Jeremy Yeremian is a French-Armenian music producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist currently based in Los Angeles with a career that spans decades in various capacities. He started as an artist signed to EMI, Pathe Marconi in Paris, France and later on moved to Hollywood to pursue studies at the Musician Institute of Technology. Highlights of his career include working extensively in the studio with Randy Jackson (MCA, American Idol) developing artists and producing music for several American and French record labels. Jeremy’s reputation has also led to working with Diane Warren, David Foster, Ricky Martin, Pink, Kelly Osbourne, Sean Paul, Barrington Levy and M. Polnareff to name a few.

Miklos Malek is an American-Hungarian music producer, mixing / mastering engineer and songwriter. He is known for his deep musical knowledge, dedication to quality and his unique ability to elevate every project he touches in unexpected ways. Miklos’ credits include Ariana Grande, Jennifer Lopez, Armin Van Buuren, Anastacia, Pixie Lott, Yanni, and The X-Factor. His work has been featured on over 15 million records.

Born in Budapest, Miklos has inherited the rich musical lineage of his parents. He studied classical piano and composition while working on pop hits. After receiving his master’s degree from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Miklos went to Boston and studied at Berklee College of Music. Soon after he was offered a publishing deal in New York, which led to his breakthrough in the USA first as a songwriter (Anastacia) and then as a producer / arranger (Jennifer Lopez, Anastacia, Dream).

In 2006, Miklos launched his studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles. He began focusing more on developing new artists, mixing / mastering (Ariana Grande, Armin Van Buuren, Aloe Blacc) and expanding into new genres (Yanni, Markus Schulz). In 2010, Miklos was invited to be a judge on X-Factor, the Hungarian version of the wildly popular talent show. Through auditioning thousands of people and coaching his contestants to victory, he gained a deeper understanding of how to bring the best out of artists.

Building on his successful mentoring in X-Factor, Miklos shares his knowledge around the world in the form of masterclasses, workshops and one-on-one coaching (Microsoft, Los Angeles Music Industry Summer Academy, SynthPlex, American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers).

Japanese native Junichi Fukuda has danced with companies such as Ballet Tech/NY, Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Buglisi Dance Theatre, and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company. Fukuda has been recognized with several awards and fellowships, including from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, the S&R Foundation, the Boston Dance Alliance, the Boston Foundations, the Boston Cultural Council, the American Dance Abroad, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Mass Cultural Council. In 2014, he founded his company, FUKUDANCE, which has performed at festivals worldwide, including MASDANZA in Spain and Mexico City's Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea de la Ciudad, Dance St. Louis' The Spring to Dance Festival, DanceNow at Joe's Pub Festival, and Bates Dance Festival. Fukuda's work has been praised for its "tasteful proposal" and "a work of easeful harmony" by the Washington Post, and he continues to collaborate with local artists in Japan while teaching at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and working as a guest choreographer for the City Ballet of Boston and the Asian American Ballet Project. www.fukudance.com 

Shilpa Ananth is an Indian vocalist, songwriter, composer and producer based in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. She has a unique sound that fuses the dreamy landscapes of South India with soul, jazz, and electronic music. Shilpa creates art that transcends borders and cultures, blending three of the oldest Indian languages — Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi — with English. "After graduating with honours from Berklee College of Music, Shilpa released her debut EP Indian Soul and went on to record and perform Grammy Award-winning composers A. R. Rahman, Bobby McFerrin, Bill Whalen and Javier Limon's Original Quartet." She has also toured extensively with the Serbian female vocal group ROSA, the Berklee Indian Ensemble, Women of the World and with the Bollywood Boulevard musical production, performing at US venues such as Boston Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theatre, NJPAC, Wolf Trap and The John F. Kennedy Center.

Zipporah Peddle joined Boston Conservatory’s voice faculty in 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Voice and Vocal Pedagogy. She teaches Applied Voice to students in the BFA Musical Theatre and MFA Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy programs, and Developmental Repertoire for the Teaching Studio. This summer she will speak on musical theatre developmental repertoire at the Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop at the Conservatory.

 

Ms. Peddle sang in nearly 3000 performances as lead vocalist in Cirque du Soleil's top selling production show, O. She has performed in numerous musicals, concerts, cabarets, new musical workshops, tours, and recitals, at venues throughout the United States and Canada. She toured internationally with the professional choir The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, and has worked as a production vocalist, guest entertainer, and vocalist supervisor for various cruise lines. She most recently appeared in Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert with the Boston Pops at the internationally renowned Tanglewood Music Festival.  

 

Ms. Peddle previously served on the theatre faculty at Missouri State University where she created a program of Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) style and pedagogy courses for the BFA Musical Theatre program. She has led private voice studios in Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Toronto, and regularly provides masterclasses on musical theatre and CCM vocal style. She has presented her research at conferences for the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Pan American Vocology Institute, and the Voice Foundation. 

 

Ms. Peddle holds an M.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a B.M. from Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada. She is a PAVA-Recognized Vocologist.