Symphony by the Sea Presents: Broadway to Beethoven and Back

In 2013, Ana completed her DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree in Opera/Vocal Arts at USC’s Thornton School of Music. Ana is currently Associate Professor of Voice at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Ana has taught numerous years for the Berklee Five-Week summer program, commercial voice and jazz piano at Cal/Polytechnic University/Pomona and Musical Theater at the Lee Strasberg Institute in West Hollywood, California. She participated in the prestigious SongFest art song program hosted at the Colburn School in Los Angeles in the summer of 2012, working closely with Jake Heggie, Gran Gershon, Amy Burton and other reputable 21st century classical composers. She is co-founder of Opera On Tap L.A. with Damien Elwood and founder and artistic director of Opera On Tap Latino, whose mission is to perform classical vocal repertoire in alternative venues around the L.A. area. Expanding on her jazz voice minor, she is also currently part of Tierney Sutton’s jazz voice improvisation community outreach program at the Lobero Theater, based in Santa Barbara, California.