EDUCATION: Singing Teachers & Musical Audition Coaches
Seattle
Celeste Axelson (206) 851-2628
Celeste works with all levels of singers: on classical vocal technique, musical theatre, folk, rock, pop, jazz and music theory. Trained at the Vancouver annex of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada in piano and voice, she has taught voice for 9 years and piano for 18. In addition, she has been a church musician and directs both musical theatre and choirs. A recording artist herself, she also teaches diction for all the opera in all languages. Laurelhurst
E-mail Celestesoprano@comcast.net
Emilie Berne (206) 784-8008
Voice instruction and song styling techniques for jazz, musical theatre, cabaret, auditioning and performance. Berne is a pianist, composer-arranger, voice teacher and music director with over 30 years of professional experience in Seattle and San Francisco. Her students perform regionally and internationally on mainstage and cruise ships, in national touring companies and cabarets. Career guidance, practice tapes and resource library are available. Beginners to professional. Ballard.
Barbara Coffin (206) 324-7002
(Equity, SAG, AFTRA)
The fundamentals of singing, vocal technique and performance coaching. Beginners to advanced. A veteran Seattle performer, Coffin has performed at the Fifth Ave Musical Theatre, many opera companies, on cruise ships and in nightclubs. Private lessons, Capitol Hill
Brian Higham (206) 322-0948
(Equity, SAG, AFTRA)
A veteran of 25 years of teaching, Brian Higham is an actor/singer and is an active music director in the Seattle Area. He is a musical theatre coach and voice instructor. Mt. Baker
E-mail: Brian-Higham@hotmail.com
Davida Kagen (206) 782-7718
With 30 years teaching experience under her belt, Kagen works on both vocal development and audition coaching. An opera performer, who has toured Europe and the US, Kagen taught singing at Western Washington University in Bellingham, and has taught in the PATP program at the UW and at Cornish.
E-mail dkagen@connectexpress.com
Jacinta Koreski (206) 782-5177
On the voice faculty of Seattle Pacific University “Jackie” has an MM in both vocal pedagogy and vocal performance. She has performed throughout the US and Europe in Opera, Musical Theatre and oratoria recital. Her students include working professionals as well as intermediate and beginning students. Greenwood.
Kim Maquire Voice Studio kimmaguire@hotmail.com
Kim has been teaching private voice in the Seattle area for over 16 years and loves it! She has extensive experience as a performer having been an actor/singer for over 30 years. She has been privileged to play on such stages as The 5th Avenue Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Minneapolis Children's Theatre and Village Theatre among others. She is a lyric/coloratura trained in both classical and musical theatre techniques.
Her students have performed mainstage roles at The 5th Ave Theatre, The Village Theatre, Intiman Theatre, The Attic Theatre, Seattle MusicalTheatre, Studio East, and CORE Theatrics among others.
(206)-948-1233
Ellen McLain (206) 282-1531
( Equity, SAG, AFTRA, AGMA)
Voice teacher and audition coach, McLain has an MM from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. A veteran of 30 years, she has performed on Broadway, throughout the country and in Europe, both in musical theatre and opera. Magnolia.
Jeffrey Moidel (206) 720-9958
A concert pianist and composer, as well as singing teacher, Jeffry Moidel works on vocal technique, and all elements of coaching: diction, resonance, breathing, alignment as well as musical audition coaching. Jeffrey has taught for 13 years at Cornish. Leschi
E-mail: Jmoidel@mac.com
Marianne Weltman (206) 524-5195
Singing coach, Weltmann has an MS from the Julliard School of Music, and has performed in New York and Europe. Her students include working professionals in opera, theatre and concerts locally and nationwide. She has taught singing for over 20 years. Ravenna
E-mail: higheffer@comcast.net
Web: Seattlesinginglady.com
Jordan Wentworth (646) 285-7926
Jordan is an active member of NYSTA and has studied anatomy and physiology as well as the latest developments in neurology and teaching practices. Jordan has had five singers in the Met Opera children’s chorus, students on Broadway in Little Women, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, The Wedding Singer, in the Broadway tour of Aida, and in countless off-Broadway productions. He was also selected to coach an American Idol contestant on The Morning Show. He has ten years full-time teaching experience and several more years of part-time teaching experience. Jordan has performed 38 opera roles in New York and beyond.
Website: http://voicelessonseattle.com
Email: jcwentworth@gmail.com
Ann Evans Zavada ( 206) 306-0209
(Equity)
Voice coaching, technique and audition preparation. She specializes in a healthy “Broadway Belt” style. With 25 years of professional experience in theatres and cabarets across the country, Zavada has performed locally at the Seattle Children’s Theatre, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, Civic Light Opera, The Group Theatre and Cabaret Productions. Her students have performed with Civic Light Opera, Village Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Opera and leads on national tours of Broadway shows. Beginners through advanced. North Seattle
E-mail: annevans@hotmail.com
Eastside
Nancy Bos (425) 633-5586
Nancy has been performing as a professional singer for 22 years in Musical Theatre,Rock banks and teaching for 11 years. Her specialties are rock, folk, musical theatre and beginning and intermediate classical.
Alyce Rogers (425) 646-9550
A veteran of 30 years of touring with opera, symphonies and as a recitalist, Ms. Rogers is currently a soloist with the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society. In addition, she toured with D’oyle Carte ( the original G& S company) here in the United State. Having trained at the New England Conservatory of Music, Ms. Rogers taught for 25 years at Portland State University, and specializes in vocal techniques and diction for singers in all the European languages. She teaches all styles from Gospel, to Classical to Musical Theatre.
E-mail: alyce.rogers@comcast.net
Penelope Vrachopoulos (425) 454-1906
Voice interpretation for actors and singers. Vrachopoulos, an actor/singer and director, has a Ph.D. in Music from Stanford University and has been teaching singing for 35 years. She is also Artistic Director of Eastside Lyric Theatre, a Gilbert and Sullivan company.