Monica A. Williams-McCullough, a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, began her career in teaching as an adjunct professor of music at the College of Southern Nevada. In 2014, Monica joined the music faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as an adjunct professor of voice, receiving a full-time appointment as visiting assistant professor of music in spring 2019. In 2018, she received UNLV’s College of Fine Arts Outstanding Part-Time Teacher of the Year Award and also the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Nevada Music Teachers Association. Her students are winners of national and regional voice competitions and attend summer festivals in Europe and the United States. Monica’s students have been accepted into Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices and several prestigious undergraduate and graduate voice programs, including the Eastman School of Music, the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern Bienen School of Music, University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.   

Monica has performed on the operatic stage and has appeared often as a concert and chamber soloist. She recently premiered songs by composer Scott Wheeler in a joint faculty recital. Other performance credits include appearances with Opera Las Vegas, Vegas City Opera, Euterpe Opera, Golden West Opera Theatre, Nevada Opera Theatre, Channel One Television, Peabody Opera Outreach, New West Stage Company, Bell Flower Symphony, American Youth Orchestra, Moore Park College Theatre, Huntington Chamber Players and the Valley Committee for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. 

Monica received her bachelor of music and master of music degrees from the University of Southern California. She continued her doctoral studies at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Currently, Monica is serving her third term as the Cal-Western Region Representative for the Student National Association of Teachers of Singing and recently completed two terms as the Nevada District Governor for the Cal-Western Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. In addition, Monica is the Director of Opera Discovery and the Intermediate Program at Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, which trains opera singers from all over the world for national and international careers.