Music Performance Lessons
The skill of performance is often the missing link with many singers. Those who have been training for years and yet are missing this fundamental skill can work today with MFC Vocal
With 25 years of performance experience, rehearsal and concert/gig processes, performance direction experience for classical and contemporary stage as well as over 15 years International experience in private, group and 10 years online vocal teaching, I can offer you very personalised and goal centred singing lessons to achieve goals for your career.
Recently appointed Vocal Coach for the Acclaim Awards Ambassadorial award for young classical/opera singers, I offer one of Melbourne's best mentorship for career singers.
MFC MUSIC PERFORMANCE CLASSES
The MFC music performance classes are based on the assumption that you have a sound vocal technique but wish to deepen your confidence in stage and gig performance by enhancing skills in body language, vocabulary of movement and gesture, emotional connection displayed in physical expression and interpretation of music for stage in terms of roles and artistic expression for solo artists.
MFC STUDENT CONCERTS (Classical and Contemporary)
I offer students a biannual student concert to put their skills into action on the stage. Not only do we work on performance skills but I guarantee performance exposure with a live audience. All MFC concerts are recorded for study purposes and students learn how to grow the abilities by actual performance opportunities.
What you will receive in Music Performance Classes:
* Particular focus on song and role interpretation through deep study of text, notation and translating this to physical expression.
* Classical student receive role interpretation and build skills in relation to opera language and expounding how this looks as an actor.
* Contemporary and music theatre students work on their body language skills for audience, their fluid movement on stage as a performer for gigs, concerts and roles in music theatre and shows.
* Practice in preparation for professional music performance career.
Methodology
Through the process of textual and music analysis, we will delve deep into how they are interpreted and displayed in the body to create an authentic performance. We learn how to move in the space with awareness of the physicality and movement.
NOTE:
Due to the physicality of music performance, MFC Vocal does not offer online tuition for the subject which requires in person sessions.
About
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Female
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Teaching since 2005
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Working with children check
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Police check (Issued: 27/05/20)
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Teaches students aged 15+
Italo-Australian soprano, artist Michelle, studied at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Australia, where she received her Degree in Voice and received the award for Best Voice. She continued operatic studies at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Formazione, Italy, and Campus Opera, Gran Canaria.
Michelle has studied with prestigious teachers including Erik Halfvarson, Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Margaret Baker - Genovesi, Paolo Washington and Deborah Polaski.
Shortly after graduation, Michelle Marie performed the roles of Mimi, Giorgetta, and Anne Trulove with Melbourne City Opera and Opera Australia (OzOpera). She has won several awards, including four Acclaim Awards, which included singing the role of Madama Cortese, Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini, for Florence Opera, Italy.
Since 2005 Michelle performed Le Donne di Giacomo Puccini, Australia, and roles in the Puccini Festival, in Torre del Lago, Italy. Other roles include Leonora, Il Trovatore, Tosca, Puccini and Santuzza, Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni which she has performed on several occasions with great success. Michelle has recorded a CD with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Czech Republic and has sung at the Opera de Oviedo 'Alredador” concert of Massenet, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, (Mozart).
As a teacher she was the Head of the Voice Department in Carro De Baco Teatro, theatre academy training more than 150 students contemporary singing over 9 years. She raised us singers to become performers in their own right, including Esmeralda Colette soul singer who was a finalist in The Voice Spain 2016 and Soprano, Nuria Franco who has accomplished her career in opera on the world stages.
As a performer she has experience in TV and radio performance, stage and opera. She has developed skills to build confidence, stage presence and guidance in career advice.
Michelle has recently been appointed the Australian Vocal Coach and Consultant for the Acclaim Awards Australia. Having been a former awardee in 2003 she now returns with her wealth of knowledge coaching several finalists of the Acclaim Awards scholarship as part of their awards in view of training them further for European opera success.
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