Craig Juricka

As an advocate for the pedagogy behind a versatile mechanism, my goal as a voice teacher is to help foster sustainable technique permitting the ability to be expressive emotionally and physically in any genre of singing.

Craig Juricka joined the Conservatory in 2021 and is a lecturer of voice in the musical theater and voice/opera programs. Juricka is a vocal pedagogue, actor, and singer who has been praised by OperaToday as an “engaging, malleable baritone.” His versatile performance career has brought him to musical theater, concert, choral, and opera stages around the nation. As an advocate for the pedagogy behind a versatile mechanism, Juricka’s approach to teaching singing is rooted in his cross-trained background as a singer. Comfortable teaching all genres, he has worked with students from the high school through the graduate-degree level, as well as professional actors and singers. His students have been seen working on Broadway (Gypsy, Boop!, Funny Girl, Great Gatsby), in national tours (Jagged Little Pill), and in regional theater and opera houses throughout the US. His goal as a voice teacher is to help students access their strengths and develop their weaknesses, so they can become reliable and employable singers—developing their “tool belt” and ultimately fostering sustainable technique rooted in the ability to be expressive emotionally and physically in any genre of singing. In addition to Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Juricka holds voice faculty appointments at Berklee College of Music and the Walnut Hill School of the Arts. He also maintains a private studio in Melrose, Massachusetts.

Juricka recently was seen in the Boston POPS production of Ragtime as Harry K Thaw/Lower East Side Ensemble, in the Franklin Performing Arts Company’s Little Mermaid as King Triton, and in a Broadway Workroom workshop of Michael Mott’s new musical In the Light. In the concert singing world, Juricka is a sought-after soloist and chorister. He has sung with esteemed ensembles and orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Boston POPS, Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, Ensemble Altera, Emmanuel Music, Bach Akademie Charlotte, and Marsh Chapel. And he has performed in opera houses with Des Moines Metro Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Odyssey Opera, and MassOpera.

Juricka holds a Masters of Music in vocal pedagogy from Boston Conservatory at Berklee, as well as professional affiliations with the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and Early Music America. In 2016, he received his BM from Capital University in vocal performance with an emphasis on opera and musical theater. During the summers of 2021 and 2018, he was featured as an apprentice artist with Des Moines Metro Opera. In 2017, he was a national finalist in the Classical Singer Competition (Emerging Classical and Musical Theater Professional Division) in Chicago, Illinois.

Juricka is an active member of AEA (Actor’s Equity Association) and AGMA (American Guild of Musical Artists).

Career Highlights

• Billy Bigelow Understudy and Ensemble, Carousel, Boston Lyric Opera
• Harry K. Thaw and Ensemble, Ragtime, Boston POPS
• Man 2, Now. Here. This., Umbrella Stage

Professional Awards and Recognitions

• Finalist, Classical Singer Competition-Emerging Professional Division (Chicago, Illinois, 2017)

Notable Recent Engagements

• Fellow Travelers (Des Moines Metro Opera, 2021)—Senator Charles Potter
• Die Fledermaus (MassOpera, 2019)—Eisenstein