Upcoming Voice Events

Teresa Winner Blume is an accomplished singer, actress, and teacher. As Head of Voice at Walnut Hill School for the Arts since 2015, she is passionate about helping young artists deepen their skill, artistry and joy in singing. She has designed a thoughtful and comprehensive curriculum to train budding young singers, while teaching private voice lessons in classical and musical theater styles, leading master classes, and directing the spring opera each year. Her students have placed nationally at YoungArts, NATS, Schmidt and CS Music and continue their training at institutions including Curtis, Juilliard, MSM, NEC, CCM, Eastman, UMich, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, Boston Conservatory, and more. She continues to perform professionally in classical, musical theater and concert works. She has been featured as a soloist with the Boston Pops, North Carolina Symphony, Opera Carolina, Lyric Stage of Boston, and others. Her artistry has been recognized in such competitions as the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Awards (National semi-finalist) and New York Oratorio Society Solo Competition (semi-finalist). B.M. University of Illinois, M.M./P.C. Eastman School of Music. Learn more at TeresaWinnerBlume.com

Known for her vivacious energy, Dr. Patricia Au is a versatile collaborative pianist, music director, and educator. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She has held positions at New England Conservatory, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Victoria Conservatory of Music, as well as conducted master classes at Bucknell University and New World School of the Arts. As music director, she has led productions at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, HeliosOpera, OperaHub, and Boston Opera Collaborative. A frequent interpreter of contemporary music, she has workshopped with living composers, including Sofia Gubaidulina and John Harbison.

As an educator, Au served as resident teaching artist and education pianist for Boston Lyric Opera, where she realized her passion for introducing young people to opera as a storytelling art. Many of her coaching students have gone on to majoring in voice and opera at some of the top music programs in the country and continue to have thriving careers in the performing arts. Along with performing, she is equally comfortable as an arts administrator, having held positions with Vancouver International Song Institute and SongFest.

Au is also an active collaborative pianist member of the National Association of Teachers of Singers (NATS). A native of West Coast Canada, Au has earned degrees at University of Victoria and University of British Columbia, and received her M.M. and D.M.A. in collaborative piano from New England Conservatory of Music. She has also studied at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Orford Arts Centre, Franz Schubert Institut, and Académie Francis Poulenc.

Vocal Coach and Collaborative Pianist Elaine Smith Purcell has been on staff at Walnut Hill since 2004. She teaches a wide range of vocal repertoire from Baroque improvisational airs to standard classical Art Songs and musical theater repertoire. Ms. Smith Purcell shares her lifelong passion for foreign languages through the study of poetry, diction, and translation. Elaine studied at The Manhattan School of Music, The Britten-Pears Institute, and the prestigious Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. She uses specific apps and websites to enhance her teaching curriculum. Her work with Walnut Hill students was recently featured in the Boston Globe.