Emily Siar

Position
Instructor of Voice
Affiliated Departments
Expertise
musical theater
classical music
vocal pedagogy

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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 instructor 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. As a 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, vocal 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 active performer of opera, art song, chamber music, new music, musical theater, and cabaret, Siar has performed 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. She has been featured as an artist with Boston Baroque, the Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Boston Opera Collaborative, and Mass Opera.

Recent Notable Work

  • The Aria Project (Boston Opera Collaborative)
  • Pierrot Lunaire (NEC Contemporary Ensemble)
  • Opera in the Gardens (Boston Opera Collaborative)
  • Featured artist (Mass Opera)
  • Featured artist (Greensboro Symphony Orchestra)
  • Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica (New England Conservatory)
Career Highlights
  • Artist, Boston Baroque
  • Artist, Henry Purcell Society of Boston
  • Artist, Boston Opera Collaborative
  • Featured Presenter, Boston Conservatory Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop (2022)
  • Master Class Clinician, New England Conservatory (2023)
Awards
  • Voice Intern, National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program (2021)
  • DMA Prize Instructorship in Music History, New England Conservatory (2020)
  • Presser Graduate Grant Recipient (2019)
  • Kenan Music Scholar