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Singing, Musical Theory, Acting, Monologue, Piano, and Musical Skills Instructor

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A concert soprano and actor by trade, I am working in New York and New England and building my career as a performer. I am committed to continuing to teach throughout my performing career. Currently a member of the Apprentice Acting Company at The Barrow Group, an award-winning off-Broadway theatre, we are in rehearsal for our upcoming evening of short plays. I am also preparing two concert recitals set to debut later this year. My work is wide-ranging. Highlights of recent work include concert performances of the soprano solos in Carmina Burana, the soprano solos in Saint John's Passion (J.S. Bach), a multi-media chamber piece about the life of Amy Beach, work as a featured vocalist/fashion model in Mother Earth, Sister Moon, at MOMA's 2009 Performa Biennial, an original song featured in a major modern dance company’s touring repertoire, and featured acting roles in two Sundance Film Festival official selection feature films. A graduate of the prestigious Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, I have been a finalist in the West Palm Beach Opera Competition Junior Division, and a prize winner in the National Society of Arts and Letters’ Bloomington Chapter competition in both Acting and Music (voice).

The Basics:

Indiana University School of Music, BS in Music with a minor in Theatre, 2005
5 years experience teaching singing; 4 years experience teaching acting; 3 years experience teaching musical skills

Career Highlight:

I began teaching voice while studying vocal pedagogy at the top conservatory for voice and singing in the country, and my first student, who had never had lessons before, sang on a concert at the end of our first semester of study, and she was asked by a musician in the audience if she was a voice major. Wow!