Corey Gaudreau

Style: Opera; Classical; Musical Theatre

Title: Chair of Voice, New England Conservatory Expanded Education

Bio:

Baritone Corey Gaudreau is a singer and teacher who is frequently praised for his mastery of language and style, especially in French and German song. He is Chair of Voice of New England Conservatory Expanded Education where he also teaches courses in Language Diction. Gaudreau was recognized for his “vitality and precision,” offering “a fascinating study of shifting sonorities and sonic possibilities.” (Boston Music Intelligencer)

Gaudreau has worked with opera companies throughout the United States. He has sung and understudied a variety of leading and comprimario roles including Sid in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring (Stony Brook Opera), Fiorello and Figaro in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville (Opera on the James), Aeneas in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Central City Opera), Billy Bigelow in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel (Central City Opera), Yamadori in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (Shreveport Opera), Masetto and Don Giovanni in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Alvaro in Daniel Catàn’s Florencia en el Amazonas, and Hannah before in the Florida premiere of Laura Kaminsky and Mark Campbell’s As One (Pensacola Opera). Gaudreau was a Bonfils-Stanton Studio Artist and Apprentice Artist for two seasons with Central City Opera, and Artist-in-Residence with both Pensacola Opera and Opera on the James. A versatile singer with flexibility in various styles, he excels not only in opera, art song, and oratorio, but new music, jazz and musical theatre as well. He recently sang a program of the Great American Songbook at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. He performs prolifically as a song recitalist and continues to be invited as a guest artist for NEC engagements. He sang Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures, and Schumann’s Spanische Liebeslieder in two installments of the First Monday Concert Series at Jordan Hall and recorded Pavel Haas’ Four Songs on Chinese Poetry for an NEC Liederabend. Gaudreau was also heard in a repeat performance of Ligeti at Boston Symphony Hall.

Corey is a staff singer at Trinity Church in the City of Boston. Formerly, he sang at Calvary-St. George’s Parish in New York. Upcoming engagements include Massenet’s Le Portrait de Mignon, singing the role of Des Grieux, as a guest artist with Stony Brook Opera, and a concert tour of London with the Trinity Choirs in Summer 2025.

Corey Gaudreau graduated from New England Conservatory with a BM and returned for the MM program. He has studied with Michael Meraw, Jason Ferrante, Lorraine DiSimone, and Laura Mashburn. He has coached with Tanya Blaich, Cameron Stowe, Justin Williams, Cody Martin, Jerome Shannon, Michael Baitzer, Thomas Getty, and Warren Jones.

https://necmusic.edu/faculty/corey-gaudreau/

Voice Type: Baritone

Music Styles Taught: Opera; Classical; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am available as a performer; I am currently accepting private students; I am available as a clinician or presenter; I accept students through a college or university program

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