Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Vocal Arts Department accomplishes the extraordinary, meeting the needs of its community and the evolving industry through relevant curriculum and through a myriad of exciting opportunities on our campus every day. The scope and variety of annual Vocal Arts Department performances and curated offerings testify to the ways Boston Conservatory mentors its students to thrive as artist-citizens in an ever-changing world and marketplace. We continue building on the rich history of our Vocal Arts Department, which houses the oldest opera training program in America and has served young artists, the field of singing, and the city of Boston for over 150 years. Indeed, our students, faculty, and staff are heirs to a harvest of memory, spirit, dreams, and music that long preceded us. Alongside the canon of great music of the ages, we delve into new works that challenge and teach us. This wide-ranging history and view to the future sustains and inspires us.
Now in its third year, the Conservatory’s educational and artist development partnership with our neighbor Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is in full swing. The partnership unlocks incredible opportunities for Boston Conservatory students and members of BLO’s Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artists, and includes the Opera Innovators Series, a curated collection of talks and master classes that engage some of the most innovative and sought-after figures in the opera world. Additionally, Vocal Arts Department classes in art song, vocal pedagogy, and the choral arts, encompass an exceptional lineup of visiting clinicians, each of whom brings their own powerful and distinct voice to bear on our season’s productions and curricula.
I am so grateful to our generous donors whose giving provides access to the tools and resources our students need to succeed here and beyond. Providing a transformative, high level of training is the Conservatory’s reason for being. Our faculty and administration are deeply committed to fostering a genuine sense of community which defines the Conservatory’s learning and performance environments. There is an ethic of care here that champions people’s goals and aspirations in ways where they feel creative, safe, powerful, and courageous, in and through the learning. We’re helping students build a life for themselves through music that has purpose and that, in its unique way, will change the world. With a faculty of international renown, an impressive annual lineup of important visiting artists, and a strong commitment to a meaningful list of civic and global initiatives, Boston Conservatory’s Vocal Arts Department is an exciting place to be!
I hope you enjoy your experience with us today, and I welcome you to join us again often.
—Sara Goldstein, Interim Chair of Vocal Arts
