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“A year on, I am still feeling the effects of the project and my creativity has just shot up. I‘ve never sung so well, or been so unafraid to explore, and to do that in a live performance context. Every time I go out on stage it‘s almost irrelevant that there is an audience; I just want to let rip!
Louise Rutkowski,
(This Mortal Coil)
singer and recording artist,
London, England”
(This Mortal Coil)
singer and recording artist,
London, England”
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THE FACULTY is a unique constellation of teachers with diverse fields of expertise. Our relationship as teachers and friends spans twenty-three years. We believe in offering instruction that is uncompromising in quality; we honor the vivid connections between life and art and constantly seek out ways to live life as fully as possible. We see the voice as a direct expression of the human soul and are committed to creating a supportive environment that encourages students to take risks and jump over edges. The 2010 faculty includes |
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BELLE LINDA HALPERN (Vocal Technique & Songs) a cabaret singer and actress, has taught singing since 1986 in Boston, San Francisco, Italy and France. Belle has performed at clubs and theaters in New York, San Francisco, Paris, Munich, Jerusalem, and Bombay. She has taught at Harvard University and the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA. Her influences include cabaret singer Martha Schlamme (cabaret), Penelope Kreitzer (acting), Edwin Gray (musical theatre), and Christa Ludwig (opera). Belle is co-founder of the Ariel Group and co-author of the best-selling Leadership Presence, a book about leadership and dramatic performance. During the workshop, Belle will focus on the art of cabaret: connecting performers to their song and to their audience through feelings and life experiences..
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ANJA STRUCHHOLZ (Movement & Performance Presence) has studied and taught theater, movement and voice for the past 20 years throughout Europe and the US. Her work is informed by approaches ranging from the voice work of the Roy Hart Theatre and Kristin Linklater, Classical Ballet and New Dance to the acting approach of Chechov, the work of Augusto Boal and Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theater. She has sung in choirs and a cappella quartets, and is currently performing her One-Woman-Show in Germany. Anja’s classes focus on connecting body, voice, text and imagination, and the ability to be present on stage with awareness, aliveness and confidence.
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RON ROY (Songs, Musical Style) is a pianist, coach, musical director and performer. He is currently a full time faculty member at the Boston Conservatory, teaching in the Musical Theater Department. In the United States, Ron has extensive credits in cabaret, musical theater and opera. He also travels internationally as musical director and accompanist for a wide variety of shows and performers, including the Off-Broadway hit, Forbidden Broadway which he has been involved with since 1990. Ron has developed his skill in accompanying through many years of working with singers of various genres from classical and opera to pop, jazz and cabaret. He coaches beginners, amateurs and professionals, encouraging and helping them to develop their own unique voice. Ron brings his ‘joie de vivre’, his exceptional talent and passion for music and song to his teaching. Additionally, he works with the Ariel Group, an international organization unique in its use of music in developing leadership skills with members of multi-national corporations around the globe.
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Past (and Future) Faculty include: CO-FOUNDER, PRINCIPAL FACULTY Bentzion (B.Z.) Goldberg CREATIVE PARTNER & PRINCIPAL GUEST TEACHER Dr. Phillip Woods GUEST TEACHERS Dorte Koch Steve Sweeting Marie-Paule Marthe Penelope Kreitzer Paul Crabtree Johannes Theron Arina Isaacson Hobart Yates Ingvar Bengtsson |
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