Emily Siar

I seek to guide students toward achieving a functional, efficient vocal technique that will allow them to unleash their unique artistic potential. I am deeply committed to helping my students sing with a greater degree of ease, freedom, and joy.

Emily Siar joined the Conservatory in 2021 as an assistant professor of voice. She teaches applied voice for musical theater and vocal performance as well as the two-semester undergraduate vocal pedagogy curriculum, and Cabaret and Culture, a repertoire course she designed. A skilled vocal pedagogue and diagnostician, Siar is dedicated to guiding each young artist in her studio to develop a sustainable, flexible vocal technique. Her teaching is rooted in a deep and continual study of anatomy and physiology, body mapping, voice repertoire and style, voice science, and acoustics, mindfulness, and psychology.

Siar holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in vocal performance and pedagogy with a minor in musicology from New England Conservatory of Music. Additionally, she earned a Master of Music in vocal performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having graduated summa cum laude as a Kenan Music Scholar. In addition to her institutional training, Siar has completed Levels I, II, and III of Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method and is a graduate of the New CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah University.

An accomplished soprano, Siar was the first-place winner of the prestigious NATS Artist Awards competition in 2024. She regularly performs opera art song, chamber music, new music, musical theater, and cabaret, and has recently been featured on the stages of Jordan Hall, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Kodak Hall, Huntington Theatre Company, the Paramount Theater, and the Granada Theatre Santa Barbara. Siar regularly works with Boston Baroque, the Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Boston Opera Collaborative, and Mass Opera.