Course Description
https://www.crowden.org/young-musicians-vocal-academy/
June 30 - July 11, Monday - Friday (no class on July 4)
9am to 3pm
Performance July 11 at 3pm
Step up your singing skills and join us for our Young Musicians’ Vocal Academy!
Over the course of this two-week camp, students will gain important skills in vocal performance and receive musical training, which will prepare them for future musical theatre group and solo singing. Campers will learn a variety of musical theater pieces, both singing in a group and with opportunities to sing solo if desired. Campers will perform in a vocal music showcase open to family and friends on the final day.
Programs include daily movement class, breath clinic, staging rehearsals, private lessons and studio classes.
Participation in the Young Musicians’ Vocal Academy requires a placement audition for us to get to know you and your voice. This process helps us assign you music appropriate to your vocal development and interests.
If you do not have a song prepared yet, don’t worry we will guide you through vocal exercises and talk about what you love about singing! Crowden will contact prospective students to schedule an appointment once registration is received.
For any questions feel free to contact our workshop director, Vanessa Langer at vlanger@crowden.org.
Before- and after-care is available 8 to 9am and 3 to 6pm for an additional $11 per hour (advance signup required, nonrefundable). Drop-in care is available for $14 per hour.
37.9020612, -122.259717
Berkeley, CA (94708)
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Music Styles:
Classical - Pop
Teacher's Instrument/Voice:
Soprano
Instrument/Voice Types Taught:
All Voice types
Education:
B.A. Music, University of California at Berkeley
M.M. cum laude in Voice, DePaul University
M.M. Master in Vocal Arts Graduate Vocal Fellowship, Bard College Conservatory of Music
Years Teaching:
20+
Offers Private Lessons:
Yes
Teaching Method:
An alumna of The Crowden School, Vanessa Langer is a voice instructor and featured soprano soloist for new works for soprano and orchestra. Vanessa brings an extensive experience in guiding students of all ages and backgrounds, cultivating a teaching style that incorporates a holistic approach, covering not only technical aspects but also the emotional and expressive dimensions of singing. A Bay Area native, Vanessa is the founder and director of the Firesong ensemble as well as a former core member of the Wild Rumpus
Ensemble. Various of her commission projects have been supported by major grants from the Zellerbach Foundation, New Music USA and Chamber Music of America. Featured soloist on the Pinna records label, Vanessa has given notable Bay Area premieres including Fausto Romitelli’s ‘Index of Metals’. Vanessa was named a New Horizon Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, served two Music Winter Residencies at the Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta Canada and won the Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement in the Arts and the Albert King Scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley.
Her earliest musical studies included coaching Bach cantatas with Anne Crowden or the Junior Bach Festival, productions of the San Francisco Girls Chorus and the children’s chorus in San Francisco Opera, as well as early music studies with David Tayler in the Collegium Musicum of UCBerkeley. Vanessa studied voice with Susanne Mentzer, Dawn Upshaw, and Laura Aikin as well as coached with breath specialist Deborah Birnbaum. She received a B.A. in Music from UCBerkeley, and M.M. cum laude in Classical Voice from DePaul University and a Master in Vocal Arts from Bard College Conservatory.
Vanessa lives with her son and husband in Milan, Italy where she is a vocal instructor and guides a vocal curriculum at the St Louis School of Milan.