Susan McBerry

Adjunct Faculty of Music

department: Music
office: 11 Evans Center
phone: 503-768-7473
e-mail: mcberry@lclark.edu

Soprano Susan McBerry, lyric soprano and teacher of voice, has been the coordinator of vocal studies at Lewis and Clark College since 1987. She teaches Vocal Pedagogy, Diction for Singers and Vocal Literature in addition to private voice lessons. She also has taught Opera Workshop and Musical Theater Workshops. Since 2002 McBerry has been the conductor of the college choir, Cappella Nova and the women’s ensemble, Vox Angelis.

Ms. McBerry is an experienced and popular 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 performs 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. (Some of you may also have seen her perform as the infamous diva in the comic vocal recital, The BoZoArtZ Duo.)

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. She is also the Director of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Portland.