EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
Master Vocal Workshops
LIEDER ALIVE!’s inaugrual Master Vocal Workshops brought together outstanding master artists with highly accomplished emerging and established professional singers for intensive training and performance. Baritone Thomas Hampson inaugurated this unique program in October 2008 with an intensive three-day Master Workshop called Mostly Mahler. The initial season culminated in June 2009 with a three-day program led by mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne. Soprano June Anderson sang a Gala Benefit Concert and taught her workshop, The Art of Singing. Most recently, baritone Håkan Hagegård brought his innovative Singers’ Studio curriculum to the Master Vocal Workshop series for an intensive five-day program, concluding with a public master class.
Lieder Institute
This program was founded in 2012 with a coaching series led by master coach and pianist John Parr, a member of LIEDER ALIVE!’s Advisory Board and head of music staff at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany. The Institute continues to provide coaching sessions for myriad singers with Mr. Parr, Alison Pybus (LIEDER ALIVE!’s Advisory Board chair, and former vice president at IMG Artists), and LIEDER ALIVE!’s director, Maxine Bernstein. The Summer Lieder Institute also includes compositional workshops led by Composer-in-Residence Kurt Erickson.
Monthly Class
LIEDER ALIVE! expanded its training programming for singers well beyond the public and private master classes offered by the Vocal Master Workshop series. The Three Masters is a collaboration between LIEDER ALIVE!’s director, Maxine Bernstein, soprano, Esther Rayo, a major contributing artist to LIEDER ALIVE!, and collaborative pianist and tenor Benjamin Liupaogo, lecturer in voice at Stanford University. We will also welcome visiting guest teachers, including our renowned Artist-in-Residence, Peter Grünberg, most recently musical assistant to Michael Tilson Thomas.
Coaching and Consulting
LIEDER ALIVE! founder and director Maxine Bernstein and our Contributing Artists offer coaching and consulting services for singers and pianists on a year-round basis. Call Ms. Bernstein at LIEDER ALIVE!—415 561 0100—for details.