- March 7-8, 2026
- 10 AM - 4 PM
- First Parish Brookline
- Grades 5-8
Offered in partnership with Boston Lyric Opera, this audition workshop is designed for middle school singers to build technique, theatrical movement, and character—equipping young performers with the confidence and tools to succeed in musical theatre and choral auditions.
Learn more about the workshop faculty below!
Lydia Jane Graeff is a Resident Teaching Artist for Boston Lyric Opera. Her main duties include teaching opera creation and performance in classrooms, providing professional development for BPS teachers, and directing and performing in BLO’s annual Artist Classroom Visit production. Lydia collaborated with Joel Esher on developing and co-hosting BLO’s opera creation happy hour program, The Tonic Hour on zoom during 2021. Lydia’s full-time job is as the theatre teacher for BPS at Boston Adult Technical Academy, and she also serves as a year-round Teaching Artist and Director for Wellesley Theatre Project. In Boston, Lydia has worked as a Teaching Artist with Company One Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Lyric Stage Company, The Boch Center, Watertown Children’s Theatre, Somerville Arts for Youth, and Artbarn Community Theatre. Lydia holds an M.A. in Theatre Education from Emerson College.
Known for her vivacious energy, Dr. Patricia Au is versatile as a collaborative pianist, educator, and music director. She has held positions at New England Conservatory, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute, as well as conducted masterclasses at Bucknell University and New World School of the Arts. As music director, she has led productions at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, OperaHub, and Boston Opera Collaborative. A frequent interpreter of contemporary music, she has workshopped with living composers, including Sofia Gubaidulina and John Harbison. For the last six seasons, Dr. Au served as Resident Teaching Artist and Education Pianist with Boston Lyric Opera where she has a passion for introducing young people to opera as a storytelling art. She received her DMA in Collaborative Piano from New England Conservatory of Music and in January 2023, she was appointed Assistant Professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.