EDUCATOR

Committed to education of audiences and musicians alike, Nicholas Phan served on the voice faculty of the DePaul University School of Music from 2018-2020. In addition to his time at DePaul, he has guest taught (working as both a voice teacher and a coach) at the Eastman School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Merola Opera Program, University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance, and the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. He currently serves as a coach on the faculty of the San Francisco Opera Center, where he works with the Adler Fellows.

In demand as a master class clinician, he has taught master classes for Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio, Tanglewood Music Center, University of Michigan, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Emmanuel Music’s Bach Institute, Oberlin Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, DePaul University, University of Chicago, University of Houston, Longy School of Music, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, Oregon Bach Festival, Kansas City Symphony, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco State University, Portland State University, Emory & Henry College, Sun Valley Music Festival, San Francisco Girl’s Chorus, and the Bay Area Vocal Academy. He has curated recital projects for the Merola Opera program and San Francisco Opera Center, also working intensively with the singers and pianists as they prepared for the performances. He has also led professional development sessions for Tanglewood Music Center, Eastman School of Music, University of Michigan, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Oberlin Conservatory. In the 2023-24 season, he will be the Artist-In-Residence at New York’s Kaufman Music Center, and in the fall of 2020, he was Virtual Artist-in-Residence at University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music.

Devoted to promoting the art of song and the vocal recital, he has given numerous talks on the relationship between text and music for both student and adult audiences through his work as the vocal artist-in-residence with San Francisco Performances from 2014-2018, as well as with the Laguna Beach Music Festival and Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago.