11 Facts About Florence Kimball

Florence Page Kimball was an American soprano who became a celebrated voice teacher at the Juilliard School where she taught for 46 years.

Florence Kimball taught hundreds of students, and many of her pupils had successful performance careers.

Florence Kimball later studied the piano with Mary Alport, Carlo Buonamici and Arthur Shepherd in the United States.

In 1927 Florence Kimball replaced Sembrich at Juilliard when she retired.

Florence Kimball continued to teach at Juilliard until her retirement 45 years later in 1972.

Florence Kimball had hundreds of voice students during her tenure; many of whom had successful careers, including: Annamary Dickey, Martha Flowers, Sung Sook Lee, Jean Madeira, Joyce Mathis, Mariquita Moll, Regina Sarfaty, Nigi Sato, Wilma Shakesneider and Veronica Tyler.

Florence Kimball told me there was an innate quality of dignity in my voice, and that I moved like I sounded.

Florence Kimball made her New York debut on December 3,1925, at Aeolian Hall while studying with Sembrich.

In 1929 she starred in the Cal Levance Show, a vaudeville-style production featuring multiple kinds of entertainments including Florence Kimball performing Verdi arias, which started in Chicago and then toured to other cities including a stop at the Cincinnati Music Hall.

Florence Kimball died at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers in Greenwich Village at the age of 87.

Florence Kimball was a friend of composer Samuel Barber, who dedicated his choral work "To Be Sung on the Water" to her.