catholic University and a PhD at Monash University. She divides her time between performing, teaching and researching, the latter with a focus on 'the role of gesture and body-movement in voice teaching/therapy and performance' as well as 'German Lieder in Australia' and has published numerous articles on both topics. Julia currently teaches Voice at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Audiology and Speech-Pathology at the University of Melbourne.
Julia is the current president of the Victorian chapter of ANATS and a national board director of ANATS Ltd. She took on the role of editor of Australian Voice in early 2018 and is looking forward to expanding the scope and impact of the journal to affirm its place within the international landscape of scholarly publications in the field of singing and voice pedagogy.
Dr. Dale Cox
Dale Cox is a singing teacher, researcher, and performer who began her studies with Alan Dean in Sydney, Australia. She holds a PhD from USQ, a M. Mus. Stud. (Voice Pedagogy) from QCGU, and a BA (Music, English) from UNSW. Her teaching and research experience extends internationally from Australia to the Middle East, the UK and the USA. Most recently, she was an assistant professor of music at Coastal Carolina University.
She has taught at the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy in the UAE, was a visiting research scholar at Shenandoah Conservatory during her doctoral studies, and she has worked with students at various universities in the USA including NYU, Temple University, Penn State University, Auburn University, and at Classical Singer Conventions where she was also a judge for the musical theatre competition. She teaches musical theatre, commercial music styles, and jazz singing.
A published author, her book, Exposing the Chasms in Voice Pedagogy: Playing the Field, was published by Routledge in 2024. She is the co-author of the chapter “Pedagogy of Western Musical Theatre Singing” in the upcoming The Oxford Handbook of Voice Pedagogy and her research has been presented at The Voice Foundation, the International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT), The National Association of Teachers (NATS), and the Musical Theatre Educators Alliance (MTEA).
She is the chair of the Musical Theatre Educators Alliance (MTEA) Voice Advisory Board. Previous service includes vice-president for International Membership for the MTEA and secretary for the Queensland Chapter of ANATS. She is thrilled to join the editorial team at Australian Voice journal.