Baritone Stephen Lusmann, the featured artist in the November free noon concert at Schoolcraft College, will perform a wide ranging program with selections from Bach, Liszt, Skelton and Verdi. Lusmann will perform Wednesday, Nov. 8 in the Presentation Room of the VisTaTech Center.

Lusmann has sung leading roles with major opera houses in Europe and America, tours with the New York City Opera under such conductors as Leonard Slatkin and Franco Zefferelli, and has performed solo concerts at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center.

An associate professor of voice at the University of Michigan School of Music, Lusmann also is a member of the voice faculty at the Seagle Music Colony, the oldest continuous summer vocal training program in the United States.

His recordings include Der Friedenstag, Operngala and E.E. Cummings: An American Circus. Before his university appointment, Lusmann maintained a private voice studio in New York City and Princeton, New Jersey.

Accompanist Jean Schneider earned master’s degrees in piano performance and piano accompanying from the U-M School of Music. She has served on the faculties of Miami University of Ohio and the University of Alaska Summer Fine Arts Camp. She works with many Detroit area soloists and ensembles, including the Michigan Opera Theatre and the U-M Musical Society Choral Union.

Schoolcraft College is a public two-year college, offering classes at the Livonia campus on Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile roads, at the Radcliff Center in Garden City and online.