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Curtis Serafin

Curtis Serafin headshot

Voice Faculty

Vocal

The Hartt School
Education

Manhattan School of Music

Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music

Curtis Serafin joins the faculty of The Hartt School following the conclusion of his fifth festival season as assistant conductor at the Sarasota Opera, where he has played productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Tosca, Attila, La scala di seta, and Dido & Aeneas.

Between 2022 and 2024, Serafin completed a collaborative piano fellowship with Yale Opera. In 2024, Serafin made his Merkin Hall debut with Berkshire Opera Festival for The Reef by Anthony Davis and began working with the Opera Company of Middlebury.

As a conductor, Serafin has led five successful productions with Chicago Summer Opera. Other summer seasons have included fellowships at the Tanglewood Institute, Stephanie Blythe’s Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, Manchester Music Festival, and Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. Curtis

Serafin is a graduate of Warren Jones’s studio at the Manhattan School of Music; this was preceded by the completion of his undergraduate studies in piano performance at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.