# List of Boston Conservatory people

This is a partial listing of notable Boston Conservatory at Berklee alumni and faculty.

## Notable alumni
### Music Division

* Gustavo Assis-Brasil, guitarist and composer
* George Bassman, Broadway orchestrator and songwriter
* Edward Boatner, composer and arranger
* Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, Newbery Award-winning author
* Patrick Greene, composer and classical musician
* Marva Griffin Carter, musicologist, author, and professor of music at Georgia State University
* Gigi Gryce, jazz musician and composer
* Jonathon Heyward, conductor
* Louise Le Baron, opera and musical theatre singer
* Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, opera singer
* Victoria Livengood, opera singer
* Perry George "P.G." Lowery, cornetist and famed leader of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus Sideshow band
* Alejandro L. Madrid, musicologist, author, and professor of music at Harvard University
* Makanda Ken McIntyre, jazz musician
* Margaret French McLean, musician and First Lady of North Carolina
* Andreas Poulimenos, professor of music at the Jacobs School of Music
* Don Redman, jazz musician, arranger, and composer
* Sam Rivers, jazz musician and composer
* Geoff Sewell, singer
* Slam Stewart, jazz musician

### Theater Division

* Gerard Alessandrini, creator and lyricist, Forbidden Broadway
* Marlen Angelidou, Greek pop singer, competed for Cyprus in Eurovision Song Contest 1999
* David Benoit, Broadway: Les Misérables, Avenue Q, Jekyll and Hyde, and touring productions of Phantom of the Opera, All Shook Up, Young Frankenstein, Forbidden Broadway alum
* Jennifer R. Blake, Off-Broadway: The Donkey Show, original cast
* Measha Brueggergosman, Canadian opera singer
* Angela Christian, Broadway: Anne Catherick in The Woman in White, Dorothy Brown in Thoroughly Modern Millie
* Erin Davie, on Broadway as Charlotte in A Little Night Music, Niki Harris in Curtains, and Little Edie in Grey Gardens
* Laura Dreyfuss, Broadway Actress Dear Evan Hansen
* Kimiko Glenn, actress, singer, and Broadway performer who portrayed Brook Soso in the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black
* Josh Grisetti, Broadway, TV and film actor, in Broadway Bound, Enter Laughing
* Josie de Guzman, Broadway actor and singer
* Meredith Hagner, actress
* Jason Jurman, TV and film actor, in The Bedford Diaries, Cougar Club, Law & Order
* Chad Kimball, Broadway actor and singer in Memphis as Huey (lead) on Broadway
* Eddie Korbich, Broadway actor, singer, and dancer
* Rachael MacFarlane, voice actress and singer
* Constantine Maroulis, American Idol Season 4 contestant (1998—2002), Broadway actor and singer, 2009 Tony nominee for Leading Actor in a Musical for Rock of Ages
* Katharine McPhee, American Idol Season 5 contestant (2003—2005), actor and recording artist (attended but did not graduate)
* Travis Nesbitt, Final Mark in Altar Boyz Off-Broadway in 2010; creator and lead of The Boy Band Project, 2019 Broadway World Award winner for "Best Group Show"
* Jack Noseworthy, Broadway actor and singer
* Carlos Pena Jr., finalist on MTV's Making Menudo and Nickelodeon show Big Time Rush
* Hayley Podschun, Broadway and film actor, singer, dancer (Broadway: The Sound of Music, Tammy in Hairspray, Sunday in the Park with George, Pal Joey, Anything Goes, Mildred Harris in Chaplin; film: Tammy in Hairspray; national tour: Glinda in Wicked - 2nd national tour)
* Peter Reckell, TV actor
* Reva Rice, stage actress
* Claire Rochester, vaudeville
* Drew Sarich, Broadway, European actor and singer
* Keesha Sharp, Monica on Girlfriends, Pam in Why Did I Get Married?, NAACP Image Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress
* Jennifer Simard, Broadway Actress
* Nikki Snelson, Broadway actress and singer
* Jan Sport, singer and drag queen, RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars contestant
* Lin Tucci, TV, film, and stage actress, Nunsense, Showgirls, Anita in Orange is the New Black
* Marcia Marcia Marcia contestant on Rupaul's Drag Race, Marty Lauter performed in Kinky Boots, Cabaret, and the national tour of Hello, Dolly!
* Stephanie Umoh, Broadway actress (Sarah in 2009 revival of Ragtime)
* Matt Walton, actor
* Eleri Ward, singer-songwriter and actress

## Notable current faculty

* Kenneth Amis, tuba
* Lynn Chang, violin
* William Cotten, voice
* Pamela Dellal, voice
* Laura Marie Duncan, musical theater
* Michael Lewin, piano
* Jessica Webb, acting
* Janice Weber, pianist
* Nancy Zeltsman, marimba

## Boston Conservatory leadership

* Julius Eichberg, president, Boston Conservatory (1867–1893)
* R. Marriner Floyd, president, Boston Conservatory (1893–1920)
* Agide Jacchia, president, Boston Conservatory (1920–1932)
* Ester Ferrabini Jacchia, president, Boston Conservatory (1932–1933)
* Albert Alphin, president, Boston Conservatory (1933–1967)
* George A. Brambilla, president, Boston Conservatory (1967–1979)
* Dale A. DuVall, president, Boston Conservatory (1979–1981)
* William A. Seymour, president, Boston Conservatory (1981–1998)
* Richard Ortner, president, Boston Conservatory (1998–2017)
* Roger H. Brown, president, Berklee (2004–2021)
* Cathy Young, executive director, Boston Conservatory at Berklee (2017–2022)
* Erica Muhl, president, Berklee (2021–present)
* Lucinda Carver, interim executive director, Boston Conservatory at Berklee (2022–present)