{"id":2130,"date":"2018-07-25T10:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2018-07-25T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:59:38","slug":"dawn-upshaw-82-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2018\/07\/25\/dawn-upshaw-82-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Upshaw ’82"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dawn Upshaw ’82 was recently featured in an Opera News article entitled “The Teaching Artist” in which she spoke about her work as a teacher at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she is head of the vocal arts program, and at Bard College Conservatory of Music, where she is artistic director of the graduate vocal arts program. In the article, she reflected on her career after her time at Illinois Wesleyan as well as her hopes for the future.<\/div>\n
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On what kind of singer she wants for the Tanglewood Program:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cWe look at the voice, and the quality, the talent in communication. We are also looking for students we think we can help guide\u2014someone who\u2019s open to working collaboratively. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. The singers in the program tend to be people who have just finished grad school. It\u2019s a small enough group, and we get enough applicants, that we really are able to stick to a certain level of artist. That\u2019s the level I was most interested in at Bard, too. I actually began at Bard in 2004, before I took the position at Tanglewood. When Bard first approached me, they were creating an undergraduate conservatory, and I said I didn\u2019t want to create an undergraduate vocal program. I was more interested in the openness and the skill level of graduate-level students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur program at Bard is centered on the core seminar classes. There are four semesters in a two-year program, so there are four core seminars. The course I love the most is called \u2018Creating Unique Performance Opportunities.\u2019 The students are put into two groups of three or four, and they do everything\u2014they choose their program, they rehearse, they do the research, they do their program notes, they find the venue, they book the concert and do all the publicity. It has to be off-campus, and in the community around Bard. All of this is done by Thanksgiving. So it\u2019s a very quick turnaround, very intense class, but it shows them that they can create their own performance opportunities. The impetus for that class comes from me believing things are constantly evolving in the business, and in the work. I truly believe that the most exciting thing about the future in music is the new young musicians that are coming along and saying they want to do this. They find a way to say what they want to say with their music. And so they need a place they can create for themselves in which to say what they want to say with their work.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal at Bard is to instill in the students excitement for collaboration and connecting with other people through the art form. It can be a lonely road, sometimes, being a singing artist. But I have found in my own experience that the greatest work that I can do has always been in collaboration with someone else”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dawn brings a unique perspective on performing and a passion for sharing her experiences to her mission of shaping aspiring singers.<\/div>\n
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