Associate Dean for Academic and Special Programs

Voice Program: Mezzo-Soprano

Jacqueline Bobak, mezzo-soprano, performs repertoire ranging from opera to chamber works, from the traditional to the avant-garde, with the majority of her work focusing on the performance of newly written and emerging music. Recent performances and work in progress frequently incorporate interdisciplinary and multi-media aspects and she currently is involved in a large-scale project with John Cage’s Song Books. Ms. Bobak has appeared on the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella series, the Monday Evening Concerts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pacific Contemporary Music Center Festival, the Moravian Autumn Festival and New Music Exposition (Brno, Czech Republic), the York Spring Music Festival (UK), and at REDCAT, the Getty Center, Richard Wagner Hall (Riga, Latvia), The Roxy (Prague), Maybeck Hall (Berkeley), and on numerous festivals and conferences. She also has appeared as a soloist and ensemble member with Xtet, the California E.A.R. Unit, Electric Phoenix (with the Minnesota Orchestra and Chicago's Grant Park Symphony), and the CalArts New Century Players, and currently has a duo ensemble with Czech percussionist Dan Dlouhy. She has premiered works by Wadada Leo Smith, Chinary Ung, Frederic Rzewski, William Brooks and Ivo Medek; and has recorded for New World. As an advocate for new vocal music, she held a Lorado Taft Visiting Artist residency at the University of Illinois, and has given presentations and masterclasses at the Lake Placid Seminars, the International Summer Music School (Ogre, Latvia), and at universities in England, the Czech Republic and United States. She holds MM and DMA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a BM degree from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. Since 1991 she has taught at the California Institute of the Arts, where she is Associate Dean for Academic and Special Projects in the School of Music.