Susan Adams-Johnson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Instructor of Voice
Music
Music - Voice
Biography
Dr. Susan Adams-Johnson is a lyric soprano and has performed in numerous Oratorio Concerts at Westminster Abbey, York Minster Abbey, Chester Cathedral, and Saint Peter’s Church in Bermuda, Texas and Oklahoma. She has performed opera and operetta roles. She has traveled in Europe as a soloist in a Renaissance chamber music ensemble and she currently performs as a soloist with Scissortail Productions, multiple OKC Metro area churches, and has had many music ministry positions.
Dr. Adams-Johnson is the Executive Director and Co-Artistic Director of Scissortail Productions Inc., Clarion Arts and Media Inc., the Cordell Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council, the Heart of the Arts Council in Clinton, Oklahoma. She has served in similar positions for other non-profit music and theater organizations over the last 30 years in Oklahoma and Texas. Concurrent with her positions in art administration, she has held artistic and educational positions in higher education, elementary and junior high education. These responsibilities have included professor of voice, artistic director of musical theatre and opera, interdisciplinary seminars in art history, film history, music and theater history, and rhetoric and critical thinking. She is currently faculty at the University of Oklahoma teaching in the Arts Management program.
A published author, conference, and workshop presenter both nationally and internationally, Dr. Adams-Johnson studies cultural capital, fine arts administration, music education for adults, voice, hymnody, and art history. She taught Pre-K through eighth grade general music and theater and has worked with junior high drama and music theater productions and collegiate opera programs. She has presented workshops for neurodivergent students and the fine arts, music and theater auditions, recruitment for fine arts majors, and stage movement and acting for opera. Dr. Adams-Johnson is a seasoned arts administration consultant and a fine arts dissertation and thesis consultant.
She holds a Masters in Vocal Performance and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts and Higher Education Administration from the University of Oklahoma.
