Candace Burgess, a doctoral student in the Dietrich School's Department of Music, sat down with NBC's Harry Smith to talk about her graduate work focusing on the lives and legacies of Black classical composers, singers historical Black Classical music communities as seen in Brazil, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
Burgess specializes in the styles of opera, classical, jazz, and musical theater. An accomplished artist, Burgess has shared the stage with Esperanza Spalding, Ysaye Barnwell, Geri Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Peter Yarrow. She has participated in Chicago Summer Opera’s 2018 production of “Die Zauberflöte” as Third knaben and most recently Demaskus Theater collective’s May 2020 rendition of the opera “Song of the Uproar”. Burgess was also the lead vocalist in The Associates of the Boston Public Library’s 2020 production of Giving Voice to the Abolitionists.