Carly Baron
Soprano, Artist/Teacher, Director
Dr. Carly Baron is a NYC-based vocalist, teacher, and director. A lyric soprano with coloratura flexibility, Carly earned her doctorate in voice performance from Shenandoah Conservatory, her M.M. in classical voice from Temple University, and her B.A. in music from Muhlenberg College. She has spent the last five years on the voice faculty at Shenandoah Conservatory and currently runs Carly Baron’s Music Studio, providing both online and in-person private lessons and coaching to students across the country.
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Performance
Carly started her performance journey at a young age, studying musical theater and taking part in Off-Broadway productions during her youth. Her rich theater and acting experience has seamlessly transitioned into the world of opera, where she is celebrated as a versatile and innovative singing actress. Beyond traditional operatic and concert repertoire, Carly is dedicated to new music, often collaborating with contemporary composers, debuting roles in new chamber operas, premiering concert works, and recording vocals for studio projects.
As a passionate advocate for youth involvement in opera, Carly focused her doctoral research on creating a practical guide for industry professionals seeking to more effectively perform opera for young audiences. In the realm of children's opera, Carly collaborated with English Touring Opera to produce and perform the U.S. premiere of Back into the World; debuted the role of Julie in the U.S. premiere of Pacamambo with Philadelphia's Live/Wire Opera Company; and performed the one-woman children’s opera, The Vagabond Queen, at Shenandoah Conservatory.
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Carly currently performs professionally at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan. She has experience cantoring, section leading, and singing in professional quartets for choirs and religious organizations across the country. Please reach out to Carly directly for her most current performance resume or complete artistic CV.
Carly Baron’s Music Studio
Carly takes immense pride in her voice students, many of whom can be seen performing in Broadway productions and national tours, winning international voice competitions, singing in invitation-only festivals and All-State choirs, and enrolling in the most prestigious musical theater and music conservatories in the country. Carly, a specialist in evidence-based functional voice training, bases her teaching approach on three fundamental pillars: specificity, transparency, and tangibility. She is trained in classical, musical theater, and contemporary commercial styles (including jazz, pop, blues, soul, country, folk, and rock) of vocal pedagogy and currently offers lessons and coachings in voice, piano, acting, and audition preparation.
Directing
Carly, as a director and musical director, regularly freelances with schools, regional companies, and private organizations on a range of music performances and musical theater productions. Within the past year alone, she music directed productions of Something Rotten, Once Upon A Mattress, and The Addams Family; served as principal vocal coach on the MD Theatre Collective's highly praised production of Ragtime; and directed Charm City Players' iMAGiNATiON 101 productions of The Little Mermaid, Lion King, and Finding Nemo. With a wealth of experience directing children's and teens choirs, songleading, and running secular and religious musical programs, Carly currently directs an adult choir in New York.