Announcing the 2022–2023 Issue of STAGES Magazine: Teaching Excellence
The bedrock of Boston Conservatory’s long legacy of innovation is teaching excellence. Here, faculty and administrative leaders are not only educators—they are also the artists, performers, scholars, and culture makers who are shaping today’s performing arts landscape.
The 2022–2023 issue of STAGES examines teaching excellence at Boston Conservatory as the dynamic interplay of key areas: pedagogy and curriculum, research and thought, and performance and professional practice. In four thematic sections—Coursework(Opens in a new window), Ideas(Opens in a new window), Practice(Opens in a new window), and Outcomes(Opens in a new window)—we consider how, as artist-practitioners working across these intersecting areas, our faculty connect students to all that is current in the performing arts, helping them to imagine and define their own pathways for professional success.
Issue highlights:
- Breaking Ground through Movement(Opens in a new window): A look at the new commercial dance program in photos.
- A Culture Bearer in the Classroom(Opens in a new window): Faculty member Maya Cunningham draws on her ethnomusicology scholarship in the new Music in Context course.
- Theater as a Mirror (and Driver) of Social Change(Opens in a new window): How Boston Conservatory’s theater curriculum is evolving with a changing society and industry.
- Expanding the Historical Record(Opens in a new window): Faculty member Stephen Spinelli reflects on the role of research in elevating historically erased musical legacies.
- Signaling Change at the Podium(Opens in a new window): Alum Jonathon Heyward makes history as Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s first music director of color.
Also in this issue: New Chair of Voice Isaí Jess Muñoz(Opens in a new window) looks back and ahead, alum Shanelle Chloe Villegas(Opens in a new window) reflects on her career and the contemporary theater program, opera alum Eric Ferring(Opens in a new window) discusses his debut solo album, and Associate Professor of Dance Joy Davis(Opens in a new window) takes on student career development in a new role.
STAGES Magazine is a publication of Boston Conservatory at Berklee, distributed digitally as part of the institution's green initiative. View past issues(Opens in a new window) and sign up to join the STAGES newsletter email list.
