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The American mezzo-soprano singer and arts adminstrator, Shannon Rose McAuliffe, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Music History, Voice from University of Massachusetts Amherst (2005-2009); hrer Master of Music degree in Historical Performance from Boston University (2009-2011); and her Master’s degree in Arts Administration from Boston University Metropolitan College (2015-2017).
Shannon Rose McAuliffe has served as Faculty and Student Support Administrator, College of Fine Arts (November 2013-March 2016) and Senior Faculty and Student Support Administrator (March 2016-July 2017) at Boston University; Interim Development Manager at Emmanuel Music in Boston (January-April 2017); Associate Director of Institutional Giving atHandel and Haydn Society in Boston (July 2017-September 2019); Manager of Student Arts Programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (September 2019-January 2023), where she ran the Arts Startup Incubator (formerly the $15K Creative Arts Competition), supporting student founders through mentorship, workshops, pitch development, and startup funding opportunities; Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University in Boston (since September 2020); Course Facilitator at Boston University (since March 2018).
Currently Shannon Rose McAuliffe is an affiliated faculty member in the Entrepreneurship minor (E3) at Emerson College in Boston (since September 2023), where she supports students with the fundamentals of entrepreneurialism, venture development, storytelling, pitching, creative problem-solving, and socially conscious business practices. She also serves as assistant director of programming and advocacy at Boston Singers’ Resource (since September 2023), where her work focuses on equity and advocacy for professional musicians in New England. Her scholarly work explores topics including gender-based violence and trauma in opera, the relationship between artists and audiences, and nonprofit leadership in the arts.
Shannon Rose McAuliffe is also co-founder and co-director of Festina, a professional chamber ensemble that specializes in early sacred music and historically informed performance. The ensemble draws artists from renowned organizations throughout the USA and Europe, and is known for programming that pairs canonical repertoire with underperformed works and contemporary commissions. Her other performance work includes engagements with Odyssey Opera, Opera Huntsville, the MIT Symphony Orchestra, the Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Tallahassee Bach Parley, and the Hans Zimmer Live and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth concert tours. Se is also a member of and Marsh Chapel Choir (since 2026; Director: Scott Allen Jarrett).
In addition to her work at Emerson, McAuliffe has created and taught courses at Boston and Northeastern universities in arts administration, cultural policy and advocacy, storytelling, and community-based arts engagement. |
