Cheryl Lin Fielding
Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching

“Warm, grand, and rich”, Cheryl Lin Fielding’s pianism has been praised by the New York Sun, and throughout the world. Her performances have taken her to major venues including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Recital Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Juilliard Theater, the Mark Morris Dance Group, and the Getty Museum.

Fielding has been honored with the Grace B. Jackson Prize in Excellence by the Tanglewood Music Festival, recognized by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and three times received the distinguished Gwendolyn Koldofsky Award in Keyboard Collaborative Arts.

Her musical studies began at the age of three in Taiwan, first on the piano and later the violin. She continued through dual master’s degrees at the Juilliard School (Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano) and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the University of Southern California, with extended emphasis in Vocal performance.

Fielding has served as music director and vocal coach for Opera Chapman at the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, Operafestival di Roma, an adjunct professor at California State University at Northridge, Azusa Pacific University, and Chapman University. She was an adjudicator for NATS and Spotlight Awards, and served as a pianist for the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, the Juilliard School, Los Angeles Opera, Operalia, and OperaWorks. Dr. Fielding also served as vocal coach and pianist for USC Thornton Opera, Operafestival di Roma, Opera Pacific, and as the Principal Coach at Opera San Jose and Opera Santa Barbara. She is currently on the music staff as a coach and pianist for Dolora Zajick’s Institute of Young Dramatic Voices, and as a Lecturer and opera coach for UCLA Opera at the Herb Alpert School of Music.

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David Lefkowitz
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Che-Yen Chen
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Lucy Yates
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Noah Meites
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Ben Hong
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Hitomi Oba
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Nick DePinna
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Lily Chen-Hafteck
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Christoph Bull
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Victoria Kirsch
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Ryan Brown
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Joshua Ranz
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Aubrey Foard
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Lindsey Beardsley
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Dwayne Milburn
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Peter Kazaras
Distinguished Professor - Director of Opera UCLA
David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Chair in Piano Performance
Vladimir Chernov
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Alison Deane
Associate Adjunct Professor
Jonathan Davis
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William Kinderman
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Shahab Paranj
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Mildred Yi
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Andrew Ordonez
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Kay Rhie
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Ian Krouse
Distinguished Professor - Co-Area Head, Composition
Juliana Gondek
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Boris Allakhverdyan
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Melissa Bilal
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