Merced Stratton’s House Party

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Merced Stratton hosts her first NATS BOSTON House Party with two of her National Association of Teachers of Singing: Cassie Kollman and Tyler Cesario. JJ Thomchick will be joining them on the piano.

Merced Stratton is a Boston-based singer, teacher, and scholar whose pedagogical interests include psychoacoustics, cross-training, and asset-based pedagogy. She has premiered works with Los Angeles Opera Connects, Vibrant Matter Collective, and Guerilla Opera at Boston Conservatory, and performed operetta, musical theater, and jazz across the world. She has presented her scholarly work at the Pan-American Vocology Association, The Voice Foundation, and Boston Conservatory’s Vocal Pedagogy Symposium. As a Post-Master’s Fellow at Berklee College of Music, she developed a collegiate ear training course exploring vocal timbre across styles called “Introduction to Functional Hearing and Singing.” She completed her MM in Vocal Pedagogy at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and currently serves as a Voice Instructor at University of Massachusetts Boston and Chapter President of Boston NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing). She maintains a private studio in Cambridge, MA, and can be found online at mercedstratton.com.

Cassie Kollman is a Boston-based jazz singer-songwriter and teaching artist known for a jazz-rock sound blending technical precision with emotive storytelling, drawing on jazz, R&B, and blues through a modern improvisational lens. Cassie has performed as a soloist and bandleader across the east coast and internationally, with ensemble credits including Sweet Honey in the Rock and the Afghanistan Freeharmonic Orchestra. She released her debut album, Lady in Shoes, in 2021, with her second record, Mixed Messages, arriving October 2026.

Tyler Cesario is a Boston based tenor, private voice teacher, clinician, as well as a teaching associate at Brown University. Tyler holds degrees in music education and vocal pedagogy from Westminster Choir College (B.M.) and the Boston Conservatory at Berkeley (M.M.) respectively. He specializes in teaching flexible technique and singing diverse and versatile repertoire. His most recent engagements include: Chorus in Verdi’s Aida and Carousel with the Boston Lyric Opera, Deputy in Verdi’s Don Carlo with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra Israelite man/Messenger in Handel’s Samson with Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, Don Basillio/Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro with NEMPAC opera project, and the Tenor soloist in César Franck’s Messe à Trois Voix.