Dr. Colin Levin serves as Associate Professor of Music at Long Island University: Brooklyn - Roc Nation School of Music as the Director of the Vocal Performance Program, and proudly served on the Voice and Music History Faculty with the Boston University Tanglewood Institute from 2013-2022. He previously has held faculty positions with Rowan University, the International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia in Mexico and Concord Academy, as well as a Lecturer in Voice position at the Mason Gross School of Music at Rutgers University. He has presented masterclasses at The Longy School of Music of Bard College, New York University Steinhardt's Department of Music and Performing Arts, The Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University, Concordia College (MN), The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, and in the spring of 2017 was a teaching artist-in-residence at the Landakotsskóli in Reykjavík, Iceland. Colin additionally maintains private voice studios in New York City and Provincetown, MA.

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Colin's voice students regularly appear as professional singers and actors in television and film, are touring in Broadway National Tours, and are performing in the US and Canada on major Musical Theater and Operatic stages including Lincoln Center Theatre on Tour, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, Virginia Opera, Opera Ithaca, Toledo Opera, Nashville Opera, Opera Birmingham, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Carolina, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Opera and Musical Theater at Quisisana, and the Springer Opera House; and participate in young artist programs with The Glimmerglass Festival, Music Academy of the West, Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Program, the Aspen Music Festival, Charlottesville Opera, Seagle Music Colony, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, the Miami Music Festival, Chautauqua Institute, Chicago Summer Opera, AIMS in Graz, and SongFest.

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They regularly place and win competitions, including Regional Finalists, District Winners and Encouragement Awards in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, national finalists and semi-finalists in the emerging professional, collegiate and high school divisions of the Classical Singer Competition, and finalists as well as top prizes at the National Level of the NATS Competition, Lotte Lenya Competition, Opera Birmingham Vocal Competition, Mary Jacobs Smith Singer of the Year Shreveport Opera Competition, New York Lyric Opera competition, Schmidt Vocal Competition, Edvard Grieg Society Voice Competition, New Orleans Opera Donald W. Wood Competition, and the Peter Elvins Competition.

 

His students regularly are accepted as undergraduate, graduate, and artist diploma students into top music conservatories in the US, London, and Canada as vocal performance majors, including students attending The Juilliard School, The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Eastman School of Music, Mannes School of Music, Boston University, The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, The Royal Academy of Music in London, New York University, The University of Toronto, SUNY Purchase, Northwestern Bien School of Music, and Rider University. 

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Colin's principle teachers include Marlene Rosen, Jerold Siena, Eduardo Chama, Robert Honeysucker, Arthur Levy, and Mark Schnaible, in addition to mentors Penelope Bitzas, and Julie and Nathan Gunn. Colin holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, a Master of Music Degree from University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign which he attended on full scholarship and fellowship, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Rutgers University which he attended on the Irene Messner Opera Laureyns full scholarship. For more information on his dissertation and research, please see Nordic Vocal Literature.