IDEAS Guest Artists
BWVP Guest Artists enrich student educational, developmental, and network-building experiences through connections with world-class guest artists and industry professionals.
IDEAS Guest Artists include internationally acclaimed Performers, Stage Directors, Conductors, Agents, and Administrators.
IDEAS Guests bring a diverse perspective from many facets of the industry ranging from on-stage performance, to audition technique, interpretation, entrepreneurship, marketing, social media, young artist and resident artist program expectations, the business of opera, and more.
The IDEAS Guest Artists are underwritten in part by Bella Voce, the BWVP student organization and advocacy group.
IDEAS Guest Artists
BWVP Guest Artists enrich student educational, developmental, and network-building experiences through connections with world-class guest artists and industry professionals.
IDEAS Guest Artists include internationally acclaimed Performers, Stage Directors, Conductors, Agents, and Administrators.
IDEAS Guests bring a diverse perspective from many facets of the industry ranging from on-stage performance, to audition technique, interpretation, entrepreneurship, marketing, social media, young artist and resident artist program expectations, the business of opera, and more.
The IDEAS Guest Artists are underwritten in part by Bella Voce, the BWVP student organization and advocacy group.
IDEAS Guest Artists
BWVP Guest Artists enrich student educational, developmental, and network-building experiences through connections with world-class guest artists and industry professionals.
IDEAS Guest Artists include internationally acclaimed Performers, Stage Directors, Conductors, Agents, and Administrators.
IDEAS Guests bring a diverse perspective from many facets of the industry ranging from on-stage performance, to audition technique, interpretation, entrepreneurship, marketing, social media, young artist and resident artist program expectations, the business of opera, and more.
The IDEAS Guest Artists are underwritten in part by Bella Voce, the BWVP student organization and advocacy group.
Innovation
Cutting-Edge Real-World Focused Curriculum
Wholistic Total-Body Instrument Training to Develop Complete Artistry
Voice Lessons, Coaching, Diction & Literature, and Conservatory Core
8-Semester Performance Workshop Sequence
Comprehensive Preparation to win Top Graduate School Placement
Build and Develop Your Foundation for life-long success
Unique Partnerships with Professional Companies and Organizations
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Opportunity
for ALL BWVP Majors:
Cast in at least one Main Stage Opera production each year
Perform in two Workshop productions every semester
Participate in at least one master class each year
Work with Guest artists in professional residencies
Connect with top Grad Programs through Grad School EXPOs
Develop Professional Network through collaborations
Shatterproof
Support our mission to increase access to recovery, prevention, and mental health resources for everyone who needs them.
My son, Brian, was a loving child, full of smiles and light. Like so many children, as he entered his teenage years, Brian tried drugs and alcohol. And like far too many, this led to addiction. For almost 10 years, Brian battled this disease and its cycle of shame, isolation, and failure. During that same time, my family and I fought to navigate the complex and confusing web of treatment programs and therapies. If you know someone who has struggled with addiction, you know all too well the pain and anguish of watching a loved one in the clutches of this disease.
Loving and compassionate, through it all Brian wished others did not have to suffer from this devastating disease. During a visit home in the summer of 2011, as we sat on our back porch one evening, Brian spoke about the stigma and shame he felt.
This turned out to be my son’s last visit home. Four months later, in the middle of the night on October 20, 2011, I received the phone call that is every parent’s worst nightmare. Brian was dead.
Brian's passing was and continues to be excruciatingly painful. Perhaps just as tragic, is the undeniable reality that it was not just addiction that claimed my son’s life. It was the shame he felt every morning when he opened his eyes that led him to wake up that morning, research suicide notes, light a candle and take his own life, alone.
In the aftermath of Brian’s death, I struggled to make sense of what had happened. After months of research and reflection, four facts haunted me:
Brian died of a disease that afflicts nearly 49 million Americans every day plus the tens of millions of family members that love them so dearly. That’s one quarter of American families.
Like Brian, the majority of those addicted—nearly 9 out of 10—begin experimenting with substances before their 18th birthdays, while their brains were still developing. We as a society are not protecting our children when they are most vulnerable to becoming addicted and unable to protect themselves.
Research exists that could have saved Brian and countless others like him but it has not been implemented throughout communities and healthcare systems.
For every major disease in this country, there is one well-funded national organization—but not for addiction. Organizations like these are devoted to funding discovery and implementing protocols and programs related to prevention, treatment and recovery, and changing public policies and supporting families as they navigate some of the most trying times that they will ever face. For every major disease, but not for addiction.
Disquieted by this information, and inspired by Brian’s compassion, I made a promise to my son, to spare others this tragedy. From this promise emerged a vision to unite millions of Americans and empower them to create change.
Changing the country’s consciousness will not be easy. However, with your help, we’re building a national movement to treat addiction like the chronic disease it is and offering evidence-based resources for prevention, treatment and recovery. This movement will foster tolerance and compassion, and dismantle the discrimination and judgment associated with this devastating disease.
Welcome to Shatterproof. I’m so grateful you’ve found us.
- Gary Mendell
LEARN MORE: https://www.shatterproof.org
ADAM ZEIDLER
Adam Zeidler is from Bay Village, Ohio and is currently studying at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory with a major in Vocal Performance and he is also part of the Baldwin Wallace Men’s Varsity Tennis team. Adam has played roles like Bartolo from Mozart’s “le nozze di Figaro,” Pirate King from Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance,” Cesare in Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” which was performed at the Helen Theater in Playhouse Square, Daddy in Kamala Sankaram’s “Taking up Serpents,” and is looking forward to play Jupiter in Jacques Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld” in March. All of these roles were performed through Baldwin Wallace. Adam also performed in Verona, Italy in the summer program “Opera Viva!” this past summer. Adam has also been part of many choral pieces. He has performed at multiple Baldwin Wallace Bach Festivals with the Motet Choir. He has performed Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio,” “Mass in B minor,” and his “St. John’s Passion” at Gamble Auditorium at Baldwin Wallace. With Motet Choir he also sang David lang’s “Little Match Girl Passion” this past November. He is very excited to perform once again with Motet Choir in this years performance of “Messiah” by Handel.
