Jean Anderson
Lecturer in Music, Voice
Dr. Jean Anderson is a nationally-known vocal coach and pianist. She is the principal opera coach at Boston Conservatory, where she also coaches art song and teaches courses in operatic recitative and aria studies. She teaches foreign-language diction at the New England Conservatory of Music. She is active as a musical advisor, pianist, and coach for the Boston Opera Collaborative, and is the organist and choir director at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Scituate, MA. She is currently a part of the summer Canto Vocal Programs faculty. She has been a coach at Berklee College of Music’s Summer Opera Intensive in Valencia, Spain, a coach and pianist at the University of Alaska’s Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska, and a coach at Northern Arizona University’s summer opera program Flagstaff in Fidenza in Fidenza, Italy. She has been in residence at several schools of music including Rollins College and Northern Arizona University.
She has collaborated with many New England musical organizations, including Boston Lyric Opera, the Tanglewood Music Festival, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Opera Providence, Harvard University’s Summer Chorus, the Harvard-Radcliffe chorus, the Orpheus Singers, the Back Bay Chorale, MetroWest Opera, Longwood Opera, Brandeis University choruses, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also maintains an active schedule as a recitalist, performing with singers in the United States and Europe. Recent engagements have included concerts in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Rome, Santo Stefano, Italy, and Valencia, Spain. Her performance of Mirror with singers from the Boston Opera Collaborative was named one of the ten best Boston classical music performances of the year in Boston’s Classical Music Review. She performs often with her husband, baritone David Small.
Dr. Anderson is also the author of The Young Classical Singer’s Toolbox, available as an e-book on Amazon.
Dr. Anderson holds a DMA from New England Conservatory. Principal teachers include Margo Garrett, Irma Vallecillo, Kayo Iwama, Kenneth Griffiths, and Hartmut Höll.
