Blaine F. Heeter III

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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Blaine F. Heeter III is the Graduate Teaching Assistant for the vocal and choral departments at Wright State University where he is currently pursuing his master’s degree in vocal performance. Blaine has been studying and performing music and theater since childhood. His adventure began at the age of nine when he was cast as Tiny Tim in his hometown community theater’s production of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. The theater served as a playground where Blaine could cultivate his artistic abilities through his youth and young adult life. Some early productions include Oliver, Anything Goes and Barnum.

Blaine began his collegiate career as a music performance major at Sinclair Community College where he earned his associate’s degree in 2005.  That same year he transferred to Bowling Green State University to begin working towards his bachelor’s in vocal performance. While attending BGSU Blaine was involved in the opera theater’s production of Die Zauberlöte, participated in a vocal master class with Julliard pianist, Margo Garrett and in 2007 had the privilege of playing the male lead in Francesco Cavalli’s 1642 opera, La virtù dei strali d’Amore for it’s North American debut in collaboration with early music musicologist, Paul O’Dette and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

After graduating from BGSU in 2007, Blaine moved back to the Dayton area where he opened a small studio teaching private vocal and piano lessons. Over the next six years the studio grew into a successful business he named The Main Voice Vocal and Piano Studio, which he currently owns and operates in Englewood, Ohio, Arcanum, Ohio and Richmond, Indiana.  Blaine’s students have been accepted into such music performance schools as the Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton and the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Blaine’s students have also received superior ratings in OMEA solo and ensemble adjudicated events in both piano and voice.

In addition to teaching private lessons, Blaine has also served as music director for Richmond Civic Theatre’s Stage One youth theater program in the summers of 2003 and 2004.  In 2009, he also served as music director for the Vandalia Youth Theatre’s production of Les Misérables. Earlier that same year Blaine portrayed the role of Lumière in Richmond Civic Theatre’s Main Stage production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
Blaine performed as a member of the Dayton Opera Chorus for La Traviata, also in 2009, the 2005 production of Tosca and the 50th Anniversary Star Gala in 2011. Other engagements have included numerous events and musical theater productions in the Dayton area.

Blaine is excited to be a part of Wright State’s music department and looks forward to his graduate experience, both learning and serving, while attending.