William McIver - Passages - Brief Article - Obituary

American Music Teacher, Dec, 2003

William McIver, president of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and longtime MTNA member, died September 15, 2003, after a long illness.

McIver was a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music. Previously, he was on the faculties of Lycoming College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he won the Outstanding Teaching Award in 1996.

He served NATS as North Carolina president, national secretary, vice president of discretionary funds and national president. He also was a member of MTNA's founding pedagogy committee and served on the AMT Editorial Committee.

McIver received his earliest musical training at the Columbus Boychoir School (now the American Boychoir) in Princeton, New Jersey. While a student there, he was chosen by Gian-Carlo Menotti to sing the tide role in Menotti's Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, which he performed annually on NBC television from 1952 through 1955. McIver received A.B. and B.M. degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory, an M.M. degree from the University of Illinois and a D.M.A. degree from West Virginia University. His teachers included Harold Bryson, Richard Miller, Grace Wilson and Jon Crain, and he coached with Paul Ulanowsky, James Benner, Igor Stravinsky and Lukas Foss.