• Kris is an Associate Professor in the Harmony Department at Berklee College of Music. In addition to teaching classes in Harmony, she also teaches ensembles and a piano lab for singers. Her other teaching duties include private lessons at Wellesley College and New England Conservatory.
• Kris is also a busy clinician, and has worked at: The Northern Arizona University, Jazz & Madrigal Festival, The ClarkTerry-University of New Hampshire Jazz Festival, The Berklee High School Jazz Festival, and the Kris Adams & Lisa Thorson Jazz Vocal Workshops among others.
• She has also been Artist-in-Residence at the Centro-Cultural Costariccense Norteamericano, Costa Rica and at the Berklee in LA Jazz Clinics. Kris has worked with Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton, Michelle Hendricks (Spoleto Arts Symposia's Vocal Jazz Workshop), Monica Salmaso (San Paulo, Brazil) and Norma Winstone (Bertinoro Music Scuola). She has level 1 and 2 certification in teaching Jeannie Lo Vetri's Somatic Voicework technique.• To learn more about Kris' teaching and clinic endeavors, please visit the following sites: