Meet Paul McCready

Paul  McCready has had the pleasure of instructing many of our area’s talented singers for over 30 years. He has become known as an excellent communicator of vocal technique.

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Before creating Cincinnati Music Academy with Amy Rose Immerman and Lenore Wilkinson in 1997, Paul had the opportunity to explore the needs of the young professional singer as well as the avid avocational singer through his administrative service to other vocal institutions in the Cincinnati area.

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Paul’s students have received scholarships to many prestigious institutions including New York University, Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon, Notre Dame, Boston University, Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, Miami University and others. Some of his students have been awarded roles on Broadway (such as the most recent recasting of “Les Miserables”) and operatic/oratorio venues with the following companies/organizations: Cincinnati Opera, Columbus Opera, Whitewater Opera, New York City Opera, St Louis Opera, Dayton Opera, Musica Sacra, May Festival Chorus, Lebanon Symphonic Chorus, Cincinnati Choral Society and Dayton Bach Society. His students have performed for Paramount and Disney cruise lines.

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Paul believes strongly in avocational and semi-professional vocalists who choose to live a normal life and also participate in musical performances. His students regularly perform in sacred venues that are too numerous to mention and community/semi-professional theater such as Footlighters, Loveland Stage Company, East Side Players, Stage First, Cincinnati Music Theater, Knowles Corner, Playhouse in the Park, Ensemble Theater, and Sunset players.

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Paul studied with William McGraw for fifteen years and considers “Bill” to be his most important teaching mentor.

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Paul  credits the late Dr. Ira Zook and the Ohio University School of Music for his pursuit of a “complete musical life” and an education that stimulated life-long learning. Paul regularly sends the message that it is not the institutions that empower great musical talent but the individual efforts of devoted teachers that unlock the potential in all of us with regard to music or other disciplines.

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