Performances + Events
Brett Hodgdon
Education and Training
BM, BA, and MM, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; DMA, New England Conservatory. Brett studied piano with Irma Vallecillo and Cameron Stowe, and opera and vocal repertoire with John Greer and John Moriarty. Additional studies at Kärntner Landeskonservatorium (Klagenfurt, Austria), Aspen Music Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Center.
Hodgdon serves on the opera coaching and song repertoire faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music. In November 2021, he conducted the NEC Graduate Opera in the Boston premiere of Ana Sokolović’s a cappella opera Svadba. Additionally, Hodgdon teaches courses in diction and vocal repertoire at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Previously, he served as music director of the University of Connecticut Opera Theater for eight seasons, conducting over a dozen operas during his time there.
Since 2014, he has spent his summers on the coaching faculty of Si Parla, Si Canta! in Arona, Italy, where he made his international conducting debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica Carlo Coccia di Novara in 2019. He joined the guest faculty of Canto Louisville in the summer of 2022.
Current faculty, New England Conservatory and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Former faculty, University of Connecticut.
Curriculum Vitae
BM, BA, and MM, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; DMA, New England Conservatory. Brett studied piano with Irma Vallecillo and Cameron Stowe, and opera and vocal repertoire with John Greer and John Moriarty. Additional studies at Kärntner Landeskonservatorium (Klagenfurt, Austria), Aspen Music Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Center.
Affiliated Departments and Programs
Voice
