Bénédicte Jourdois

French pianist and vocal coach Bénédicte Jourdois (Graduate Diploma ’08, collaborative piano) is a member of the Metropolitan Opera music staff and teaches and coaches at the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and Juilliard. With Steven Blier, she co-directs the Schwab Vocal Rising Stars program at Caramoor. Jourdois has performed in numerous venues in Europe and in the U.S., including Alice Tully and Carnegie halls and the Kennedy Center. As a coach and pianist, she has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, LA Opera, Chicago Lyric Ryan Opera Center, Chicago Opera Theater, Pittsburgh Opera, Washington National Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Saratoga, Rice University, Chautauqua Institution voice program, Castleton Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio. She was previously a faculty member at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and at the Manhattan School of Music. Born in Paris, Jourdois holds degrees from the Conservatoire National de Region de Saint-Maur, the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon, Mannes College, and Juilliard, and is a graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.