Brooke Lieberman Collins

Brooke is delighted to be joining C4 for her first cycle.  She is on the voice faculty at Concordia Conservatory in Bronxville, NY, and maintains an active performing career, including recent appearances with the New York City Ballet, the New York and Boston Pops, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the American Symphony Orchestra, and Liederkranz Opera Theater.  A member of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players for the last five years, Brooke regularly takes part in off-Broadway and touring productions, as well as in outreach residencies in local schools; this spring, she played Fiametta in The Gondoliers at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.  Brooke has received awards from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts (National Vocal Competition Winner), and the Harvard Musical Association.  In 2009, she won 1st Place in the 5 Towns Music and Art Foundation’s Young Musician Competition, 2nd Place in the Philharmonic Society of Arlington’s Young Artist Competition and was named a finalist in the Peter Elvins Vocal Competition; 2006 brought a 2nd-Place win in the Leopoldskron Vocal Competition in Salzburg, Austria.  At the age of 18, she appeared on NPR’s “From the Top,” and became a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, receiving honors from President Bush and performing songs and arias at the Kennedy Center. Brooke attended the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA, before graduating from Harvard University, where she earned an AB cum laude in Music with a Language Citation in Italian, having studied music abroad on a Radcliffe Fellowship.  Brooke earned Masters degrees in Voice and Music Theory Pedagogy from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.  Much of her singing time these days is devoted to such classics as “The Wheels on the Bus” with her bandmates Isadora June (3 years), Asher Gabriel (1 year), and husband Reed.