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Blair Boone-Migura - Founder & Executive Director

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In addition to being a recognized leader in arts administration, Blair Boone-Migura is also an educator, classical musician, and was the public radio show host of Singing & Other Sins on NPR-Hawaii. He is also a published music and film journalist whose written many reviews and profiles as well as interviewed a wide range of personalities that include Grammy-winning artists, American composer, Dominick Argento and Haitian-American artist, Wyclef Jean, along with Grammy-nominated artists, American composer, Ned Rorem, German Baritone, Matthias Goerne, and American jazz pianist, Fred Hersch.  

Blair is a guest lecturer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the Music Department, where he teaches a course in French & German song literature and private voice lessons. He has also taught courses in vocal pedagogy and coached the opera workshop. Additionally, Blair has worked as an adjunct faculty member at The New School, Hunter College, and Queensborough College in New York.
 
In May 2013, Blair had the honor of assisting the legendary piano collaborator Dalton Baldwin, along with two of French song's most accomplished sopranos Elly Ameling and Rosemarie Landry, alongside several other highly notable adjudicators of distinction, in the development and execution of the Positively Poulenc Vocal Competition and Recital at the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library. Blair previously served as the Arts Administrative Director at The International Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI) in New York with co-founders, Joan Dornemann and Paul Nadler.


In April and May 2014, Blair collaborated with the French American Cultural Exchange and the Artistic Department of the French Cultural Services and aided in the execution of two arts festivals: ART2, A French-American Platform on Contemporary Art, and DANSE, A French-American Festival of Performance & Ideas.
 
In 2010, Blair founded the nonprofit arts organization The Art Song Preservation Society of New York (ASPS) where he also serves as Executive Director. ASPS is dedicated to revitalizing the art song tradition through education and performance. It's "where music speaks ,and words sing!" Blair founded ASPS because of his concern over the decline and deep interest in promoting this declining area of vocal literature and in honor of his mentor of twenty-two years, master French and German song specialist, Mary Trueman (1915-2008). Blair studied voice with Mary Trueman (Rice University), JoElyn Walkefied-Wright  (Syracuse University),  Elisabeth Schroeder (The Strasbourg Conservatory of Music) and Elem Eley (Westminster Choir College). Blair also studied piano accompaniment with Mary Trueman, Steve Heyman (Syracuse University) and continues to study piano privately with Edward Nemirovsky in NYC as well as Shirley Kirsten.
 
Blair has a bachelor’s degree in Voice Performance (honors) and a master’s degree in French Language, Literature and Culture from Syracuse University. He also studied voice and piano at the Strasbourg Conservatory of Music in Strasbourg, France, and he holds a second master's degree in Vocal Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, where he graduated with honors and distinction. 
Blair is also a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the office of President Barack Obama during his administration for a demonstrated commitment to building a stronger nation through community and volunteer service. In recent years, Blair joined the Board of Directors of the Alliance Française in Hawaii, and is married to Dr. Anthony Migura, a critical-care physician at Advanced ICU Care, a pulmonary/critical care Intensivist at Queens Hospital, and an assistant clinical professor with UH Medical School. They divide their time between New York City and Honolulu, Hawai'i with their American Tabby Cat, Jessye.

In September 2016, Blair joined Gary Hickling as a co-host on "Singing & Other Sins" a radio show that Hickling created that airs on Saturdays on Hawai`i Public Radio KHPR 88.1-FM  at 5pm HST (also streams online on HPR-2 at hawaiipublicradio.org). On the show, Blair presents on-air and online content on artists such as: Swedish tenor, Jussi Björling, American soprano, Jessye Norman, American pianist, Dalton Baldwin, art song composers Richard Strauss and Henri Duparc, and interviews with prominent artists like American composers, Dominick Argento and Ned Rorem, American conductor and pianist, Thomas Muraco, American collaborative pianist and author, Thomas Grubb, American pianist, Mark Markham, and James Gandre the President of Manhattan School of Music. Program archives can be found: http://lottelehmannleague.org/ singing-sins-archive/

In 2022, Blair was elected as President of the Hawaii chapter of the Alliance Française where he has been a Board member since 2017.

Blair has appeared on Bravo’s Queer Eye For The Straight Guy as the Fab 5’s original culture expert. He has been a featured critic on VH1, has appeared as a guest on The Howard Stern Show and was featured as a gymnast in a Panasonic commercial promoting the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.  


Listen below to Blair Boone-Migura as co-host of Singing & Other Sins on NPR-Hawaii.
Interview with Mark Markham, a prominent pianist with a long history or partnering with world class singers such as soprano Jessye Norman (1945-2019) & Black History Month Celebrating 
African American Singers

Blair Boone-Migura
​on Wyclef Jean 

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​Blair Boone-Migura on JR Vasquez

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Blair Boone-Migura Reviews

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Blair Boone-Migura's Profile on Fred Hersch

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  • Home
  • Summer of Song Festival 2022
  • About Us
    • Board of Directors >
      • Blair Boone-Migura
      • Cristie Strongman
      • Courtenay Casey
      • Raven Glover
    • Creative Executive Team >
      • Celeste Chau
      • Padraic Costello
      • Eric Sedgwick
    • Advisory Board >
      • Dalton Baldwin
      • Christopher Berg
      • Corradina Caporello
      • Frank Daykin
      • Melissa Gerstein
      • Thomas Grubb
      • Carol Kimball
      • Kathryn LaBouff
      • Mark Markham
      • Thomas Muraco
      • Marni Nixon
      • Janet Price
      • Michel Sénéchal
      • Arlene Shrut
      • Paul Sperry
  • Media
    • Video Recordings
    • Audio Recordings
    • Radio Interviews
    • Radio Appearances
    • Spring into Song Archive >
      • Season of Song Festival 2020
      • Summer of Song Festival 2021 >
        • Summer of Song Festival 2022
      • 2017 Spring Into Song - Sandra Hamoui Concert
      • 2017 Spring Into Song - Robert Brandt Concert
      • 2016 Spring Into Song
      • Spring into Song 2015
      • Spring Into Song 2014
      • Program Archive
      • Summer of Song 2013
    • Event Photos
  • Mary Trueman Vocal Arts Competition
    • 2017-18 Finalists
    • 2015-16 Finalists
    • 2014 Winners
    • 2013-14 Competition Finalists
    • 2012 Winners
    • About Mary Trueman
    • Mary Trueman: In Her Words
  • Artist Education and Collaboration Resources
    • Song Studio Classes
    • Voice Lessons & Coachings
    • Testimonials
    • Recommended Pianists
  • Singing & Other Sins Public Radio Show
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