Jodi Goble

Opera/Vocal Coach Accompanist

Collaborative pianist and composer Jodi Goble joins the Iowa State University faculty from the Boston University College of Fine Arts, where she has for nine years been a vocal pianist-coach and member of the voice faculty: coaching singers, teaching phonetics, and coordinating and directing undergraduate opera scenes. Ms. Goble has also taught diction and song literature at the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Natick, MA, and served for three years as the primary rehearsal pianist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Festival Chorus. During the summer, she coaches voice, teaches diction and is the Coordinator of Opera Programs for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Vocal Program in Lenox, MA, a position she has held for eleven seasons.

Ms. Goble's opera and music theatre credits include work with The Boston Conservatory, the Footlight Club, Stage One, Actor's Collaborative, Berkshire Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera Guild. A sought-after collaborative artist in Boston, she has recitaled at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Harvard Musical Association, the Tsai Center for the Performing Arts, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Grey House at M.I.T., Lowell House at Harvard, the Berkshire Museum, and Jordan Hall. She collaborates regularly with renowned operatic bass-baritone Simon Estes in recital, both locally and across the United States. Her work with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus has taken her from Boston's Symphony Hall to Carnegie Hall in New York City, across six European countries, and back to Tanglewood, where she performed on the TFC's annual Prelude Concert at Seiji Ozawa Hall. During her tenure with the TFC, she has been privileged to play under conductors James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Keith Lockhart, and Seiji Ozawa, and to collaborate in rehearsal with artists such as José van Dam, Paul Groves, Yvonne Naef, Stephanie Blythe, Marcello Giordano, and Peter Serkin.

The 2008-2009 season saw the April premiere of Ms. Goble's song cycle Nashtunes for tenor and piano on texts of Ogden Nash, as well as public performances of her operatic interludes, Four Intermezzi for Women's Voices, written to be staged concurrently with the Randall Thompson one-act opera Solomon and Balkis and premiered in January 2009 by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Operatecture Project, a ground-breaking, award-winning program that combines the traditional form of opera with dance, spoken word, and real-time audio and video input. The Intermezzi were featured on National Public Radio the week of the premiere, and have since received additional performances in Operatecture's outreach programs in and around Charlotte. Summer 2009 brought a second performance of Nashtunes at Tanglewood, along with performances of Ms. Goble's earlier song cycles Twelve Chairs, Complicated Hymns, and The Ivory Box is Broken, a cycle designated as a Top 12 Finalist in the 2007-2008 National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Competition and displayed at the NATS National Convention in June 2008.

Ms. Goble holds bachelor's degrees in violin and piano performance from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, IL, and did her master's study in collaborative piano and chamber music with pianist Robert Palmer at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. She and her husband, choral conductor, organist, and handbell impresario Patrick Gagnon, live in Hubbard, IA.