Boston Conservatory is reinventing conservatory education, and its graduates are the proof. Here is a look at just a few of the diverse global adventures in store for the class of 2019.
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In the rapidly changing world of the performing arts, Boston Conservatory at Berklee supports student success in a wide variety of fields and endeavors, from professional performing careers to education to health and medicine. Boston Conservatory is reinventing conservatory education, and its graduates are the proof. Here is a look at just a few of the diverse global adventures in store for the class of 2019.
S. Arthur Sicilia | Contemporary Dance
S. Arthur Sicilia (B.F.A. '19, dance) will move to Freiburg, Germany, to teach at DanceEmotion, a dance training school, and to dance with NeoDance Company, a professional jazz and contemporary dance company. Sicilia was afforded this opportunity after obtaining his Royal Academy of Dance teaching certification while at the Conservatory.
Matt Bardin | Composition
Matt Bardin (M.M. '19, composition) will move to Louisiana to begin an assistantship teaching music technology to dual-enrollment high school students while pursuing his Ph.D. in experimental music and digital media at Louisiana State University.
Shanelle Villegas | Contemporary Theater
Shanelle Villegas (B.F.A. '19, contemporary theater) will perform as Nana in SpeakEasy Stage Company’s production of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play while working as a teaching artist for Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Over the summer, she will intern in the training department of Shakespeare & Company before beginning a 10-week educational outreach tour with the New Repertory Theatre in the fall. Along with her fellow contemporary theater graduate Amanda Bowman, Villegas is also developing a new devised theater project that will be performed next year in an empty bank building.
Ariana Seidman | Vocal Pedagogy
Ariana Seidman (M.M. '19, vocal pedagogy) will pursue her M.S. in speech-language pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions.
Juliette Wooden | Contemporary Dance
Juliette Wooden (B.F.A. '19, dance) will move to London to dance with Rambert2, one of the world’s leading independent dance companies.
