Our Faculty

Voice Teachers
Darrell Babidge, Chair
Elizabeth Bishop
William Burden
Amy Burton
Cynthia Hoffmann
Kevin Short

Distinguished Visiting Faculty
Lawrence Brownlee
Denyce Graves

Music Faculty
John Arida
Steven Blier
Karen Delavan, Music Advisor for Master of Music and Graduate Diploma
Kayo Iwama
Bénédicte Jourdois
Justina Lee, Associate Artistic Director for Bachelor of Music
Kenneth Merrill
David Moody
Adam Nielsen, Associate Artistic Director for Master of Music and Graduate Diploma
Donald Palumbo
Diane Richardson, Principal Coach and Music Advisor for Artist Diploma in Opera Studies
Nicolò Sbuelz
Avi Stein
Pierre Vallet
Howard Watkins
Gary Thor Wedow
Reed Woodhouse
Brian Zeger, Artistic Director

Dramatic Faculty
Mary Birnbaum, Dramatic Advisor for Master of Music and Graduate Diploma
John Matsumoto Giampietro
Anne Shikany
Stephen Wadsworth, James S. Marcus Faculty Fellow, Director of Artist Diploma in Opera Studies

Movement and Physical Development
Lauren Schiff, Alexander Technique
Jeanne Slater

Diction and Language Faculty
Stefano Baldasseroni
Marianne Barrett
Kayo Iwama
Bénédicte Jourdois
Hemdi Kfir
Kathryn LaBouff
Ksenia Leletkina
Glenn Morton
Nils Neubert
Nicolò Sbuelz

Career Development
Alexandra Day

History of Singing
Cori Ellison

Graduate Student Career Consultant
Ken Benson

 

 

 

 


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Juilliard Vocal Arts Overview

Core Experiences

  • Performance Opportunities

    Performing before a live audience is an essential part of the Juilliard experience. Vocal arts students have an immense number of opportunities to perform at Juilliard, Lincoln Center, and beyond, including in fully staged and concert opera productions, opera scenes programs, performances at Alice Tully Hall, recitals like Liederabends and the Juilliard Songbook, and master classes with world-renowned singers and conductors like Joyce DiDonato, Fabio Luisi, Gerald Finley, and Emmanuel Villaume. 

  • Classroom Studies

    The Music Division’s main areas of classroom instruction—Ear Training, Music Theory and Analysis, Music History, and Keyboard Studies—complement your private lessons and performance experiences to broaden your understanding of the foundations of music and to provide a context for the music literature you study and perform. Juilliard’s Center for Innovation in the Arts equips students with skills to compose and perform music using new technology, and offers hands-on experience with state-of-the-art equipment.

  • Coaching

    At the heart of the Vocal Arts experience is the unparalleled access to the Marcus Institute’s world-class coaching faculty. From Italian to Russian diction, from the styles of Monteverdi to contemporary opera, from acting to movement, the Marcus Institute’s coaching faculty comprises a spectrum of specialists who are equipped to address almost any academic or artistic pursuit. All students from the undergraduate through Artist Diploma levels can request to work one on one with almost any member of the coaching faculty in order to help achieve their individual artistic, professional, and academic goals.

  • Liberal Arts

    Whatever your discipline, your development as an artist will be deepened by a foundation in the liberal arts, which provides the humanistic, ethical, social, critical, and aesthetic background essential to personal development and professional excellence. All undergraduate degree students take classes in literature, philosophy, history, social sciences, arts, and languages – studies that will help you develop a deeper understanding of yourself and the complex world in which you live. Through your coursework in liberal arts, you will refine your skills in reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking, and learn to communicate with greater clarity and effectiveness.

  • Entrepreneurship

    In the changing cultural landscape, performers must think more creatively about their careers than ever. While some pursue positions in traditional settings, others are exploring new ways to create opportunities that are both creatively satisfying and financially sustainable. The Alan D. Marks Center for Career Services and Entrepreneurship encourages leadership, initiative, and entrepreneurial thinking, enabling young performing artists to develop a more expansive view of success in the 21st century. It teaches students the skills essential for success in today’s entrepreneurial environment, with workshops in public speaking and business planning, panel discussions with industry leaders, and entrepreneurship residencies. It also facilitates more than 450 freelance performance opportunities for Juilliard students.

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Administrative Staff

Brian Zeger, Artistic Director
Andrew Gaines, Administrative Director
DeAnna Sherer, Associate Administrative Director
Anne Shikany, Assistant Director of Curriculum and Schedules
Mariel O'Oconnell, Assistant Director of Opera Activities
Amanda Seal, Production Administrator
Sofia Selowsky, Projects Administrator for Performance Activities
Anna Hlinomaz, Schedule and Program Administrator
Laura O’Neill, Administrative Apprentice