Faculty

Kayo Iwama

piano, Head of Program, Graduate Program in Vocal Arts

Kayo Iwama, Head of Program for the Graduate Program in Vocal Arts, earned a B.Music degree at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and an M.Music at SUNY Stony Brook, where she studied with Gilbert Kalish. She also attended the Salzburg Music Festival, the Banff Music Center, the Music Academy of the West, and Tanglewood Music Center, where she worked with such artists as Margo Garrett, Martin Isepp, Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Erik Werba. She has served previously on the music staffs of the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and has taught at the Hartt School of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Boston Conservatory. Iwama can be heard on CD on the Well-Tempered label, with baritone Christópheren Nomura in Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin, and on two ISMM discs devoted to French mélodies and the songs of Schumann with tenor Ingul Ivan Oak. She has performed extensively with singers throughout North America, Europe, and Japan, in some of the most prestigious venues, including the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall, the Gardner Museum, Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the Kennedy Center, Tokyo's Yamaha Hall, and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In addition to her work at Bard, she is coordinator of the opera and vocal studies programs at the Tanglewood Music Center. In Boston she was pianist and music director of the critically acclaimed Cantata Singers Chamber Series, programs devoted to rarely heard works of art song and vocal chamber music.
Phone: 845-752-2193
E-mail: iwama@bard.edu
Website: http://www.bard.edu/vap