Dorothy Lincoln-Smith, left, and Arlyn Brewster are the chairs of the 2008 National Society of Arts and Letters Competition in Voice.

Dorothy Lincoln-Smith, Voice Category Chair

Dorothy Lincoln-Smith’s singing tours have taken her throughout the United States, the Orient, Europe and Australia. Concert venues have included the Chautauqua Institute, New York; Gammage Auditorium and Symphony Hall in Arizona; Sun Yat-Sen Auditorium, Taipei; Bunka Hall, Himeji, Japan; Linz Festival, Austria; Stadhalles in Germany; Ely Cathedral, England; Saint Chapelle, Paris; Chartres Cathedral; St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.

Dr. Lincoln-Smith earned music degrees at Cornell College in Iowa and at Arizona State University. She was a choral conductor in elementary, junior high and high schools in Iowa and Arizona and adjunct professor of voice at Phoenix College for 25 years. She has appeared as soloist with local and national orchestras and toured with the Roger Wagner Chorale. She was associated with the Phoenix Boys Choir from 1975-1999 as assisting artist on selected programs, as vocal coach and as tour coordinator. She is presently soloist at First Church of Christ Scientist in Phoenix and maintains a private voice studio. She is included in the 2006 edition of Who’s Who in American Women.

Dorothy and her husband, Harvey Smith (artistic director emeritus of the Phoenix Boys Choir), have created a series of teaching videos for younger singers: Singing and Growing. Dorothy serves as president of the Greater Arizona Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters. She is a member of the Board of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the Advisory Board of the Phoenix Boys Choir Association. She is a member of the Vestry and serves as lector and lay eucharistic minister at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church.

She and her husband are avid scuba divers and their dive sites are as varied as their concert venues.

Arlyn M. Brewster, Voice Career Awards Chair

Arlyn Brewster, an Arizona native, has conducted, staged or performed in literally hundreds of major musical theatre, opera, choral and orchestral presentations. She has conducted by invitation in Royal Albert Hall, London; Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; The Palace de Belles Artes, Mexico City; Symphony Hall and the Herberger Theatre in Phoenix.

Founder of Showcase Concerts Inc., which includes the Royal Renaissance Singers and Opera-Tunity, she continues serving on the Board of Directors directing Special Events, such as the recently acclaimed Singer Summer Sing Fling featuring two Metropolitan Opera singers. She is co-director of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, an appointed "volunteer" job she has continued to enjoy for 25 years.

Ms. Brewster served on the Board of Directors for Arizona Opera, Arizona State University College of Fine Arts and has been honored to be a three-time appointee to the Arizona Academy of Town Halls. She directs the Voice Category for the prestigious annual Young Artist Competition at the Herberger Theatre, serves as first vice president for the Greater Arizona Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters. Ms. Brewster has been narrator for the Phoenix Symphony and Arizona Ballet in numerous concerts that include "Peter and the Wolf," "Tom Twist," "Tubby the Tuba" and "Carnival of the Animals."

She enjoys serving as adjudicator for various organizations, teaching opera classes, guest lecturing and continuing participation in a wide variety of musical venues locally and across the country.

Hobbies: Travel, archaeology, history.

Most remarkable adventure: Falling out of a raft in the Zambezi River!

Personal: Married to Dr. Rex E. Brewster, four children, five grandchildren.