Artistic Director
Eve K. Budnick founded Opera del West 19 years ago, music directing 34 productions for the company. “Eve Budnick’s reputation for excellence is well-known in the business” (Thomas Pasatieri, opera composer). She has produced operas from the Baroque to the Contemporary period that were performed at The Center for Arts in Natick, Boston Center for Arts, Amazing Things Arts Center and churches in Falmouth and Cambridge. In the last couple of years, she’s created two online operas, Zoompresario, and La Divina.
Eve is the Chair of the Voice Department at Rivers School Conservatory, teaching vocal workshops, vocal diction and a vocal performance class, organizing masterclasses, and commissioning vocal works for the Contemporary Seminar. She has served as a Diction instructor for the Voice and Choral Conducting Department at Boston University and previously taught Diction and Vocal Literature at University of Connecticut. Eve was trained over two summers in the Boston Lyric Opera “Music! Words! Opera!” program to compose and direct original operas in the classroom. She has been a Music Director and Pianist for Opera Boston and Music Director for Suor Angelica for Boston Opera Collaborative. Ms. Budnick has been the music director for opera scenes programs for the Boston University Opera Institute, New England Conservatory Opera Workshop and Summer Opera Workshop. She has performed in faculty recitals at the University of Connecticut, Boston Conservatory, and Princeton University. Eve holds a bachelor’s degree in Musicology from Princeton, a master’s degree in Vocal Accompaniment and Coaching from BU, and a graduate diploma in Collaborative Piano from New England Conservatory.