Guest Artists

Soyeon Kate Lee is on the piano faculty at the Juilliard School of Music and the Bowdoin International Summer Piano Festival. She formerly was professor at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and is in great demand for master classes around the world.

Winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Concert Artists Guild Award, Korean American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee enjoys a thriving career as a soloist and chamber musician. 

An interdisciplinary portrait concert of music by Ryan Suleiman with musical performance and stage direction by C. Neil Parsons and his colleagues from the Fourth Wall Ensemble, this program embraces and extends the inherent theatricality of musical performance, with an emphasis on nature and the climate crisis. 

Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera present a master class with award-winning mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as part of the Opera Innovators Series.

Vocal artist and pedagogue Jamon Maple will facilitate an interactive and reflective session designed to foster community, conversation, and vocal exploration. 

Corey Hamm is professor of piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His students have won numerous prizes and awards, including first prize in the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition.

Corey Hamm is one of the world’s foremost champions of contemporary piano music. For Piano Masters, he will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the spectacular The People United Will Never Be Defeated! by Frederic Rzewski.

Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Boston Lyric Opera present an afternoon of conversation with soprano Christine Goerke.

Guest artists andPlay present a concert of new music by student composers, as part of the 2025 New Music Festival.

Guest artists andPlay (featuring Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola) present a concert of exciting contemporary music for their duo, including a major work by faculty member Victoria Cheah.