Since her college years in Tokyo, Japan, Mutsumi Moteki has been active as a vocal coach/accompanist. She received extensive training in this area from Westminster Choir College and University of Michigan as well as prestigious summer programs such as Music Academy of the West, Steans Institute for Young Artists, Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, and Conservatoire de musique in Genève. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she teaches singing diction, vocal repertoire, heads the musical staff of CU Opera, and is a member of the Collaborative Piano Faculty.