Angky Budiardjono MM '15 (Vocal Performance) spent four weeks this summer training and performing intensively at OperaWorks' Advanced Artist Program. OperaWorks is a nationally acclaimed summer training program in Northridge, California where students encounter a holistic approach to operatic training. Through the Baker Artist Program, Angky was able to meet Ann Baltz during her three-day residency in fall 2013, and was later accepted to participate in OperaWorks during summer 2014. There, he took acting classes, improvisation classes, vocal coachings, as well as audition technique classes and career/social media planning and networking. He also performed in aria marathons as well as an improv opera, which featured thirty-two singers from around the world. Angky was recently a part of the Syracuse Change a Life campaign and also sang the Syracuse Alma Mater with the SU Marching Band during the New Student Convocation. He can be seen in the Syracuse Opera Chorus later this month in a production of Strauss' Die Fledermaus. Learn more about Angky at http://changealife.syr.edu/angky/.