Dawn Upshaw joins Bard College Conservatory

The Bard College Conservatory of Music has appointed soprano Dawn Upshaw as the Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Bard College Conservatory of Music.

In the initial phase, Upshaw's involvement will focus on designing a course of study for the conservatory's new vocal and vocal-dramatic program. Her role at Bard will further develop over time, consistent with her performing schedule. The new conservatory will open its doors in the fall of 2005; the vocal and vocal-dramatic program will begin in the fall of 2006.

Upshaw also will be involved with the development of Bard's Richard B. Fisher Center for Performing Arts as a performance laboratory for composers, performers and directors.

In addition to her opera and concert career, the three-time Grammy Award-winning Upshaw currently is on the faculty of the Tanglewood Music Institute, where she also is a frequent performer. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, where she currently is featured as a perspectives artist. She regularly presents master classes as part of her touring schedule and is a recital partner with Richard Goode.

Upshaw holds honorary doctorate degrees from Yale, the Manhattan School of Music and Illinois Wesleyan University.

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