Teacher

Susan McBerry

Periwinkle Song Studio and Lewis and Clark College

Portland , OR, USA

Contact

Teacher Type

TEACHES ONLINE

Teaching Styles

Classical/Opera
Musical Theatre

Levels Taught

Professional
Young Artist/Emerging Pro
University

Bio

Soprano Susan McBerry, lyric soprano and singing voice specialist, has been the Coordinator of Vocal Studies at Lewis and Clark College since 1987. She teaches Opera and Musical Theater Workshops, Vocal Literature, Art and Science of the Voice, Vocal Diction and the Broadway Musical in addition to training singers at all levels.

Ms. McBerry is an experienced recitalist whose specialty is French art song of the 19th and 20th Centuries which she studied extensively with Pierre Bernac, the famous French baritone. She has performed recitals, lecture-recitals, and sacred concerts throughout the United States and Canada and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator for music conferences and contests sponsored by Music Educators National Conference, American Choral Directors Association and National Association of Teachers of Singing, of which she is former Northwest Regional Governor. She is also a member of the National Opera Association.

In addition to her college teaching, Ms. McBerry maintains a private studio where her students include many award-winning professionals from classical singers to jazz and musical theater performers.