Sumner Wallace ’24 awarded Teaching Assistant Program in France fellowship</h1> <article> <h1>Sumner Wallace ’24 awarded Teaching Assistant Program in France fellowship</h1> <p>dfrezza — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:37:42 +0000</p> <span>Sumner Wallace ’24 awarded Teaching Assistant Program in France fellowship</span> <span><span>dfrezza</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-09-19T15:37:42-04:00" title="Friday, September 19, 2025 - 15:37">Fri, 09/19/2025 - 15:37</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>How does pursuing the Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF) align with your post-college life and career goals? </strong><br>I had an incredible experience studying in France with Associate Professor of French <a href="/grace-an">Grace An</a>’s “Discovering Champagne” class a couple years back. The immersion boosted my speaking skills in a way that a class in the U.S. couldn’t. Since then, I’ve been eager to go back to France and develop my language skills further, while simultaneously helping French students develop theirs. </p><p>I believe being able to successfully communicate with others is one of the most fulfilling things we can do as humans. I’ve found this to be true in the writing and speaking centers while abroad and when working on creative projects. My <a href="/registrar/policies-procedures-forms/IM">individual major</a> (in Rhetoric and Media Studies) was all about how we make and share meaning, specifically in film and media, and I’m excited to continue my work in this area with TAPIF!</p><p> </p><p><strong>What specifically will you be doing in France and what are you looking forward to the most?</strong></p><p>Through TAPIF, I will be working with secondary students (ages 11-18) on their English speaking skills. I serve as a resource for students while they work on conversation, as well as an assistant in planning and delivering lessons for the head teacher. I’m most looking forward to integrating into my community and forming new relationships—and eating lots of cheese! </p><p> </p><p><strong>How did 91ֱ�� shape or influence you to pursue the TAPIF?</strong></p><p>When I was in Paris for Grace An’s class, I met a woman who had gone to Toulouse, France on Fulbright. She highly encouraged me to apply, and after learning so much in Grace’s class, I knew it was for me. I initially applied for a Fulbright to Switzerland last year, but I ended as a semi-finalist. This year, <a href="/danielle-abdon">Danielle Abdon</a> really encouraged me to go after Fulbright/TAPIF again, and it paid off!</p><p> </p><p><strong>What’s the best advice you’ve received from your 91ֱ�� faculty mentors?</strong></p><p>I’ve learned something from what they haven’t said to me. My most influential mentors— <a href="/cortney-smith">Cortney Smith</a>, Grace An, and <a href="/geoff-pingree">Geoff Pingree</a>—never said to me, “No, I don’t think you’ll be able to do that.” They’ve cautioned me that things I want to achieve will take work, or won’t be easy, but they’ve always believed in me and encouraged me… I have learned that determination means something, and good people will help you when they see you have it.</p><hr><p><a href="/fellowships">Connect with Fellowships & Awards</a> to learn more about the fellowships and awards opportunities available to students.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">The young alum heads to Europe to dive into a teaching assistantship.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2025-09-19T12:00:00Z">Fri, 09/19/2025 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>After graduating from 91ֱ��, Iowa City native Sumner Wallace ‘24 spent a year working for the college as the Writing Associates Program Coordinator. “I had a wonderful time expanding on my work as a student writing associate,” she says. “I’ve gained invaluable communication skills and pedagogical experience.” Now she heads to France to begin her teaching experience. </p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2360">After 91ֱ��</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25356">French</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25271">Individual Major</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-article-header field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">0</div> </article> <article> <h1>Taking a Shine to TIMARA</h1> <p>eburnett — Wed, 05 May 2021 19:01:17 +0000</p> <span>Taking a Shine to TIMARA</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-05-05T15:01:17-04:00" title="Wednesday, May 5, 2021 - 15:01">Wed, 05/05/2021 - 15:01</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Diana Gruber wears a lot of hats: philosophy major, conservatory innovator, and pop star.</p> <p>A double-degree student who splits her studies between philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences and a self-designed conservatory major in contemporary vocals and electronics, Gruber has taken an unconventional path to where she is today.</p> <p>Originally from Menlo Park, California, she arrived at 91ֱ�� as a jazz voice major under professor <a href="/node/6696">La Tanya Hall</a>, but she soon found herself gravitating toward <a href="/node/33031">TIMARA</a> classes. She ended up with an <a href="/node/50301">individual major</a> that allows her to incorporate her jazz vocal training with the experimental improvisation and extended technique elements of TIMARA. For Gruber, it’s the best of both worlds.</p> <figure class="captioned-image obj-right"> <figcaption>Diana Gruber (on screen) works with La Tanya Hall in a low-latency studio for voice instruction in fall 2020. (photo by Tanya Rosen-Jones)</figcaption> </figure> <p>Fittingly, the music she creates strikes a balance between worlds as well. Gruber's classical, jazz, and contemporary musical training helps her see music from a unique perspective: “Vocal training has influenced my singing style a lot, and I’m really grateful to La Tanya for helping me hone my craft,” she says. “I would say that you can kind of hear the jazz influence, but there’s also a lot of what I learned in classical theory. I mostly just apply it on the aural skills side, having these cadences and this classical chordal structure, combined with jazz and pop.”</p> <p>Gruber’s internet persona, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2i7HtVZgy9BmqgUqZ9NA3L">diana starshine</a>, combines vocal lines with synthesized and found sounds that are at times lush, at times high-energy. Gruber describes diana starshine as “a project with pop music taken to the extreme, with pretty experimental production. It’s very <em>online</em>. It exists sort of within a community.” And that community is growing: Her first single as diana starshine, “it’s love”—a collaboration with artists galen tipton and recovery girl—has been streamed more than 200,000 times on Spotify alone. </p> <p>Collaboration is another important part of Gruber’s musical practice, and 91ֱ�� is not short on options. She makes music with her housemates, as well as students in TIMARA and jazz. “It’s nice to have people around to collaborate with, but also to bounce ideas off of,” she says. “I do trust my vision, but I want to know what people think. It’s really nice having a community of artists.”</p> <p>We caught up with Gruber, as she completes her fourth of five years at 91ֱ��, to talk about her musical lives on and off campus.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What is the origin of diana starshine?</strong></p> <p>I have a project that is pop-oriented that errs on the side of almost—not quite—satire. I think people can take it however they want. I’ve never said anything that I haven’t actually done. You could say it’s abrasive, I suppose...But I would say it extends more into “tasteful music” too.</p> <p>At the same time, I am making music under my normal name, which leans more toward the electroacoustic side, where I’ve done collaborations with more “serious” people like Giant Claw (Keith Rankin). I am sort of bridging the gap between serious and not serious. A lot of the music I make takes inspiration directly from theory and aural skills from both jazz and classical. It’s really cool to have that approach to doing both popular and obscure/artsy music. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Aside from your vocal studies with La Tanya Hall, how has your conservatory training informed the music you’re making?</strong></p> <p>The [music theory and aural skills] classes I’ve taken with <a href="/node/6841">Arnie Cox</a> have influenced my music so much, because it’s made me think a lot about theory as concepts and more from a liberal arts academic perspective, which is less based on just learning notes, but rather thinking more of overarching theory. That’s really useful for making pop music too because there’s a lot of thinking of memetic participation and expectation, how something will make somebody feel, particularly based on timbre, rhythm—all that stuff.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>In what ways do you collaborate at 91ֱ��?</strong></p> <p>It’s really nice within the TIMARA and jazz departments to have people to work with, learn from, and play with. You can’t really go here without absorbing some of the aesthetics and attitudes. A lot of the stuff I’ve learned here is really useful. My housemates and I all do stuff together, and that’s really fun.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What’s next for you? </strong></p> <p>I have a whole other year here, which I am really excited about, because I feel like my practice has been developing so much. Up until now, I really didn’t have a lot of free time because I was trying to balance jazz, classical, and TIMARA. Next year I am only finishing up my college degree. I am really excited for my recital next year because I don’t know where I am going to go with it.</p> <p><em>Oli Bentley is a fourth-year TIMARA major from Cincinnati, Ohio. She currently resides in Los Angeles.</em></p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Vocalist and philosophy major Diana Gruber ’22 crafted an innovative conservatory major—and an alter ego to match.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2021-05-05T12:00:00Z">Wed, 05/05/2021 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Oli Bentley '21</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2357">Double Degree Program</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=34691">Jazz Performance</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=33031">TIMARA</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25406">Philosophy</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25271">Individual Major</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/la-tanya-hall" hreflang="und">La Tanya Hall</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/jazz-studies" hreflang="und">Jazz Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/contemporary-music" hreflang="und">Contemporary Music</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/philosophy" hreflang="und">Philosophy</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">courtesy Diana Gruber</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Ace of Clubs</h1> <p>eburnett — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:11:07 +0000</p> <span>Ace of Clubs</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2017-07-27T11:11:07-04:00" title="Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 11:11">Thu, 07/27/2017 - 11:11</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A circuitous route through 91ֱ�� led directly to a dream job for Gabe Pollack ’11. After initially majoring in <a href="/environmental-studies">environmental studies</a> in the College of Arts and Sciences, he added a conservatory major in <a href="/jazz-performance">jazz trumpet</a> during his sophomore year. By his fifth year, the <a href="/admissions-and-aid/double-degree-program">double-degree student</a> changed course in the conservatory, designing an <a href="/registrar/policies-procedures-forms/IM">individual major</a> in jazz entrepreneurship that was geared toward the music business and venue management.</p> <p>“For my final project, I wrote a business plan for a jazz club and applied for some grants,” he says. He earned funding through 91ֱ��’s Creativity & Leadership program, which supports innovative entrepreneurial efforts by 91ֱ�� students. He spun that into a summer internship at the Cleveland jazz club Nighttown, whose marketing coordinator, Jim Wadsworth, he had met through a class at 91ֱ��.</p> <p>“Jim was a guest lecturer,” Pollack recalls. “When I received the grant, I asked him if I could intern at Nighttown to get more experience. I moved to Cleveland and worked for him for a summer. When the grant ran out, he hired me. I worked there for three years as a booking agent during the day and doing sound production at night.”</p> <p>As Pollack was learning the industry on Cleveland’s East Side, another jazz club across town found itself at a crossroads. Built in 2002, the sleek and intimate <a href="http://www.themusicsettlement.org/event-rentals/">Bop Stop</a> had enjoyed a run of several years at its home overlooking Lake Erie, but was situated in a West Side neighborhood that had yet to catch up to the venue's cool vibe. When the Bop Stop went on the market, one of its suitors envisioned the place as a burger joint, Pollack recalls hearing.</p><p></p> <p>“The potential buyer said, ‘This is a great space, but what am I going to do with <em>that?’ </em>and pointed to the stage. After that, the owner kicked him out.”</p><p></p> <p>Instead, the building was donated to the Music Settlement, a community music school in Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood that had developed a vision for the club's revival. When the Music Settlement began looking for Bop Stop leadership, Pollack updated his résumé—and dusted off his old business-plan project from 91ֱ��.</p><p></p> <p>“I interviewed for the management job and submitted my final paper with my application,” he says. “And they hired me.”</p> <p>Under Pollack’s direction, the Bop Stop has thrived, with a steady schedule of local and touring jazz acts, including some 30 Grammy Award winners and counting. It was voted Best Jazz Club by <em>Cleveland Scene </em>in 2015 and 2016—and was even named Cleveland’s best date spot by the online matchmaker eHarmony, an honor Pollack calls “hilarious.”</p> <p>Not coincidentally, the Bop Stop's Hingetown neighborhood has witnessed a rebirth along with it, with the addition of an art gallery, shops, restaurants, and other businesses that have made it a lively and eclectic hub on the outskirts of downtown.</p> <p>The club also boasts a new recording studio donated by Cleveland radio personality Robert Conrad. “We can do high-end recordings here,” says Pollack, noting that the studio recently hosted a Blue Note session for Terence Blanchard. “It’s pretty cool to have Blue Note call you up and ask if one of their artists can record in your studio!”</p> <p>The Bop Stop also maintains close ties to 91ֱ��, with student groups and faculty members regularly making the rounds onstage. “The space gives student musicians an opportunity to play in Cleveland,” says Pollack. “It can be hard when you’re relatively far from a major city like New York.”</p> <p>Pollack’s own 91ֱ�� years included several crucial steps toward where he is today. “Being part of the conservatory was challenging but worthwhile,” he says, recounting his own experiences making music. “It seemed like a lot of doors were closing, but when one door closes, another one opens. My experiences in the conservatory helped me figure out what I wanted to do after graduating.</p> <p>“You learn a lot from your courses, but the connections I made with people as a student were important too,” he says. “There are lots of 91ֱ�� graduates that are touring musicians, and it’s fun to book them at the Bop Stop. It’s important to take advantage of opportunities outside the classroom, too.”</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2017-07-27T12:00:00Z">Thu, 07/27/2017 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Samantha Spaccasi ’17</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>How Gabe Pollack ’11 turned an individual major into a career in jazz management.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2357">Double Degree Program</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2406">Innovation and Impact</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2395">Entrepreneurship</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2974">Conservatory Alumni</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25271">Individual Major</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/jazz-studies" hreflang="und">Jazz Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">A former double-degree student at 91ֱ��, Gabe Pollack ’11 completed a final project that foreshadowed his career in jazz club management.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Julie Gulenko</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Takes Well to Direction</h1> <p>eburnett — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:30:34 +0000</p> <span>Takes Well to Direction</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-10-06T09:30:34-04:00" title="Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 09:30">Tue, 10/06/2020 - 09:30</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Upon his graduation from 91ֱ�� in 2016, baritone Jason Goldberg will have completed two majors: one in vocal performance as well as an individual major in opera directing. To learn more about the process of developing and pursuing an independent major in the conservatory, we asked Jason some questions about singing and directing at 91ֱ��.</p> <p><strong>What brought you to 91ֱ��?</strong></p> <p></p> <p>I first heard about the conservatory from <a href="/node/7031">Salvatore Champagne</a> at the Classical Singer High School Competition and chose to go to 91ֱ�� because it has an amazing voice program that promotes undergraduate singers performing in operas. I then found a teacher that I loved to work with, <a href="/node/7056">Lorraine Manz</a>. During my very first lesson with her, I knew she could help me become the performer I wanted to be. I also chose 91ֱ�� because it is one of the few places where a conservatory and a liberal arts college coexist on the same campus, which meant I would have the flexibility and choice to take whichever classes suited me. It was also clear that as I grew as a person, 91ֱ�� would be able to accommodate that growth; 91ֱ�� wouldn’t constrain me.</p> <p><strong>How did you get interested in directing?</strong></p> <p>I have always loved all aspects of theater. When I was a kid, I would go and see operas and Broadway shows and would be fascinated by lighting effects, how shows were staged, and many other technical things. I also performed individual roles at the Metropolitan Opera as a boy soprano, working with Julie Taymor and James Levine, among others, and discovered that there was so much more to opera and theater than just performing. I knew I loved to sing, but I also loved and was intrigued by how everything worked in a production. When I was offered the directing major, it was a chance to explore all the aspects of theater that I had not had an opportunity to work with before.</p> <p><strong>Tell us about how the idea of an independent major came about? What does the process of declaring an independent major entail?</strong></p> <p>Sure. I went to meet Jonathon Field [director of 91ֱ�� Opera Theater] with the desire to take his directing class and direct some scenes. After we spoke for a while, he suggested that I might be interested in pursuing an independent major to learn what it really means to be an opera director. I jumped at the chance. We then came up with a proposed curriculum for the major, which I wrote up. This proposal, along with my CV, was submitted to Dean Mary Gray [assistant dean for Student Academic Affairs] and afterwards was sent to the Individual Major Committee and was subsequently approved.</p> <p><strong>Have you found a lot of support from your instructors within the voice program? Your teacher? Directors? Etc.?</strong></p> <p>Yes, yes, and yes. I have received incredible support from the voice faculty, 91ֱ�� administration, the Opera Theater department, and the rest of the conservatory. This major would not have been possible without their support, and they have guided me every step of the way.</p> <p><strong>Would you describe the ways in which your studies of and experience directing have informed your own performing? Conversely, how does being a singer inform the way you direct?</strong></p> <p>Well, they are both related to each other. By studying directing, you learn a great deal about all of the individual elements that make up a production. This knowledge and increased awareness of how a show is put together has enhanced my natural instincts of what to do and how to act while onstage. As a performer, knowing how to self-direct is essential. For example, sometimes there won’t be time to stage an aria and you’ll have to make it up yourself.</p> <p>In addition, being a singer gives me some insight and vocabulary, which is very useful in directing operas. When issues arise, I am more likely to not only see them from a big-picture point of view as the director, but I also have a performer’s detailed perspective, which helps in figuring out what potential solutions might work.</p> <p><strong>Tell us about some of the projects you’ve been involved with related to your double major? Anything special planned for next year?</strong></p> <p>For my first project, I directed <em>The Telephone</em> by Menotti for the Winter Term opera in January 2015. Sally Stunkel [clinical associate professor of opera] directed the other half of the program, <em>Strawberry Fields</em>. Currently, I am directing a staged song cycle by Jake Heggie called <em>Facing Forward/Looking Back</em>. Margaret Langhorne is directing the other half of the program, which is a one-act opera by Stephen Oliver called <em>A Man of Feeling</em>. That show goes up in the Cat in the Cream theater on May 5 at 8 p.m.</p> <p>Next year, I am planning to direct Purcell’s<em> Dido and Aeneas</em> in conjunction with the Opera Theater and Historical Performance departments of the conservatory. It has been wonderful collaborating with Webb Wiggins [associate professor of harpsichord] and figuring out how all aspects of this process work: casting, costuming, venue selection, and budgeting, among other things. I am still putting together the details, so fingers crossed!<br> <br> <strong>What is your vision for the future? Do you want to perform and direct? What’s 10 years down the road for you?</strong></p> <p>That is a difficult question. I absolutely want to be a professional opera singer, but I also love to direct. They fit together so nicely and satisfy me as a person. Ideally, 10 years down the line, I would love to be doing both! But before then, I plan on going to graduate school for vocal performance. Also, I am sure I would enjoy working overseas, having studied Italian in the 91ֱ�� in Italy program and German in Middlebury College’s German for Singers language immersion program. In all honesty, though, I don’t know what’s going to happen after 91ֱ��. It’s all exciting and terrifying at the same time, and I wouldn’t have it any other way!</p> <p><em>Daniel McGrew is a tenor in the studio of Salvatore Champagne.</em></p> <p><strong>UPDATE (December 4, 2019): </strong>Jason Goldberg was successful in producing and directing Purcell’s <em>Dido and Aeneas</em> in 2016. Read more about that production in the ClevelandClassical.com <a href="https://clevelandclassical.com/purcells-dido-and-aeneas-directed-by-jason-goldberg-to-be-performed-at-oberlin-and-cwru/">preview</a>. Since graduating from 91ֱ��, Goldberg has served as a member of the Chautauqua Opera’s production team and directed the Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble summer festival production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s <em>Mozart and Salieri</em>, for which he earned praise—"Jason Goldberg directed the action with sensitivity and close attention to the emotional arc” (berkshirefinearts.com).</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2015-05-01T12:00:00Z">Fri, 05/01/2015 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Daniel McGrew '15</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Baritone Jason Goldberg '16 turned his love of opera into an individual major in directing.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=35596">Voice</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=32971">Opera Theater</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25271">Individual Major</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/salvatore-champagne" hreflang="und">Salvatore Champagne ’85</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/vocal-studies" hreflang="und">Vocal Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Tanya Rosen-Jones '97</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> </main></body></html>