Workshops (workshop fees vary accordingly)

Michelle is available to bring workshops to your classes, work place or community group. She is also available to create a workshop specifically geared toward your group and where you want to go. Contact her to co-create a workshop today. Current offerings include the following:

Audition Workshop -
Thursdays 6/12 & 6/19 6p-10p —
Fine-tune audition pieces, craft a professional and effective presentation & develop tools to navigate the "nerves" that arise under audition circumstances. Each participant will have many opportunities to run entire audition pieces with a variety of professional piano accompanists. Allow yourself the luxury of being very prepared for the PATA auditions this month! Prepare 4-6 songs (32 bars ea) with sheet music in your key. Tuition: $135

8-week Fall Performance Intensive -
(Final class will be a showcase open to the public)
This session take the ongoing class work and monthly labs into an actual live performance. We will have time to play, create your set, craft transitions between songs, explore the microphone as an extension of you, practice the art of focal points & the stagecraft of connecting with an audience directly and through the character of a song.

1-Day Singing Performance workshop - This 3-hour workshop is an introduction to the work done in the ongoing classes. The format is the same including a group warm-up, a piano accompanist and individual work sessions for every participant. There is more general information discussed and more time allowed for questions and dialogue in order to flesh out the process of the ongoing class.

This workshop is available to any group or organizations such as theatre companies, schools, corporations, book clubs and all manner of arts clubs. Taking these risks together fosters intimacy, supportive growth & risk-taking.

6-Week Singing Performance workshop - This workshop takes the introduction one step further. The 6-week format allows time for participants to digest and assimilate their process between sessions as well as incorporating suggestions and techniques in their following class experiences.

Michelle offers this workshop intermittently and can also tailor it to any group or organization as above.

Performance Intensive - This 2-day workshop (currently in development) will be held in a professional performance venue. Participants will have a "tech" rehearsal and coaching (similar to the process in the Ongoing Singing Performance Classes) during the first session followed by an invited performance in the format of a "master class" during the second session. The live performance is open to friends & family and will be professionally recorded. A CD recording of the event will be included for participants.

This workshop includes technical aspects of live performing while the focus is on emotionally connected, authentic and vulnerable performances in the heightened circumstances of a professional venue. Initial enrollment will be for students enrolled in the Ongoing Singing Performance Classes, then former students and auditors as space allows.