Charles Stanton currently serves as the Managing Director of the Houston
Masterworks Chorus in Houston Texas. Charles is the former Director of Opera
and Voice Lecturer at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. After several
successful years at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH; and five successful full
productions at Old Dominion University, Charles is thrilled to be counted among
the accomplished musicians of Houston Masterworks Chorus.

Charles holds the degrees Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Bachelor of Music in Vocal
Performance from Wingate University. Charles completed additional studies in Voice
at Oberlin Conservatory in the studio of the renowned vocal pedagogue, Richard
Miller.

Mr. Stanton continued his studies in Europe in Mannheim, Germany with artists and
coaches of the Mannheim City Opera. While there, he studied and performed six
principal roles as well as several considerable main stage roles with the City
Opera. Prior to his move to New Hampshire, Charles was a faculty member at
Central Piedmont College, Forsyth College and the University of North Carolina
system. He is active as a vocal artist throughout the United States and abroad. He
has been a guest artist with Opera Carolina, Long Leaf Opera, Greensboro Opera,
Triad Opera, Central Piedmont Opera, Piedmont Opera, Newberry Opera, Atlanta
Opera and Mannheim City Opera and most recently with Granite State Opera,
Manchester Choral Society and the Dartmouth Handel Society. Mr. Stanton was
also on the founding Board of Directors for the Boston Opera Collaborative, a
thriving  regional young vocal artist venue for greater New England Artists.

While in New England, Charles was honored with his appointment as Executive
Director and Conductor of the Portsmouth Men's Chorus and the Artistic
Director of the Sandpipers Children's Chorus.  He has conducted and directed in
multiple venues including Plymouth State University, Central Piedmont College,
Concord Players of NH, Greensboro Repertory Theatre and for members of the
South Carolina Arts Coalition.  In 2005, Charles was  honored with a young
concert artist award, for which one can only be considered by way of nomination
from other internationally established professionals in classical vocal music.