Dr. Joshua Glasner is a clinical fellow in voice and upper airway at the Lions Voice Clinic at the University of Minnesota. He also serves as adjunct faculty for New York University’s online Certificate of Vocology program where he teaches vocometry. He previously held academic positions in both speech-language pathology and voice performance and pedagogy at various universities. He also has taught courses in voice pedagogy and voice research & technology at the University of Delaware, Westminster Choir College’s Summer Voice Pedagogy Institute, the Acoustic Voice Pedagogy Workshop at New England Conservatory, the Voice Study Centre, and the Voice Pedagogy Professional Workshop at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Dr. Glasner is passionate about bridging the gap between the art and science of singing.
Dr. Glasner’s multidisciplinary research involves topics including treatment efficacy, room acoustics, historical recordings technology, and singing voice science. In 2016, he
was selected to present his dissertation topic at the Voice Foundation’s New Investigator Research Forum where he received mentoring by leaders in the voice science community. Since then, Dr. Glasner’s work has been presented at various national and international conferences including the Voice Foundation Symposium, the International Congress of Voice Teachers, and Meetings of the Acoustical Society of America. His dissertation was completed in collaboration with the Thomas Edison National Historical Park (West Orange, NJ) and with the help of professional opera singers in New York City. It used modern signal processing methods to help the field of vocal pedagogy understand historical singing techniques given the limitations of historical recording technology. A portion of this study related to vibrato measurements has been published in the Journal of Voice. More recently, Dr. Glasner’s research has branched into studying listener perception of singing, historical vocal pedagogy, the transgender singing voice, and treatment efficacy.
Dr. Glasner holds a Ph.D. in Voice Performance (Vocal Pedagogy Specialization) from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. During his time at NYU, he studied vocal pedagogy and voice science through an interdisciplinary curriculum that combined Vocal Pedagogy, Voice Performance, Music Technology, and Speech Language Pathology. Additionally, he holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and University of Delaware in Vocal Pedagogy and Performance (Pedagogy Emphasis) and Applied Voice, respectively, and a Certificate in Vocology from the National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS). His clinical graduate degree in Speech-Language Pathology was earned at Delaware Valley University. His clinical education includes voice, upper airway, and swallowing-focused clinical externships at the Johns Hopkins Voice Center and the Duke Voice Care Center, as well as placements focusing on adult neurogenic disorders and pediatric AAC. He is affiliated with the Voice Foundation, the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the Pan-American Vocology Association (PAVA), the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).