Susan Boddie

Dr. Susan Boddie, soprano is Assistant Professor of Voice and Voice Area chair at VSU. She has been teaching and performing internationally for over 20 years. Originally from St. John's, Newfoundland, she holds the BM from the New England Conservatory of Music, MM in from the Manhattan School of Music and Ph.D. in Education from the University of Calgary. Classically, she has studied and coached under Patricia Misslin, Edward Zambara, Phyllis Curtin, Warren Jones, Renée Fleming, Samuel Ramey, Dawn Upshaw and others. Dr. Boddie is also a specialist in CCM Vocal Pedagogy. She has studied privately with Jeannette LoVetri in New York, (creator of Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method) and holds all levels of Somatic Voicework™ as well as certification from the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah Conservatory. Musical theatre voice, acting coaches and masterclass clinicians have included Susan Batson, Carlos Leon, Mary Setrakian, Matthew Edwards, and Marcelle Gauvin. Higher Education appointments included the College of Saint Rose, Acadia, Dalhousie, and St. Francis Xavier Universities, and the Education faculty of Mount Saint Vincent University. Dr. Boddie is an active member of MTEA, NATS, PAVA, NAfME, CMS, and the Somatic Voicework™ Teacher's Association. She is the Treasurer of Georgia NATS. Further, she has won excellence in teaching awards from the Royal Conservatory of Music. Dr. Boddie is published in peer reviewed journals and presents her research at interdisciplinary conferences.

 

As an actor, some of Boddie’s highlights include Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Emma in Jekyll and Hyde, Mother Abbess in the Sound of Music, Lily in the Secret Garden, Lady Larken in Once Upon a Mattress, Mrs. Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol. Other highlights include W;t by Margaret Edson, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Street Scene, and The Music Man. As a singer she has performed as soprano soloist for Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Coronation Mass, and Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Poulenc’s Gloria, and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Equally comfortable on stage and in recital, Boddie as performed roles in Le Nozze di Figaro, Falstaff, Candide, Così fan Tutte and others.