Education: Singing Teachers & Musical Audition Coaches
Seattle
Celeste Axelson
(Madronna)
(206) 851-2628
Email: [email protected]
Celeste works with all levels of singers on musical theatre, classical vocal technique, 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. She has also been a church musician, choir director, and director of musical theatre. A recording artist herself, she also teaches diction for all the opera languages.
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Brian Higham (AEA, SAG, AFTRA)
(Mt. Baker)
(206) 322-0948
E-mail: [email protected]
A veteran with 25 years of teaching, Brian Higham is an actor/singer and an active music director in the Seattle Area. He is also a musical theatre coach and voice instructor.
Davida Kagen
(206) 782-7718
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.davidakagenvoice.com
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 has taught singing at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, and in the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington.
Kim Maquire Voice Studio
(206)-948-1233
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.voicestudy.org
Kim has been teaching private voice in the Kirkland area for over 25 years. Trained in N.Y., she has extensive experience as a performer, having performed at the Houston Grand Opera, The 5th Ave Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Village Theatre and many 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 and Intiman among others.
Ellen McLain (AEA, SAG-AFTRA, AGMA; MM)
(Magnolia)
206-484-6405
Email: [email protected]
Website: Ellenmclain.net
A voice teacher and audition coach, McLain has a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. A veteran of 30 years, she has performed in musical theatre and opera on Broadway, throughout the US and in Europe. Voice lessons and audition coaching $50 per hour.
Marianne Weltman (MS)
(Ravenna)
(206) 524-5195
E-mail: [email protected]
A singing coach, Marianne Weltmann has an MS from the Julliard School of Music and has performed in New York and Europe. Her students include working professionals performing in opera, theatre, and concerts both locally and nationwide. A native speaker of German, who has also lived in Italy, she works on diction for opera singers and is a translator. She has taught singing for over 20 years.
Jordan Wentworth
(646) 285-7926
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.voicelessonseattle.com
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 students perform in the Met Opera children’s chorus, on Broadway in Little Women, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, and 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. Wentworh has 10 years full-time teaching experience and several more years of part-time teaching experience. He has performed 38 opera roles in New York and beyond.
Eastside
Kim Maquire Voice Studio
Kirkland
(206)-948-1233
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.voicestudy.org
Kim has been teaching private voice in the Kirkland area for over 25 years. Trained in N.Y., she has extensive experience as a performer, having performed at the Houston Grand Opera, The 5th Ave Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Village Theatre and many 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 and Intiman among others.
Jeffrey Moidel
(Snohomish)
(206) 434-6300
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: jeffreymoidel.com
A concert pianist and composer as well as singing teacher, Jeffry Moidel coaches students in vocal technique, diction, resonance, breathing, alignment and musical auditioning. Jeffrey has taught for 13 years at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
Alyce Rogers
(425) 646-9550
Email: [email protected]
A veteran of 30 years of touring with operas and 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 Gilbert and Sullivan company) here in the United State. 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.
Penelope Vrachopoulos (PhD)
(425) 454-1906
Penelope Vrachopoulos teaches 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.
Kitsap Penninsula
Nancy Bos
(425) 633-5586
Email: [email protected]
Website: NancyBos.net
Nancy has been performing as a professional singer in musical theatre and in rock banks since the early 1990’s; and has been teaching since 1995. Her specialties are rock music, folk music, musical theatre and intermediate classical music. She is available for onsite coaching throughout Puget Sound and teaches online lessons.
Websites
Greater Seattle Choral Consortium
https://seattlesings.org/gscc/
Founded in 2010, the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium (GSCC) brings together over 80 of the Seattle area’s premiere choral arts organizations in the spirit of cooperation and collegiality. Together the members of the Consortium work to share resources, offer advice, and support each other’s efforts to bring choral music to singers and audiences throughout the greater Seattle region.
GSCC also lists choral events and has a “find a choir for you” app.