Past Events

Highlighted below are a few of our past chapter events.

The Stars of Innovation with Keli Nicole Price!

On Wednesday, March 19, we were joined by award-winning singer-songwriter Keli Nicole Price, known for her hits with icons like Beyoncé and Missy Elliott. We enjoyed an inspiring Q&A, a masterclass for emerging songwriters, and a live performance of her celebrated song "Déjà Vu."

Thank you to our partners at the Hamilton-Garrett Center for Music & Arts for co-hosting this event, and a huge thank you to everyone who attended and the amazing young songwriters who shared their songs and worked with Keli!

NATS Boston: A Day of Learning with W. Stephen Smith

We partnered with Boston Conservatory Interim Dean of Music Isai Jess Muñoz and the new Boston Conservatory SNATS Chapter on our first event of the 2023-2024 season: a day of learning with W. Stephen Smith, author of The Naked Voice: A Wholistic Approach to Singing. This event took place at Boston Conservatory of Music on Saturday, October 21st from 1:00-4:00pm, and involved a Professional Development Workshop for teachers (1:00-2:15pm), a Masterclass for students (2:30-4:00pm), and an opportunity for the NATS Boston community to network and socialize. 
Lift Ev'ry Voice: Celebrating the Music of Black Americans
The Aeolians of Oakwood University, Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, and Harvard Choruses presented a concert on Friday, April 8 at 8 pm in Sanders Theatre for Lift Ev’ry Voice: Celebrating the Music of Black Americans. The program featured premieres of works by Marques L. A. Garrett and Rosephanye Dunn-Powell in honor of Eileen Southern, the first Black woman tenured at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 

On Saturday morning April 9th at 9am in Sanders Theatre, the Holden Voice Program of the Harvard Choruses joined with NATS Boston to co-sponsor a masterclass with clinicians Marques Garrett, Felicia Barber, and Brandon Waddles.  

After the Masterclass, there was a family-friendly Community Sing on Saturday, April 9 at 11 am at Harvard's Science Center Plaza tent, led by five engaging and nationally renowned choral conductors who led the audience through a program of songs from our country’s greatest choral tradition: the music of Black Americans. 
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This one-time meeting was a chance for all of us to get together and reflect on the year that passed after the Table for More Series. Key questions included: What did we learn? What inner work did we do, and what outward behaviors and actions reflected that change? How do our studios, organizations, and systems look today, and what do we still dream they can become? How are we doing in this marathon we are running together? 
NATS Boston Focus Topic Series
We recognized the need for interactive discussion surrounding the discrimination and injustice in our field, especially as we continued to navigate challenges of COVID-19. The issues surrounding accessibility, inclusion, and equity demanded our attention and action more than ever.  

As a first step in this continued journey, we offered "Table for More": a 4-part Interactive Webinar Series, presented by G. Phillip Shoultz, III of VocalEssence (Minneapolis) and co-hosted by NATS Boston, Boston Singers' Resource, and the Greater Boston Choral Consortium. 
2019 NATS INTERN PROGRAM AT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY - PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
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JUNE 4TH - 12TH, 2019
FREE ADMISSION
NEC - PIERCE HALL

Presentations by:
Tana Feld
Lynn Helding
Dan Johnson-Wilmot
JJ Penna
​Mary Stucky
Dana Varga
​Kevin Wilson

MYOFASCIAL RELEASE EXPERIENCE with Taylor Stilson

Saturday, March 23rd 4-6pm
Futura Production Studio
4 Belgrade Ave
Roslindale, MA 02131

Self-guided massage/Masterclass integrating body mapping and vocal exploration guided the participants toward a more integrative understanding of voice function. 
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Taylor Stilson joined the voice faculty of Boston Conservatory at Berklee in 2018 and currently teaches at Brown University and Phillips Andover Academy. Mr. Stilson has crafted a unique career as vocal pedagogue, singer, yogic practitioner, and holistic body-mind modality enthusiast. As vocal pedagogue, Taylor has lectured on vocal
anatomy, physiology, and vocal health at Brown University, The Boston Conservatory Dance Division, and University of Miami Frost School of Music. His past and current students have placed finals in the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions, Classical Singer Convention, NATS, and have been seen in regional theaters in Miss Saigon, Hair, and Newsies, and regional and international tours. His yogic and body modality exploration has deeply influenced his voice teaching. He utilizes Iyengar and Yin Yoga alignment techniques and myofascial work in his teaching. In addition, he has found hypnosis and limbic-disassociative cognitive exercises to be highly beneficial for students suffering from performance anxiety and anxiety-induced Muscle Tension Dysphonia.
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​Taylor Stilson recently completed his first year of D.M.A. studies in Vocal Pedagogy and Performance at University of Miami. He received an M.M. in Vocal Pedagogy with Collaborative Piano Studies and a B.M. in Vocal Performance from The Boston Conservatory. He taught for The Boston Conservatory’s Vocal/Choral Intensive from 2007-2011 and The Boston Conservatory's MEIP Voice Program in 2012. Mr. Stilson has completed additional studies in voice, opera, and piano at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Michigan Opera Theatre, New York Opera Studio, Spring Arbor University, and Interlochen Center for the Arts. He has studied voice with Kevin Wilson, Jayne Sleder, Bill Cotten, and Dr. William Christensen, and has coached with Dr. Karl Paulnack, Andrew Altenbach, Michael Strauss, Allison Voth, and Nico Castel.

As singer, Mr. Stilson has been seen as Valentin (Faust), Prince Igor (Prince Igor), Marcello (La Bohème), Falstaff (The Merry Wives of Windsor), and Ariodate (Serse) at The Boston Conservatory. He has been a featured soloist with The Boston Conservatory Orchestra in Dr. William Cutter's Spring Ritual, Haydn’s Theresienmesse, Hindemith’s Apparebit repentina dies, Lizst’s Via Crucis with the Boston Conservatory Chorale, and with the Orchestra of Trinity Church, Boston in the Messiah and Saint- Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël. He maintains active voice studios in Boston (MA), Providence (RI), New York City, and Miami (FL).

Back to Basics: Creating Technical Blueprints for Students
​with Michael Hanley

Sunday, October 7th 2-3:30pm
Houston Hall, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
8 Fenway, Boston

​This workshop discussed common technical demands faced by singers of every genre, and gave teachers and students an opportunity to devise a "technical blueprint" for the year. ​
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Michael Hanley is a sought-after pedagogue, combining his experience as a classical singer and teacher into well-rounded classical and musical theater teaching styles. His students have achieved success in a variety of genres including musical theater, opera, and commercial music. From 2013 to 2015, Hanley served on the faculty of Syracuse University's Department of Drama and Setnor School of Music, where he taught voice, voice for musical theater, and musicianship courses.
 
Hanley was most recently seen at the Aspen Music Festival in 2015, performing the role of Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, and as a guest artist with Penn State Opera Theatre in La Bohème. Other notable credits include James Vane in The Picture of Dorian Gray (Aspen Opera Theater Center, 2014), Spinelloccio in Gianni Schicchi (Aspen Opera Theater Center, 2013), and the title role in Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor (Eastman Opera Theatre, 2010).
 
Hanley is actively engaged in academic research and recently presented his work Bridging the Gap between Theatre Voice Training and the Male Singing Voice with colleague Jared Trudeau at the Fall Voice Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also studied entrepreneurship and the integration of entrepreneurship in Conservatory curricula as a Kauffman Entrepreneurial Scholar at the University of Rochester.  
 
Hanley holds a B.M. from the Eastman School of Music and an M.M. in voice pedagogy and performance from Penn State University. Hanley was a 2016 NATS Teaching Intern and maintains private voice studios in Boston and New York. Additionally, he serves on the voice faculty of the Walnut Hill School for the Arts.​

NATS Boston Summer BBQ
Saturday, August 26th 2017
5:00 - 8:00 PM

 A fun night of socializing, fun food, and drink with the NATS-Boston Board! The NATS Board BBQ is a fabulous way to meet other area teachers, talk shop, and share ideas for the upcoming school year.

Lecture and Master Class with Matt DeAngelis and Christine Dwyer
Monday, August 14th 2017
2:00 – 4:30 PM

Matt DeAngelis – a veteran of over 800 performances of the hit musical Hair including Broadway, The West End, and National Tour playing the role of Woof. He also launched the 1st National Tour of Green Day’s American Idiot and was seen playing multiple instruments in the Tony Award Winning musical Once as Svec. Matt can now be seen in the Broadway hit, Waitress at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Christine Dwyer – after graduating with a BFA from The Hartt School, toured the US, Canada, and Japan playing Maureen in the national tour of RENT. She is best known for touring the country and flying into Broadway as Elphaba in Wicked. She has donned the green as Elphaba over 1000 times including the 2014 Tony Awards to celebrate the show’s 10 year anniversary. Christine is now touring the country as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in Finding Neverland, the Musical.
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Location: Futura Productions, 4 Belgrade Avenue, Roslindale, MA.
Tickets: $15.00 in advance for NATS members and their students. All others $20.00.

Lecture and Master Class with Marcelle Gauvin
Sunday, June 4th 2017
2:00 – 4:30 PM

Marcelle walked us through the history of pop music and styles. She showed us the differences between the genres, and taught us how to listen and help our students perform to the highest level. Marcelle brought energy, spirit and love to her teaching. We all left this class energized and enthusiastic with great tools to bring back to our studios!

Marcelle Gauvin is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston where she serves as the department’s voice retraining specialist. She also heads the CCM/Jazz voice studio at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and is faculty at the CCM Institute and Shenandoah Conservatory. She performs regularly as a jazz vocalist after the success of her two nationally recognized recordings “The Edge of the Pond” and “Faces of Love” with the Whaling City Sound label and recently released a new recording of original compositions by composer Fred Fried.
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Location: Futura Productions, 4 Belgrade Avenue, Roslindale, MA.

Kenneth Bozeman Boston Workshops 
October 3rd and 4th, 2016

Internationally published voice science author and voice clinician Kenneth Bozeman came to Boston for a workshop and masterclass based on his book, “Practical Vocal Acoustics.” He is especially gifted at explaining the often complex subject of formants, formant tuning, and acoustic registration events in the singing voice. This workshop and masterclass was be free of charge and marked a new collaboration between the New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, and NATS Boston. Learn more about Bozeman’s work here. 
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