Teaching Artist Statement

I am interested in how people engage with music from three main perspectives: ‘personal internal,’ or how we intake music, ‘personal external,’ or how we produce music, and ‘communal external,’ or how we experience music as a group. I’ve always known that I want to share music on a personal level. Through experiences like teaching, church singing, and funeral soloing, I have seen how music affects us intimately. I tell everyone I know to just sing. Sing in the shower or in the car alone, sing with your friends or at karaoke night. Sing in a local choir or musical theater group. Make noise. Express yourself. It is a language we all speak that we didn’t know we knew. I enjoy helping students find their own direction. By combining musicality with music fundamentals, students can develop into well-rounded musicians, with their own sense of individuality and an eagerness to find their own voice in the world. 

Teaching Bio

Caitlin has worked as a private voice teacher and musical director for a number of years, most recently with the Seattle children’s theater company Broadway Bound, directing the musical Aladdin Jr., and the SE Regional High School in Quincy, MA, directing the Addams Family musical and Aladdin. She started a boys barbershop quartet and has directed choral performances at charity galas. She teaches private lessons to both children and adults. 

Performance Bio

Caitlin Nuckolls is an American soprano based in Seattle, Washington. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied classical voice and opera with dramatic soprano Jane Eaglen. She has sung nationwide, as well as in Europe, in places such as LA, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Italy, and Austria, both as a solo performer and in operatic choruses. Since moving to Seattle she has been performing with the Puget Sound Concert Opera and Engage Opera, being featured in many works including Hansel and Gretel, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Don Giovanni, and Manon.