From my “singer” bio:
DR. TERENCE KELLY received his undergraduate and master’s training in music from Eastern Illinois University. After apprenticing with the Des Moines Metro Opera he was awarded a Rotary Graduate Fellowship for study with Anton Dermota of the Vienna State Opera. A prize winner at the Franz Schubert Institute for German Lieder, Dr. Kelly has coached with Elly Ameling, Jörg Demus, Hans Hotter, Gérard Souzay, and numerous other professional artists. He has been featured on Austrian National Radio, Allegro con brio in Rome, RKO radio in the USA, as well as Wisconsin and Minnesota Public Radio. He has performed extensively in the Washington D.C. area with the Wolf Trap Chamber Singers, Opera Casalinga, Opera Shop, Interact, and Washington Pro Musica and has appeared at the National Cathedral, the National Theatre, and the Smithsonian.
Of course, most classical singers need another job to support their families, and I taught singing for thirty years at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
What my singer and professor bios won’t say was that I began my college years intending to be an electrical engineer and was introduced to computer programming before the era of personal computers took off. When I purchased an Atari ST computer in 1986 to write my doctoral dissertation about a Russian composer, it came with two programming languages and a rudimentary word processor. There was no inexpensive software that could handle multiple character sets at the same time. I had to program my own font designer to create and download a cyrillic font to my dot matrix printer and trick my word processor into using that character set at the correct time. (Ah, the frontier days!) Music notation software was then in its infancy: expensive, slow, and clumsy to use. I decided to try writing my own, as I did some composing and my handwritten notation was not very legible. That software has grown into a fine notation editor I now call Prima Voce. Prima Voce and SE Plus, my companion music-scanning software, are the tools that have been used to produce DSC’s collections. Those collections are the tools I wished I had had as a vocal instructor and singer. I offer them to you.