Soprano Martha Malone joined the faculty of Mercer University in 1990 as Director of Mercer University Opera and Coordinator of Vocal Studies. She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, as well as awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and the Goldovsky Foundation. Comfortable in musical styles from classical to jazz and musical theater, she performs as a principal in concerts, recitals, and productions throughout the United States. Recent engagements include a solo recital at Ames Hall in New York; a benefit recital for Atlanta Opera; the Mozart Requiem with the Macon Civic Chorale; Silenced Voices: Music of the Holocaust at James Madison University; Vivian Fine: from Chamber Opera to Art Song at the Fifth Festival of Women Composers in Indiana, PA.; numerous performances of her one-woman cabaret, Songs of Romance and Satire from Paris, and the role of the Witch in Into the Woods. She is a featured soloist on Mystic Chords of Genocide: Music of the Holocaust, a compact disc on a.c.a. Digital Recording, released in 2001. A former board member of Opera For Youth, Inc., Education Chair for the Central Georgia Opera Guild, and former Education Chair for the Ga. Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, she is active in bringing opera to young audiences is an advocate for opera education nationwide.

Dr. Malone is proud of the success of her pupils; graduates of her voice studio are singing with Palm Beach Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera North, Omaha Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Opera Omaha, Teatro Carlo Fenice in Genoa, Opera in the Ozarks, Florida Grand Opera, and others.. Her former pupils have won awards in competitions sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council, Palm Beach Opera, Birmingham Opera, and have been accepted at Indiana University, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, the Fletcher Opera Institute at North Carolina School of the Arts, Eastman School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Texas Tech University, and the American Institute of Musical Studies at Graz, Austria.