CENTER STAGE STUDIO
For
PERFORMING ARTS
107 Merchant Street
Audubon, NJ 08106
ph: 856-546-7600
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Voice Lessons:
Students will learn and explore the voice's many capabilities and work to discover your own voice's natural beauty. Vocal training will include five principle concepts: posture, respiration, phonation, resonance, and registration. Warm-ups, vocalises, repertoire and an understanding of human anatomy will facilitate comprehension and coordination of these basic concepts.
Classical training provides a solid foundation for vocal production. It is the oldest, most researched and healthiest method of singing, and is the most adaptable. Classical instruction teaches the application of basic singing principles that can be adopted into many genres, such as musical theater, jazz and popular music. Classical training can also help ensure the longevity and overall health of the voice. Lauren will teach students of all ages and levels.
Piano Lessons:
Lauren teaches all beginner to intermediate level piano students, beginning at the age of 5. Methods books will be used to teach basic piano skills, music theory, technique and performance pieces.
Fees:
Lauren Eleanor Athey, soprano, is a prominent voice teacher in the Southern New Jersey region. She teaches private voice instruction and music courses at the college level. Lauren is the voice teacher of 25 select vocal students at Salem County’s Vocational Music Academy in Pennsville high school. Lauren has students that have successfully gone on to music and musical theater programs at Westminster Choir College, Temple University and the prestigious Juilliard.
As a performer, Lauren has sung oratorios and concert opera with orchestra. She has also portrayed roles with opera companies in Philadelphia and Westminster Opera Theater under the direction of Daniel Beckwith and Marc Verzatt.
Lauren lived in Florence, Italy during the summers of 2005-2009, singing and studying the Italian language. Lauren sang with New York Opera Studio at Vassar College, coaching with Nico Castel. She sang with the Florence Voice Seminar in Italy for two seasons and at Rising Star Singers in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Lauren has participated in opera scenes as Manon (Manon), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Annina (The St. of Bleeker Street), Alexandra (Regina), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Laurie (The Tenderland), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Marie (La Fille du Regiment) and Yum Yum (The Mikado). She has placed in Boston, Philadelphia and NJ vocal competitions.
In 2008, Lauren graduated with a master of music degrees in voice performance and pedagogy from Westminster Choir College, where she won a graduate music scholarship. She is currently a student of Margaret Cusack. Lauren has coached with Dalton Baldwin, J.J. Penna, Marco Balderi, José Melendez, Daniel Beckwith and Akiko Hosaki. Lauren sang in Handel’s Messiah under Richard Hickoxwith the NY Philharmonic.
Lauren received an undergraduate degree in voice performance from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts with a full scholarship. While in Boston, she studied voice with Penelope Bitzas. Lauren was an active soloist for the choirs at Boston University. She also had the opportunity to sing under Dr. Ann Howard Jones in great choral works, such as Brahms’ Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and Britten’s War Requiem.
Lauren’s musical theater roles include Cinderella (Into the Woods), Phyllia (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), Agnes Gooch (Mame), and Maria (The Sound of Music). Before her high school years, Lauren sang in community musical theater companies and choirs from the age of 5. Lauren is a New Jersey native.
107 Merchant Street
Audubon, NJ 08106
ph: 856-546-7600
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