Katie Jillson

Katie is a seasoned voice and piano teacher, with experience in
multiple genres and with all age levels. She teaches singers to use the
most organic, tension free technique possible to discover their authentic
voice, musicality, and self-expression. Her students have excelled in
auditions, solo performances, intensive vocal study programs and
competitions. 

A versatile singer herself, she has been delighting audiences for over two
decades. She has performed as soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Bernstein’s
Chichester Psalms, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Poulenc’s Stabat Mater,
Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen and Mozart’s Requiem. She has sung
with Masterworks Chorale, the Paul Madore Chorale, Boston
Cecilia, Zensemble and The Down East Singers in Thomaston,
Maine. Katie is a frequent soloist at Saint Columbkille Parish in Brighton,
MA and at St. Ignatius of Loyola Church in Chestnut Hill, where she has
been a member of the music ministry since 1999. 
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Katie’s musical studies began with the piano at the age of 5, and she
discovered her passion for singing in her early adolescent years. Katie
holds a BM in vocal performance from the New England Conservatory of
Music, and will complete her MM in vocal performance at the Longy School
of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA in 2023. Always developing
professionally, she attended the Boston Conservatory Vocal Pedagogy
Professional Workshop in 2018, The Orff Schulwerk Level 1 training at
Bridgewater State University in 2019 and the OperaWorks Winter Intensive
Program in Los Angeles, CA in 2016.