Susan Boddie

Dr. Susan Boddie, soprano has been instructing voice and performing internationally for over 20 years. Originally from St. John's, Newfoundland, she began voice, piano and cello studies at age 5. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, New York. Further, she received her Doctoral Degree in Education with a focus in Music from the Graduate Division of Education Research at the University of Calgary with research based in the comprehensive fields of vocal pedagogy, music education and educational philosophy. Dr. Boddie is also a specialist in CCM Vocal Pedagogy. She has studied and coached with artists such as Patricia Misslin, Dennis Helmrich, Margo Garrett, Cynthia Hoffmann, Edward Zambara, Andrea Gruber, Phyllis Curtin, Joan Dornemann, Thomas Muraco and Palma Toscani. She also studies with Jeanie LoVetri (Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method) and holds certification from the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah Conservatory.

Currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, she is a versatile vocal instructor who has held teaching appointments at the Music Faculties of Acadia University, Dalhousie University, and St. Francis Xavier University as well as the Education faculty at Mount Saint Vincent University and the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts. She is also the past President of the Maritime Association of the Teachers of Singing. Dr. Boddie has won several Excellence in Teaching awards from the Royal Conservatory of Music. She is a frequent performer in the genres of opera, oratorio, sacred, choral works, vocal chamber music, and musical theatre. Additionally she is a masterclass clinician, voice adjudicator, voice examiner, vocal and diction coach, and audition panelist. Dr. Boddie is an active member of NATS, PAVA, NAFME, NYSSMA and the College Music Society.

A singer-scholar, Dr. Boddie has a passionate interest in research. Her research interests encompass educational philosophy, effective instruction, teacher preparation, performance practice, and vocal pedagogy. She presents her research at international conferences and has been published in peer reviewed journals of music and education. As well, she is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Early Childhood Learning, the International Journal of Arts Theory and History and a book reviewer for the Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Philosophy of Education of Great Britain, and the College Music Society Symposium.

She is an accomplished international concert artist and with performances at Carnegie Hall, Boston's Symphony Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Riverside Church Manhattan, Sala Unicaja de Conciertos, Rebecca Cohn Theatre, McNally Hall, The Music Room, and Edward Pickman Concert Hall. Some performing highlights include, Susanna in Nozze di Figaro, Frasquita in Carmen, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, Mother Abbess in the Sound of Music, Lily in the Secret Garden. Soprano soloist for Mozart's Coronation Mass and Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, Fauré's Requiem, Bach's Christmas Oratorio and St. John Passion, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, and Handel's Messiah. Upcoming performances include Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore and Requiem.

Dr. Boddie's students have been accepted at the undergraduate and graduate levels as such schools as: University of Toronto, Sheridan College, The Randolph School, National Theatre School, Queens University, Ryerson University, Humber College, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Boston Conservatory, NYU Steinhardt, SUNY Stony Brook, Ithaca College and Florida State University. Her students have gone on to have careers in singer/songwriting, musical theatre, opera, choral conducting and music education.