New Almaden Speaking Voice Lessons

About Me

"When I go about singing, performing, or writing a song, I want to convey a message that there is something beyond your everyday worries and habits. There is this beautiful mystery within us all. I want to touch a person's spirit when I play, and I feel that music has that power.
If I am able to reach one person then I've done what I came to this world to do."
I have been performing professionally in the Bay Area and through out southern California for over 15 years. I have been teaching voice, guitar, piano and all music theory for 20 years. Some of my influences and inspirations are musicians like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, John Lennon, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Edith Piaf, and Sarah Vaughn just to name a few.
Having spent much of my time performing as a solo artist, I now love the company and sound of performing with my husband who is my bassist/guitarist, and with various other musicians and band mates. I have also started a company with my...

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I am a solo classical guitar performer and graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University with both Undergraduate and Masters Degrees in Guitar Performance. I have performed everything from Classical Guitar solo recitals to R&B themed fashion shows to classical arrangements of Miles Davis' Jazz legend "Kind of Blue" to internationally debuted film soundtracks. I have taught guitar for five years privately, as part of an outreach to middle school students in inner city Baltimore, to recovering alcoholics and narcotic abusers in a half-way home, and in various music schools in Maryland. I am desperately passionate about music and love to explore it in every way possible. And so I play guitar everywhere I can, I orchestrate musicals, I compose film soundtracks and try to learn everything I can about anything related to music.

I love to see the joy students experience when they realize they can create the music they want and this is what drives me to teach....

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Catherine D. has worked with musical theater and opera companies regionally and internationally. She has performed in a variety of musicals and operas, including The Music Man (Mrs. Paroo), Honk!ˆ (Henrietta), Once Upon A Mattress (Lady Rowena), Once On This Island, Miss Saigon, Aida, Singing In The Rain, Seussical the Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, Chess, Die Fledermaus, and Cosi Fan Tutti. Along with Janae Mariant, Catherine co-directed and starred as Jane Watson in the independent film Shirley Holmes and Jane Watson: The Murder In The Park. She has been a regular performer at the Camino Real Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano, CA where she recorded an album of songs celebrating San Juan and its history, entitled “Back to Capistrano,” with songwriter and playwright Gary McCarver. She recently was lucky enough to see another country’s perspective of musical theatre while working on the brilliantly acclaimed production of Blood Brothers at the Q in Queanbeyan, Australia,...

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SUSAN JEROME BIO
 
Susan has been a children's and adult theater and music teacher in the Bay Area for the past 20 years. She has had extensive training in singing, acting, improvisation, music, dance, directing and writing.  She has a BA in Theater Arts and attended "The American Academy of Dramatic Arts" in New York. Susan has been a leading show-singer, dancer, actress in New York, Minnesota and San Francisco and the Peninsula. She is also a professional  voice-over commercial artist and has been in many commercials and documentaries nationally. She is a member of SAG and AFTRA talent unions and has won many  awards for her talents. She has produced and directed several children's stage productions throughout her prestigious career.
"My greatest joy is watching students develop their talent and fulfill their musical and acting goals, whether it's preparing for a school musical or a National commercial."

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Who Am I

I am a fabulous teacher. Really! As a member of NATS (National Organization of Teachers of Singing), I hold my teaching skills to a high standard. No matter what kind music you like to sing, I can help you become more comfortable and have lots of fun! Maybe you want to experiment with pop, jazz or rock? Maybe you like current Broadway hits? Come visit me. Lets play with your favorites, and enjoy! My primary focus is classical, which is the foundation for all healthy singing.

I teach in San Francisco, and in Belmont, CA.

I love singing. It fills my life with transcendent joy as nothing else. I thrive on performing. It feeds my soul to offer my gifts to my audience. I know that for a few hours I have transported them from their daily lives to another world just by using my voice and commitment to the text, and that brings me such pleasure. The natural progression from these first two is the call to share my experience as a teacher of voice, and performing...

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Stefaie August is a private music educator located in San Francisco, CA. She has been assisting students of all levels gain a mastery of voice, piano, music theory, and compostion for over 20 years. Her specialty is jazz, rock, blues and pop music.

Stefanie holds a bachelor of Music cum laude degree in jazz studies from the University of Bridgeport. She is also a highly accomplished vocalist and pianist who continues to perform whenever possible.

Stefanie looks forward to helping you acheive your goals as vocalist or musician.