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I have been doing this singing thing professionally for over 30 years now. (I started singing professionally in between my junior and senior years at university!) I have learned so much from all the teachers, coaches and conductors over the years, and I think it is important that I pass on the meshing together of the information from all these smart people. \u00a0Among the many instrumental teachers and coaches in my development have been Norma Newton, Regine Crespin, Gerald Martin Moore, Barbara Moore, Patrick Summers, Marlena Malas, Hans Hotter, Regina Resnik, Marco Boemi,\u00a0Irene Aitoff, Susanna Lemberskaya, Ethel Evans, Elena Servi-Burgess, Rita de Letteriis, Cathy Cathcart, David Miller, Jonathan Papp, Janine Reiss, and Bryndon Hassman, among countless others! \u00a0 Not to mention the great conductors who have taught me so much!<\/p>\n
So I have started teaching privately when I am in between engagements \u2013 and sometimes during engagements, if a student is nearby. In addition, I have started giving masterclasses when I can, either during the run of a show, or in conjunction with a recital tour.<\/p>\n
I have also mentored a few young professionals and one very talented beginner who is now a young professional himself. \u00a0I have been a mentor and consultant to the Bolshoi Young Artist program in Moscow, where I gave countless masterclasses, taught at the\u00a0Centre for Opera Studies in Italy (COSI) in Sulmona, the Tito Gobbi estate in Rome, and have done a residency at University of Texas at Austin, as well as masterclasses at other opera houses\u2019 young artist programs and in many universities (Loyola, Baylor, SMU, Texas State University, Southwestern University, Dallas Opera\u2026)<\/p>\n
I have a lot to offer students not only in the information I have to transmit (with a very keen ear!), but also in the human, humane and humorous manner in which I can cajole and entice them into stretching themselves and into learning new ways to listen and correct themselves. I have had some miraculous transformations of students, and I am proud that my long-term students are having professional successes, as well. \u00a0I think it is important to give students tools to work on the different vocal challenges they are trying to correct, and for them to discover how to work on their own, once I am not there. I believe that the biggest talent in singing is not innate talent, but knowing how to work, and actually enjoying the work so that you put the time and effort into it that is needed for excellence. Students have to learn how to hear themselves, feel what they are doing right\/wrong, and learn how to recreate the right way. This is what makes for exciting singing, because it is not happenstance \u2013 it is stable and consistent. Some students only get a fantastic sound by chance: this is not talent, and this is not enough. \u00a0I can help students discover how to work and how to become more consistent singers.<\/p>\n
Then, of course, there is the continual development of the ear. Singers don\u2019t realize that things were not \u201cso much easier when I was younger\u2026\u201d They just didn\u2019t require as much of themselves and were complacent with what they heard. As singers, we have to consciously get pickier and pickier about what we accept as a beautiful sound from ourselves, and as a result, we can make amazing developments in our singing. \u00a0Good singers are constantly analyzing sound, even though they may not consciously be aware of it all the time. \u00a0I try to get students to make this process of analyzing and incorporating elements into vocal technique a conscious one.<\/p>\n
The singer\u2019s whole \u201cpackage\u201d is important, once they have their technique under control. \u00a0I had to work extensively on my posture, acting, languages, and expression, and as a result I am in an optimal position to teach these acquired skills. \u00a0I am especially proud these days when often my acting gets mentioned first in reviews. \u00a0I did not start out as a good performer at all \u2013 \u2013 acting and stage presence are two things that I had to work extensively to acquire. My first teacher Barbara Hill Moore helped \u201cput me together\u201d and taught me how to present myself, and I followed up that by intensively studying acting with Ethel Evans at San Francisco Opera and Sabin Epstein of American Conservatory Theater.<\/p>\n
My love for languages led me to pursue a second degree \u2013 in foreign languages, which has served me well in my life: I have lived in Belgium and Italy for the past 25+ years, besides traveling all over the world with my career! I\u2019m fluent in French, Italian and Spanish, and conversant in German and Dutch, besides a smattering of Japanese and Russian.<\/p>\n
In private studies, I work intensively with students, (pedantically sometimes!) and usually spend at least an hour and a half per lesson. \u00a0I expect students to be highly motivated to record their lessons, take notes, review them, and work hard on the exercises given them in between lessons. \u00a0I am interested in working with singers who are serious about making a career in opera singing and have the talent and work ethic to make it happen.<\/p>\n
For students interested in studying with me at my home in Turin, Italy, I require a recent video or audio selection as an audition, and\/or a recommendation by someone I know and trust. \u00a0If you are a school or organization that is interested in me giving a masterclass there, \u00a0please feel free to contact me, as well. \u00a0After having two children late in life, I am interested more and more at being closer to home, and away from home for shorter periods, so please take advantage of that! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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