Accompanist

David Collins

A native of the upper peninsula of Michigan, David Collins is a faculty member at Wellesley College, where he serves as coach and accompanist in the music department, theory instructor, as well as pianist for the College Chorale. He received an Undergraduate degree in composition from Western Michigan University, and a Masters degree in accompanying from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 2009, he earned his Doctorate in collaborative piano and vocal coaching from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Irma Vallecillo, Kayo Iwama and John Greer. David currently serves as the Assistant Artistic Director for the Young Opera Company of New England, and is on the faculty of Lesley University in Cambridge, where he teaches piano and World Music. He has also been a member of the NEC coaching staff and the collaborative piano faculty of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. David performs regularly in the New England area and maintains a private piano and vocal coaching studio in Lynn, Massachusetts.