1 VOICEPrints JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK SINGING TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2008
IN THISIssue: NYSTA Presidents: A History...... Page 1 NYSTA Message from Our New President, David Sabella-Mills...... Page 2 Presidents: Meet NYSTA’s 2008-2011 Officers and Board of Directors...... Pages 3-7 A History
Message from VOICEPrints Editor, Leon Carson 1940-1942 Matthew Hoch...... Page 7 Walter Golde 1944-1946 Broadway Discount Offer for [title of show] Before Solon Alberti (dates of terms unknown): to NYSTA Members...... Back Cover Carl Gutekunst, Walter Mattern, Edgar Schofield, Walter Bogert, Edward Harris, Homer Mowe, Bernard Taylor NYSTANews...... Back Cover Solon Alberti 1950-1952 Cecile Jacobson 1952-1954 George Rasely 1954-1956 Carl Gutekunst 1956-1958 Featured Event: Burton Cornwall 1958-1960 Earl Rogers 1960-1962 CELEBRATINGIn The Heights Dolf Swing 1962-1964 AND Willard Young 1964-1966 SEASON OPENINGReception Constance Eberhart 1966-1968 October 6, 2008 William Gephart 1968-1970 Monday, 6:00PM - 9:00 PM Lola Hayes 1970-1972 Donald Read 1972-1974 Nominated for thirteen TONY awards, members Craig Timberlake 1974-1976 of the cast of In the Heights will share with us their Ingrid Sobolewska 1976-1978 incredible journey taking this musical from its humble Cesare Longo 1978-1980 beginnings to its triumphant, and groundbreaking Robert Latherow 1980-1982 Broadway run. And discuss the rigors of this unique Helen Lightner 1982-1984 vocal music in an eight-shows-a-week schedule. Thomas Rexdale 1984-1987 Panel includes Andrea Burns, (Songs for a New Jeannette LoVetri 1987-1990 World, The Full Monty, The Ritz, Beauty and the Beast) Mara Waldman 1990-1993 and TONY Nominee Olga Merediz (Man of La Mancha, Jan Eric Douglas 1993-1996 Mamma Mia, and Les Miserables). David Adams 1996-1999 A catered reception follows the brief question and Janet Pranschke 1999-2002 answer session at: Dora Ohrenstein 2002-2004 Laurie Beecham Theater at the West Bank Café, Josephine Mongiardo 2004-2008 407 West 42nd Street (just west of 9th Avenue). David Sabella-Mills 2008-present Free to members, $25 non-members, $15 students with valid ID. Living Past Presidents (as of August, 2008) Jan Eric Douglas, Robert Latherow, Jeannette LoVetri, Please Note there is limited seating for this event so reservations are
Josephine Mongiardo, Dora Ohrenstein, Janet Pranschke Hook Graphic Design/ Donald Van (212) 666-1220 required and will be given out on a first-come, first-serve basis. Members use the RSVP form located on the NYSTA website (Member’s Thomas Rexdale, Ingrid Sobolewska, Mara Waldman Log In page). Non-Members must purchase tickets to this event on the NYSTA website (Events page). List assembled by Katharine Hoffman John Ostendorf 2
MESSAGE FROM THEPresident
Welcome to NYSTA’s 2008–2009 season! you have created your own Facebook page, With a new administration and new goals, come check out (do a search for) the NYSTA this promises to be one of our most exciting Group on Facebook. This is a wonderful (and seasons yet. As your new President, let me start free) resource for members and friends to stay by expressing my deepest gratitude to our in touch with each other. former President, Josephine Mongiardo, and Video archives of events now avail- These are just a few of the newest features her Board of Directors. Under Josephine’s able for membership viewing online. and advancements we have endeavored to administration NYSTA has emerged to become Several members, and especially our long- make on your behalf and for the betterment of a national and even international organization distance members, have already taken vocal pedagogy everywhere. And, to that end, with members and visitors to our website, from advantage of this newest perk of membership as NYSTA moves into its 103rd season, we all across the United States and Europe. and have emailed us to thank NYSTA for continue to embrace all voice professionals, Our new website presence and online/on making these events available online. Different pedagogies, and technologies. No matter what demand PDP Courses have brought NYSTA to from our PDP courses, these video recordings style of voice you teach, Bach to Rock and the attention of teachers all around the globe. are ONLY available to NYSTA members and are beyond, and no matter where you live or teach, And, while these projects were especially near FREE to view at any time. If you were not able I hope you will join us this season on-site, online and dear to me, and undertaken by the entire to attend all of last season’s events, you can or on demand. Board of Directors, had it not been for Jo- access these video recordings right from the Lastly, our new (and national) Board of sephine’s commitment to this vision of NYSTA NYSTA website. Simply log in to the member’s Directors, featured in this issue, is comprised of as a worldwide organization we might not be section of the website (with your username and both veteran and new members from around enjoying our current expansion in both mem- password) and click on the link “View Video the country, all of whom bring magnificent and bership and PDP enrollment. THANK YOU, Archives.” The current archives include: specific talents to the BOD, and have made a Josephine! No rest for the weary, however— ■“The Contemporary Singer in the World great commitment to you (our members) and Josephine remains on our Board of Directors, of Recorded Music” our organization. Please be sure to introduce and as my Vice President. And, I am honored ■ A voice science masterclass with Dr. yourself to the Board of Directors at this to have her support and counsel. Brian Gill season’s opening event (a celebration of the In this new season, there are many exciting ■ A musical theater masterclass with ground-breaking Broadway musical, In the things emerging. Here is a brief update: Meg Bussert Heights.) And, if you yourself would like to be NYSTA is in its final phase of ■ The David Adams Art Song Competition on our Board of Directors (or join any of our going GREEN... Winners Recital ongoing organizational committees) please let Over the last three years, we have made And, this season we have several exciting me know directly. every effort to “go green” by reducing our and informative events planned for you as well. With high speed internet technology you paper mailings for Membership Renewal, Please be sure to join us for: can now participate in Board and committee NYSTA News, PDP, and Events. This year we ■ A celebration of the Broadway musical meetings from your own home, anywhere continue that effort by delivering VOICEPrints In the Heights around the world. At our last convening, Board (the journal you are reading now) via the ■ A masterclass with the acclaimed soprano members joined us from two different cities in internet, as a down-loadable, printable Catherine Malfitano Georgia (one on a layover in an airport lounge), “webzine.” In addition to the obvious benefits ■ Our famous musical theater “16 Bar New Jersey, and from Staten Island. If you in this delivery, members may be excited to Clinic” would like to become more involved with learn that as a PDF document, it is also possible ■ Accessing the Inner Diva/Divo - An NYSTA but think you don’t have the time, or to enlarge the text to whatever size is most exploration of Neuro-Linguistic Psychol- can’t commit to traveling to Manhattan for comfortable to read. ogy as it relates to performance. organizational meetings, then think again. If I encourage you join us live on-site for these you are reading this issue of VOICEPrints online PDP Courses available On-Site, special events. But, if you are unable to come in Online and On Demand then chances are you have all or most of the person, you will be able to view them online as technology required to participate as fully as Last season, over 75 registrants from around they become available. the country took part in three courses offered in you would like. And, we would love to hear our PDP Core Curriculum (Vocal Anatomy and Atlantis Health Insurance Coverage from you! For more information on how to Physiology, Voice Acoustics and Resonance, and available to members become more involved please email me at Comparative Pedagogy 2008). This was the Thanks again to the efforts of Josephine [email protected] highest PDP enrollment in a single season since Mongiardo, NYSTA members now have access I look forward to seeing you all this season. the inception of the program. And, this season to affordable health insurance though Atlantis And, I look forward to hearing from you via we continue with the remaining Core Curric- Health. For more information please visit the email or, if you have a webcam, please feel free ulum courses being offered on-site, online, and NYSTA website (Member’s Section). to “oovoo me” (www.oovoo.com). My oovoo on demand. This season’s courses are: username is “sabellamills1965.” NYSTA on YouTube and Facebook It will certainly be hard to follow the dedica- ■ Singer’s Developmental Repertoire You may have already seen the various tion and hard work offered by our outgoing ■ Vocal Health for Voice Professionals YouTube players featured on the NYSTA President and Board of Directors. But, using a ■ Comparative Pedagogy 2009 website. I hope you find them enjoyable and These courses will be offered as LIVE streaming lyric of the late and great Cy Coleman, I hope entertaining. Over the coming months I will to assure you all that “The Best Is Yet to webcasts, viewable from any computer with a also be offering a President’s Video Blog (Vlog) high speed internet connection, as well as in Come.” via YouTube, and sending special notices and (c u soon
OREN LATHROP BROWN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM * SINGER’SDevelopmental Repertoire November 1, 2008 Saturday, 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM 9:00 AM-1:00 PM The Male Classical Voice with Chris Arneson; 2:30 PM-6:30 PM The Female Classical Voice with Judith Nicosia November 2, 2008 Sunday, 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM 9:00 AM-1:00 PM Musical Theatre Repertoire with David Sabella-Mills; 2:30 PM-6:30 PM Musical Theatre Repertoire with Jeannette LoVetri Selecting appropriate repertoire for students can be a major challenge for teachers of singing. This course specifies criteria for musical, technical, interpretive, and stylistic demands that teachers can use to analyze a particular work’s appropriateness for students at various levels of development. Specific songs and arias will be recommended and studied. Teachers’ College, Columbia University, 120th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, NYC. CATHERINE MALFITANO MASTERCLASS andAnnual Holiday Party December 7, 2008 Sunday, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM The incomparable Catherine Malfitano, whose formidable vocal and dramatic talents are world renowned, will guide young professionals in operatic repertoire, followed by our usual holiday good cheer. Laurie Beecham Theater at the West Bank Café, 407 West 42nd Street, NYC (just west of 9th Avenue). Free to members and one guest, $25 non-members, $15 students with valid ID. Please Note there is limited seating for this event so reservations are required and will be given out on a first-come, first-serve basis. Members use the RSVP form located on the NYSTA website (Member’s Log In page). Non-members must purchase tickets on the NYSA website (Events page).
OREN LATHROP BROWN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM * VOCAL HEALTH FORVoice Professionals January 13-March 3, 2009, Tuesdays, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM In this course, students closely examine vocal health issues relevant to singers and teachers of singing. Vocal fold injury, including the mechanisms of vocal patholo- gies, their diagnosis and treatment, will be addressed. Common conditions such as nodules, polyps, edema, reflux, and hemorrhage will also be covered. The goal of the course is to enable teachers to advise students on vocal hygiene, to recognize the necessity of medical intervention, to be conversant with commonly used drugs for performers, and to be able to participate as part of the medical treatment team in the rehabilitation of the singing voice. Instructors: Dr. Peek Woo, Dr. Lucian Sulica, Dr. Anat Keider, Dr. Benjamin Asher, Dr. Linda Caroll Teachers’ College, Columbia University, 120th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, NYC. SIXTEEN BARClinic February 9, 2009 Monday, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Back by popular demand, twelve singers get to strut their stuff before a panel of industry experts who give candid and supportive advice often not offered in the audition setting. New York University, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Shorin Performance Space, 8th floor, NYC. Photo ID required. Free to members, $25 non-members, $15 students with valid ID. ACCESSINGThe Inner Divo/Diva April 19, 2009 Sunday, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Understanding the psychology of performance can aid a voice teacher to take a student to the next level. NLP Practitioner and Certified NGH Hypnotist Sarah Carson and NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, Certified NGH Hypnotist and Certified Clean Language Facilitator Shawn Carson will outline cutting edge techniques of peak performance psychology in the singing arena drawn from the disciplines of Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Psychology, NLP, EFT Hypnosis and Clean Language. Teachers’ College, Columbia University, Room TBA, 120th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, NYC. Photo ID required. Free to members, $25 non-members, $15 students with valid ID.
OREN LATHROP BROWN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM * COMPARATIVEPedagogy Weekend 2009 June 2009 Dates and Instructors TBA During this course, six master teachers will present teaching demonstrations after case histories of students have been discussed. Concrete links will be made between various teaching strategies and the scientific and medical information covered in other courses of the PDP program. Teachers’ College, Columbia University, 120th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, NYC.
* All PDP courses are $220 and can be registered and paid for online at www.nyst.org. One graduate credit per course is available from Westminster Choir College, for an additional $150. A form will be obtained at the class. The courses take place at Columbia University, Teachers’ College, 525 West 120th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, NYC. Check desk at entry for class location. For more information contact Janet Pranschke at [email protected] or www.nyst.org. 4
chamber music artist. Her chamber music, fes- on the NYSTA website. NYSTAOfficers tival and orchestral appearances have taken her Dr. Gill lives in Jersey City, with his wife throughout the US, Europe and South America. Kim, who is also an accomplished singer and David Sabella-Mills She has collaborated with such renowned artists voice teacher, and their newborn son Thomas. (President) has served as YoYo Ma, Ani Kavafian, Gerard Schwarz and They are in awe of the miracle of their son on the NYSTA Board of Kenneth Cooper. and look forward—daily—to his beautiful Directors since the 2002. Ms. Mongiardo’s diverse repertoire includes vocalizations. A member of many orchestral works such as Mahler’s Fourth committees, including Symphony, Berlioz’ Les nuits d’été and Strauss’s Rebecca Sharpe Event Programming, Brentano Lieder as well as premieres of pieces by (Secretary) has taught at Professional Develop- Seymour Barab and Wendy Chambers; she has James Madison High School ment Program, Finance, also been featured as the narrator in Walton’s in Brooklyn for the past ten and Membership, he has also served as the Façade and as the Devil in Stravinsky’s L’histoire years. Her program includes NYSTA website administrator since 2005. du soldat and in works by André Caplet and Beginning Chorus, Interme- He has taught at the Tisch School of the Arts Douglas Moore. She can be heard on the CD diate Chorus, and Concert at NYU, CAP21 Studio, Mannes College Prep- Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Musical Choir, as well as a Musical aratory Division, SUNY Purchase, and SUNY New Heritage Society). Ms. Mongiardo currently Theatre class. Rebecca is Paltz. He has been a guest teacher at Ann maintains a private studio in Manhattan. Her assistant director of the Reinking’s Broadway Theater Project in Tampa, students have been featured at Chautauqua Marching Band, and overall director of the and has conducted vocal masterclasses and Opera, Seattle Opera, Lake George Opera, Opera school’s musicals. Recent directing credits include musical theater workshops at the University of Delaware, and in chamber and orchestral productions of Grease, The Sound of Music, Las Vegas and California State at Fullerton. appearances throughout the United States. Bye, Bye Birdie, and Anything Goes. Mr. Sabella-Mills’ proudest achievements are Ms. Sharpe’s love for music began at a young his beautiful five-year-old daughter Iraina and Brian Gill (Treasurer) age when she was growing up in the Finger loving marriage to his husband Thomas (married is Clinical Assistant Lakes region of upstate New York. She decided to in Provincetown 2004). David and Thomas are Professor of Voice at New pursue this passion and moved to New York City also fostering a six-month-old baby boy whom York University, where he where she received a BA in music education from they hope to adopt, and they have two dogs: teaches applied voice, Wagner College. She has since received an MA Mollie and Dyson. Two dads, two kids, and two diction, and vocal from Hunter College in vocal performance, where dogs make for a busy household! When not pedagogy. Before coming she studied with Susan Gonzalez. Ms. Sharpe has parenting or teaching, David can be found in to NYU, he served on the also studied with NYSTA Board member and Past front of his computer working on something for voice faculties of Pace President Janet Pranschke, and currently studies NYSTA. And in the moments between all of this, University and Eastern with NYSTA President David Sabella-Mills. an occasional song or aria may cross his lips. Kentucky University. While working as a graduate Ms. Sharpe’s dedication to her teaching career Having starred on Broadway, opera and assistant at the University of Kentucky at Lexing- has not diminished her love for performing, and concert stages as a countertenor, Mr. Sabella- ton, he taught applied voice, diction, and she continues to seek opportunities in both opera Mills successfully reached all of his professional assisted with the vocal pedagogy program and musical theater throughout the New York goals by age 35. Since then he has turned his Dr. Gill has performed numerous operatic and City area. Her opera credits include The Crucible, attentions to raising a family and developing his musical theater roles, concerts, and recitals in the Eugene Onegin and The Medium. She recently studio. With daughter Iraina turning five, 2008 United States and Europe. His performances performed in the Brooklyn Theatre Arts Project was to be his return to stage life. In March, include tenor roles in La bohème, The Consul, production of Jesus Christ Superstar. however, ACS unexpectedly placed a six-day- Street Scene, Hansel and Gretel, Amahl and the Although Ms. Sharpe’s current professional old baby boy in the Sabella-Mills home. This Night Visitors, Die Zauberflöte, Giannini’s Beauty focus is on choral groups, she loves working with event (combined with his new post as NYSTA and the Beast, Anything Goes and South Pacific. individual singers and in the future she hopes to President) will keep Mr. Sabella-Mills busy for a In France, Dr. Gill performed in the 7ème Fes- run her own studio. She anticipates that NYSTA’s few more years. After that, it’s anybody’s guess. tivale Nationale de Rimes et Accords as tenor workshops will help solidify her skills as an soloist and guest recitalist. He performed in effective private teacher. A new member of Josephine Mongiardo many other concerts and recitals, including a NYSTA and its Board of Directors, she is excited (Vice President) has served celebration of Armistice Day at Notre Dame to be joining such a talented and enthusiastic on the Board of NYSTA for Cathedral. He also played bass guitar and sang group of singers and teachers. 15 years and for the past in Disney’s Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Ms. Sharpe lives in the Park Slope section of four years (2004–2008) Paris, where he performed with the Grammy- Brooklyn. This summer she participated in a as President and previously nominated country band, The Moody Brothers. Shakespeare Fellows program where she acted, as Vice President, Secretary, Recently, Dr. Gill was a featured soloist in a series directed, and developed new skills in teaching and Registrar. She has of concerts celebrating the life and music of Shakespeare to high school students. In her free been the chair of the Pro- Rosemary Clooney with the Kentucky Jazz time, she enjoys Broadway shows, trying out the gram and Publicity committees and has been an Repertory Orchestra and the Lexington great restaurants New York City has to offer, active participant in the Professional Develop- Philharmonic. and spending time with her supportive boyfriend, ment Program, both as a student and committee Dr. Gill received his BM degree from the family, and friends. member. Along with Nancy Adams, she devel- University of North Carolina at Charlotte, his oped an outreach program for the public schools MM degree from the University of Colorado at Lisa Hogan (Registrar) of District 3 in Manhattan, which they adminis- Boulder, his DMA degree from the University of is currently Adjunct tered jointly for four years. Kentucky at Lexington, and the Certificate in Professor of Voice at the In her career as a professional singer, she has Vocology from the University of Iowa. He is an John J. Cali School of been widely acclaimed for her “extraordinary active member of NATS and the College Music Music at Montclair State voice” and “brilliant ornamentation.” Her credits Society. His students perform throughout the US University, the City include the New York stage premieres of several and abroad, including the Metropolitan Opera, University of New York— eighteenth-century operas and oratorios, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Chicago La Guardia Community including Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Esther, and Lyric Opera, English National Opera, on and off College, and an associate Susanna, Lully’s Acis et Galatée, and virtuosic Broadway, and with regional companies and voice instructor for the David Sabella-Mills pieces by Antonio Vivaldi as part of the Vivaldi’s young artist apprentice programs. Studios and Patrick Wickham’s Performers Venice series at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. A member of NYSTA and NYSTA Board of Career Center. An accomplished actress, Ms. Mongiardo has Directors since 2005, Dr. Gill serves as Treasurer Born in Albuquerque and raised in upstate commanded attention in such roles as Lucia, and on the Internet Technology committee. New York, Lisa earned an AB (Bachelor of Arts) Violetta and Rosina, and speaks four languages. His Voice Science Masterclass, presented in in English from Cornell University. She came to Ms. Mongiardo is a renowned recitalist and December 2007, is available as a video archive New York City to pursue a career in the music 5 industry. She has won numerous songwriting South Carolina, where she continues to apply her position, he held part-time teaching appoint- awards and performed extensively in the Tri-State unique approach to the development of vocal ments at Northeastern University, Central area. She has performed in concerts sponsored technique that she has created and perfected Connecticut State University, the Hartt School, by the National Academy of Recording Arts & over the years (involving both scientific and and the New England Conservatory. Sciences (NARAS), the Songwriters Guild, ASCAP, intuitive methodology). She also serves on the Originally from Pennsylvania, Dr. Hoch earned and the New York Music Festival, among others. voice faculty of Hunter College. Many of her a BM degree, summa cum laude, from Ithaca In 2000, she released an independent CD, The students have established successful professional College with a triple major in voice performance, Other Way, and was selected for inclusion on a careers in both the USA and Europe. music education, and music theory; an MM CD featuring top New York City songwriters degree from the Hartt School with a double entitled The East Side of Fascination. In 2006 she Meg Bussert is in her major in vocal performance and music history; earned an MA in music composition from the eighth year on the faculty of and a DMA degree from the New England Aaron Copland School of Music. Her classical NYU Steinhardt’s program in Conservatory in vocal performance. He is an compositions have been performed at the vocal performance teaching alumnus of the 2006 NATS Intern Program at New England Conservatory and the American acting and musical theatre the University of Missouri-Kansas City and com- Composers Alliance Festival at Symphony Space studies. Prior to this position, pleted three levels of certification in Somatic in New York. She continues to write both Ms. Bussert had a thriving Voicework™—The LoVetri Method at Shen- classical and contemporary material as well as career on and off Broadway andoah University. He received the NATS Vocal perform as a vocalist. playing many of the classic Pedagogy Award in 2007. Through her affiliation with David Sabella- roles in musical theatre. She Although now devoted full-time to his Mills, Lisa joined NYSTA in 2002 and began has been honored with a Tony nomination and a teaching, Dr. Hoch continues to perform in training in vocal pedagogy through the Profes- Theatre World Award. a variety of settings as a recitalist, oratorio singer, sional Development Program. Last year she Ms. Bussert holds a BS in drama studies professional chorister, and in operatic and served on the Board of Directors as Event Pro- from SUNY Purchase and an MAT in English musical theatre roles. His writings have been gramming Chair, and is delighted to assume the and secondary education from Manhattanville published by Salem Press and Pomegranate office of Registrar. Lisa is interested in technology College. She earned a certificate in acting Communications. and how NYSTA can assist in the education of pedagogy from the Actors’ Center in New York, Dr. Hoch is delighted to be joining the 2008– voice teachers all over the world. and is certified in Somatic Voicework™—The 2011 NYSTA Board of Directors. In addition to Lisa lives in New Jersey with her husband LoVetri Method. She is presently training with the his activities as a Board member, he will also be David and their three felines: Betty, Ned and Michael Chekhov Association and applying these serving as the Editor-in-Chief of VOICEPrints and Cooper. In addition to voice teaching, perform- techniques to vocalists who are investigating the on the Professional Development Program and ing, and writing, Lisa loves gardening. storytelling power of repertoire. She presents Internet Technology committees. He is particularly workshops and lecture/performance seminars at excited about NYSTA’s innovations in technology professional conferences, musical theatre, and and views the online and on demand presence classical voice programs internationally. She is a of NYSTA’s Professional Development Program as NYSTABoard of Directors founding member of the Music Theatre NYSTA’s opportunity to make a major impact on Educators Alliance, serving on the executive the international voice teaching community. As a committee for the past four years. resident of the Southeastern United States, Dr. Nancy Adams is a Ms. Bussert’s acting career began on Broad- Hoch hopes to serve as an advocate for NYSTA’s Fulbright Scholar who way in the chorus of Irene. She understudied in expansion, visibility, and viability as an important studied at the Hochschule several shows and soon moved into leading roles international organization for singing teachers. für Musik in Cologne. She of her own. Broadway revivals include roles in As devoted member of both NYSTA and NATS, received her MM degree Brigadoon, Camelot, The Music Man, The Firefly, he looks forward to finding opportunities for in vocal performance from The New Moon, and Damn Yankees. She can be collaboration and the fostering of more synergy Indiana University and seen on DVD in Acorn Media’s recently release of between the two organizations. her BM degree from the Camelot. Her discography includes Teddy and Dr. Hoch lives in Rome, Georgia with his wife University of Georgia. Her Alice (on an Essay recording: Sousa for Orchestra) Theresa and one-year-old daughter Hannah. They teachers have included Oren Brown, David and the Kopit/Yeston Phantom. are eagerly awaiting the birth of their second Adams, Marinka Gurewich, and Judith Oas. Ms. Bussert is pleased to be joining the daughter Sofie, expected in September 2008. In Nancy Adams has served NYSTA as Vice Board of Directors for NYSTA during this exciting addition to teaching and spending time with his President and has been on the Board of Directors moment for professionals concerned with the family, he also enjoys performing, reading, for the past 15 years. She has presented a variety training and maintaining of the healthy voice. writing, traveling, and watching films. of masterclasses, including one entitled “A Team NYSTA members have a responsibility not only Approach to Vocal Instruction,” sponsored by to their students but to the industry. Within this Paula Liscio is currently NYSTA in 2000 at the Grabscheid Center at challenge is the opportunity to share knowledge, a member of the New York Mount Sinai Hospital. This forum attracted over both practical and scientific, with those who hire City Opera Chorus, where 250 voice professionals from all over the USA, and write for the commercial voice. Her 2008 she has performed both as including teachers of singing, voice scientists, NYSTA Masterclass can be viewed on the NYSTA chorister and soloist. She speech pathologists and physicians. video archive. has also performed with Mrs. Adams has adjudicated many vocal Ms. Bussert is still performing when pro- the Metropolitan Opera, as competitions, including the Center for Con- ductions can be worked around her teaching soloist at Avery Fisher Hall, temporary Opera’s International Opera Singing and presenting schedule. She lives just outside of in the Christmas and Easter Competition. In 2004, she was the Chair of New York City with her teenage son, dog, and Spectaculars at Radio City Music Hall, with the inaugural season of the David Adams Voice her occasionally visiting adult daughter. various regional opera companies, and as a Competition, which was established to honor her cabaret performer. late husband and former NYSTA President. Matthew Hoch is Originally from New York, Ms. Liscio earned a In conjunction with the NYSTA Song Competition Assistant Professor of BM degree in vocal performance from Indiana Committee, Mrs. Adams founded and adminis- Music at Shorter College, University. She interrupted her MM degree tered a Career Encouragement Grant Program for where he teaches a full studies there to perform in Italy‘s Opera Barga exceptionally promising young artists. She has studio of voice perfor- Festival under the direction of renowned basso been active for many years as a teacher liaison mance, musical theatre, buffo Italo Tajo. She then moved to New York to with opera managers, theatrical agents, artistic and music education continue performance studies under Frank Cor- directors of regional opera houses, and majors. Before coming to saro, Thaddeus Mottyka, Richard Getke and conductors of choral groups and orchestral Shorter College, he was Edwin MacArthur. She received an Artist ensembles. Assistant Professor of Diploma, cum laude, for her studies in German Nancy Adams currently maintains active Music at the University of Wisconsin-Barron Lied at the Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, private studios in both New York and Charleston, County in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Prior to that where she studied under Hans Hotter, Ernst 6
Haefliger, and Eli Ameling. Hospitality. She has enjoyed all of the courses in the Chautauqua Opera, Des Moines Metro Although still actively performing, Ms. Liscio the core curriculum of the Professional Develop- Opera, Glimmerglass Opera Theatre and most has maintained a private voice studio in Manhat- ment Program. This season she is looking notably, five consecutive seasons with the Asolo tan for the past 25 years, where she works with forward to working with new Editor-in-Chief Opera (now Sarasota Opera). students of all levels and professional standing. Matthew Hoch as an Associate Editor for As winner of the Artist Management Inter- She enjoys giving masterclasses, adjudicating VOICEPrints. national Music Competition, she was presented at vocal competitions, and contributing to in a Weill Recital Hall concert debut, and as VOICEPrints. Sally Morgan is an expert winner of the Liederkranz Foundation Vocal Ms. Liscio will co-chair the NYSTA Event vocal trainer, actress, director, Competition, she made her Carnegie Hall debut. Programming committee with Vice President and author. She helps She has won many other awards and grants, Josephine Mongiardo and will also head the performers sing as simply including the Sullivan Foundation and the Minna Hospitality committee. She is excited about the and naturally as they speak Kaufmann Ruud Distinguished Performance expanding scope of NYSTA and its presence in and coaches business Award and gained national recognition as a the world community through the development professionals to speak up Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and growth of the NYSTA’s technological (and win!). She is the finalist and prize winner in the Munich Inter- capabilities. author of Morganix Me- national Vocal Competition. Ms. Liscio lives in New York City in close thodTM: Your Key to Vocal Ms. Pranschke earned a BM degree from proximity to her extended family: her brother, Excellence, which has recently been adopted as a Ithaca College Conservatory of Music and sister, nieces, nephew, and grandnieces. When required text at the University of Texas at Austin. pursued graduate study at the Juilliard School, not singing, she can be found in her kitchen Other books include 215 Secrets to Help You Mannes College, Stony Brook University, the (baking her famous biscotti) or planning dinner Speak Like a Pro. She is also the award-winning French Institute and the New School. She is on parties and festivities for friends and family. She composer of a children’s music CD entitled the voice faculty of Wagner College and main- is an avid reader of mystery novels and anything Grammy’s Cookie Jar. tains a private teaching studio on Staten Island. about cooking or Italy. She is passionate about An innovator in the field of vocal training for Ms. Pranschke has been serving NYSTA for the New York theater scene, and—when not the past 25 years—from inside the prestigious over 22 years. She began as Hospitality Chair planning another trip to Tuscany—loves going Actors Studio Drama School in New York City to and soon joined the Board of Directors, where to the movies or for long walks in Riverside Park. Southern Brazil—Ms. Morgan has contributed to she served as President from 1999-2002. It was the accessibility of the vocal arts to all who seek during her presidency that the Professional Lori McCann has just her help: actors, singers, business professionals, Development Program was formed in 2000. finished her first year as lawyers and politicians. Sally is honored to be a Assistant Professor of Voice member of the 2008–2011 Board of Directors. Lisa Rochelle has at the John J. Cali School During her tenure, she hopes to bring her been teaching vocal and of Music at Montclair research to NYSTA on a variety of topics, such as performance technique at State University. There, entrepreneurship, marketing tools, inspiration her New York studio and she teaches the diction and business partnerships, and “perfect per- as faculty member of sequence and applied formance practices.” She also hopes to assist conservatory and college voice to undergraduate NYSTA with its expansion efforts to bring new theatre programs since and graduate students majoring in vocal voice teachers from other areas of the country 1993. A masterclass performance, musical theatre and music and world. In addition to teaching, writing and instructor in audition and education. Prior to teaching at Montclair State, composing, Ms. Morgan is the grandmother of performance technique, she taught at both Columbia University five beautiful, intelligent and sweet children: her students have (Teachers’ College), and the Steinhardt School of Shaela (9), Jonathan (8), Kenna (7), Kirsten (6), appeared in over 50 Broadway shows and New York University. Before those appointments, and Quinn (5). Currently a resident of Easton, PA, national tours, in Radio City Music Hall, off Dr. McCann was Assistant Professor of Voice at Sally is anxious to sell her house and move back Broadway, in feature and animated films, on Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She to Manhattan. If anyone would like to buy her television, in voiceovers, on European tours, and spends summers teaching at the American house, please contact her! in regional theatres throughout the United States. Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, In addition to her twenty years of training in and the New York Summer Music Festival. Janet Pranschke has vocal pedagogy and vocology, her 25-year Originally from Middleton, Wisconsin, Dr. been teaching people to performance career also adds significantly McCann earned her BM in vocal performance sing for 23 years. Her to her work as a teacher of singing. She has from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and students range in age from performed leading roles on and off Broadway, an MA in applied voice from San Diego State seven to 75 years of age. on national tours, in regional theatres, and on University. She attended the University of Cincin- They include professionals television and commercials. nati College-Conservatory of Music, where she singing on Broadway and Ms. Rochelle often works in collaboration earned the Artist Diploma in opera and a DMA at Lincoln Center, with medical doctors and voice pathologists in in vocal performance and opera directing. amateurs singing in local the re-training of injured and problematic voices. A lyric soprano, Dr. McCann enjoyed a career choral groups, theater The comprehensive pedagogical training with in Europe based primarily in Berlin. While there, workshops, and pageants, New York mentor and pioneer vocologist Ron she maintained an active voice studio and and those who sing just for fun. Clairmont throughout the 1980s and 1990s adjudicated the International Johann Sebastian Ms. Pranschke has spent the last eight years provided the foundation for her interest and Bach Competition in Leipzig. She was a National studying the science of the singing voice to further study in vocal physiology and rehabilita- Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National better understand how the mechanism works tion. Recent work include the Grabscheid Voice Council Auditions and has performed opera, in order to best serve her students. NYSTA’s Center Vocology Internship under the direct oratorio, and recital literature throughout the Distinguished Voice Professional Certificate was supervision of Linda Carroll, PhD-SLP and Peak United States. awarded to her for completing the five-course Woo, MD, and an internship and vocology Dr. McCann is an active member of both PDP curriculum. She also completed a six-week training with Anat Keidar, PhD-SLP. she is certified NYSTA and NATS. She is current Vice President internship with Dr. Peak Woo at the Grabscheid in all three levels of Somatic Voicework™—The of NATS-NYC and has been on the Board of Voice Center at Mt. Sinai Hospital and team- LoVetri Method and holds a BA in vocal Directors for both NYSTA and NATS-NYC since teaches with speech therapists to rehabilitate pedagogy and musical theatre performance. 2001. She was instrumental in founding the first injured voices. Ms. Rochelle has served on many voice NATS-NYC student auditions. With NYSTA she A lyric soprano, she made her operatic debut faculties, including Marymount Manhattan has served as Registrar and on many committees, with the Santa Fe Opera as a member of that College, the O’Neill Theatre Center National including Event Programming, Professional company’s apprentice program and has since Theatre Institute, the Chautauqua School for Development Program, Composers Concert, sung over 35 leading roles with opera com- Special Studies, the Institute for the Alexander Constitution Revision, Symposium Planning, and panies throughout the United States, including Technique, and the Helen Hayes Performing Arts 7
Center. She has presented masterclasses and of human vocal mechanics that enabled him to highly-effective, and expandable synthesis of workshops at the Neighborhood Playhouse, successfully manipulate his own instrument. voice physiology, bel canto technique, structural Brigham Young University, NYU, and the Chapin Proving that persistence (and not talent) is the integration, auditory feedback, and functional School. Ms. Rochelle also teaches musical theatre key to success, his obsession led him to eventual visualization techniques. Combining information audition classes, seminars on healthy belting, ensemble and principal cover roles at the New from over 90 voice teachers, therapists, doctors, cold-reading workshops, summer and winter City Opera, two-time NATS finalist status, district and other practitioners, Vocal Integration™ acting intensives, and holds industry audition finals in the Metropolitan Opera National Council represents one of the most comprehensive and panels for professionals and professional-level Auditions, and two Broadway tours by the age of unified methods for training the human voice students. 24. Specializing in popular opera and crossover currently available. Fall 2008 marks the long- She will serve as Associate Editor of a new repertoire, he has been engaged all over the awaited public release of Vocal Integration™ Vocal Health Column in the upcoming issues of country in rock concerts, operas, musicals, and training to voice teachers. VOICEPrints. She is a member of the newly on the Cunard Queen Mary 2. Mr. Wickham is the founder and creative established team of Voice Care Professionals of Mr. Wickham is a pioneer in successfully director of Wickham Vocal Studios (with a roster Westchester. A newcomer to the lush hills of combining the fields of voice technique, of over 150 students and over 1000 alumni), with Northern Westchester, she divides her time structural integration, and vocal physiology. A studios in New York, Atlanta, and Southern Pines, between working at her New York studio and voice specialist for many celebrity clients, he has North Carolina. The Los Angeles studio is slated enjoying the blissful quietude of her country been featured on Inside Edition, VH1, ESPN, to officially open in January of 2009. home with her tenor husband. and interviewed in Time Out, The New Yorker, Mr. Wickham looks forward to utilizing his Backstage, and The Village Voice. His students entrepreneurial and business skills in helping Still in the early stages include professional singers from all over the NYSTA expand to new markets. He currently lives of his career, Patrick world who have appeared on and off Broadway in Greenwich Village, where he is eagerly Michael Wickham in over 80 shows, as well as principal performers awaiting the arrival of his thirteen-year-old has already achieved con- at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, daughter (who will reside with him in 2009). A siderable success as a Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, published composer, Mr. Wickham also enjoys teacher of singing. Tone Los Angeles Opera and others. His students cooking, traveling, and movies. deaf and bereft of almost have been signed by such record labels as Jive, any vocal skill since age Atlantic, Universal, Virgin, So So Def, and Sony. thirteen, Mr. Wickham Mr. Wickham is best known as the inventor began an intense study of the Vocal Integration™ Method: an innovative,
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Dear VOICEPrints Readers, to get online, join NYSTA, watch a masterclass, It is an honor to have been named the new and take a class with Dr. Scott McCoy (to name Editor-in-Chief of VOICEPrints. And, I have big only a few possible activities). And, convince your shoes to fill. I have great respect for the out- friends to do the same. Membership in NYSTA standing work of my predecessor, Daniel James is no longer limited by distance, time, or space— Shigo. Over the course of his twenty issues since how exciting! September of 2003 (all of which can be viewed other “firsts”: VOICEPrints issues will be now I would like to thank Josephine Mongiardo on our online archive), he set a very high delivered online (in PDF format) and will also be and David Sabella-Mills, who jointly appointed standard for VOICEPrints scholarship. Under his in color! Online delivery will not only save me to this position as they passed their own editorship, some of the most hallowed names in NYSTA thousands of dollars in printing, postage, presidential baton. I would also like to thank our field have contributed quality articles of great and delivery costs, but the new e-format of our Brian Gill, Lori McCann, and Lisa Rochelle, who pedagogical and historical interest. In addition to journal also gives VOICEPrints the capability of will serve as my committee of Associate Editors. his formidable competence, Daniel is also a warm instantaneously reaching thousands of readers Each with their own respective areas of expertise, and gracious spirit who has been very generous across the globe. (A limited number of hard- they will bring perspectives, energy, and wisdom with his time and comments when “passing the copies of VOICEPrints will still be available from various aspects of the voice teaching baton” to me over the course of the past several upon request.) profession. And, most important, I would like months. It is my goal to maintain the high The new era of NYSTA also begins with a to thank the wonderful John Ostendorf, who standard that he has established. new season. Please familiarize yourself with the remains on the VOICEPrints staff as designer and This issue of VOICEPrints also marks the 2008–2009 calendar, which includes both publisher. John will ensure that the VOICEPrints beginning of a new era in other ways. In addition Featured Events and three courses from the baton is seamlessly passed into a new era— to a new Editor-in-Chief, there are also new Oren Lathrop Brown Professional Development looking great! Officers and a new Board of Directors who will Program. Through internet technology, NYSTA Please do not hesitate to contact me with any lead NYSTA through the year 2011. In lieu of members from all over the globe can participate thoughts you may have about VOICEPrints. I look feature articles, we wanted to devote this issue in these offerings from the comfort of their home forward to serving you during this exciting time to introducing them to you. And their impressive computer. in NYSTA’s history. biographies only tell half the story—these are So far, 30 singing teachers have earned the talented and dedicated individuals who will Distinguished Voice Professional Certificate from work hard to bring NYSTA to international NYSTA. With online and on-demand options for Sincerely, prominence. Please take the time to get to know all PDP classes, we hope to eventually award them, and feel free to contact them (via the hundreds of certificates to singing teachers from NYSTA website) with any ideas you may have all over the world. Dr. Matthew Hoch for NYSTA’s future. In other words, if you’re reading VOICEPrints Editor-in-Chief, VOICEPrints This issue also marks the beginning of two right now and living in Eastern Europe, feel free [email protected] VOICEPrints JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK SINGING TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2008 NYSTA, c/o Mr. David Sabella-Mills 360 West 34th Street, Townhouse #3 New York, NY 10001 www.NYST.org
lished, two-volume Vocal Health and Pedagogy, Paul Houghtaling NYSTANews Second Edition (Plural, 2006), reviewed by Jo- has just completed his first sephine Mongiardo in last season’s VOICEPrints. year as Assistant Professor NYSTA would like to Ms. LoVetri is perhaps the only singing of Voice and Director of offer its congratulations to teacher on the faculty at a major medical Opera Theatre at the Jeannette LoVetri for school. And, for the past three years, she has University of Alabama. her recent appointment also been the only singing teacher on the more UA Opera Theatre is a to the teaching faculty than 40-person Scientific Advisory Board of the comprehensive training of the Drexel University Voice Foundation. program consisting of College of Medicine. Ms. Jeannette LoVetri has served as NYSTA classes in movement LoVetri will hold the title of President (1987–1990) and is a faculty member (dance, mime, improvisation), stage combat, Instructor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck of the biennial Vocal Repertoire from a make-up, diction, and audition techniques, as Surgery, effective immediately. Developmental Perspective course in the Oren well as productions of scenes programs and Ms. LoVetri was appointed by and will be Lathrop Brown Professional Development full productions. serving at the discretion of Robert Thayer Program. In addition to her thriving New York This summer, several of Paul’s students Sataloff, MD, DMA, FACS, Head of the Depart- studio, she is also on the faculty of Shenan- worked in opera apprentice programs and ment and Chair and Founder of The Voice doah University, where she offers summer workshops around the country and abroad, while Foundation in Philadelphia. Dr. Sataloff is well- certification courses in her CCM pedagogical Paul directed Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers known to the vocal health community through methodology: Somatic Voicework™—The for the Young Artists Program of Cedar Rapids his many writings, including the recently pub- LoVetri Method. Opera Theatre.
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