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Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	University Professor
Location	Birmingham, AL, United States
Introduction	My name isn't as hard as it looks! Pronounce it like this: "Hurst" (that's the easy part) "Vice-Check." My students usually call me "Dr. Kris." At UAB, I teach voice, direct the opera program, and teach Wellness courses both for the Department of Music and the Honors College.
Interests	Opera, art song, gardening, kayaking, skiing
Favorite movies	The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Frequency, Elizabeth, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Shakespeare in Love, Sabrina, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Princess Bride, Becoming Jane, The Shawshank Redemption
Favorite music	Almost anything classical (the list is enormous), Eric Clapton, Ella Fitzgerald, James Taylor, Queen, Santana, Miles Davis, Harry Connick, Tony Benett, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac
Favorite books	Brain Rules, The Da Vinci Code, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Blink, Cold Mountain, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Long Fatal Love Chase, On Singers and Singing, Power Performance, poetry by Rilke, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Lord Byron's Don Juan