Teaches online
Teaches all skill levels
Age: 12+
Speaks Italian, French, Latin for singing
Teaching since 2008
Master of Business Administration
About Deanne T.
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Do you love to sing? Does it bring joy to your heart? Do you especially love to belt out show tunes and the American Jazz standards? Deanne is your voice partner then!
Deanne T. is a professional musical theatre performer, graduating with a theatre degree from Northwestern University, and a full year of theatre studies in London, England. In London she studied with opera singer Estelle Spottiswood , followed by 8 years with Dr. Ronald Combs in Chicago, and Peter Amster for repertoire and audition coaching. She also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Loyola University.
Deanne has performed a vast variety of music. Favorite roles include Dolly in Hello Dolly, Rosie in Bye, Bye Birdie, Fastrada in Pippin, and the Lead Kit Kat Girl in Cabaret ( NU),
Light Opera Works: Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, Wonderful Town and She Loves Me (the last two as lead understudy). Stage Right Dinner Theatre: My Fair Lady, Kiss Me Kate. The renowned Theatre Building in Chicago: a Cy Coleman Review and musical in development based on Mary Todd Lincoln entitled Crazy Mary. She also appeared in The Golden Apple with Pegasus Players/LOW, Fiddler On The Roof (twice!), Annie Warbucks and Northbrook Professional Theatre for Young Audiences. (Her specialty playing the most wicked character in the production.)
Deanne has appeared in many local commercials and industrial videos for companies such as McDonalds, Audi and Sears. She holds a dance minor and was on scholarship at Gus Giordano Dance Studio, also studying with Lou Conte and Joel Hall. For many of the theatre performances she was the dance captain.
*** Studio Equipment ***
5'6" Baldwin Grand piano
Full Casio electronic keyboard and stand
*** Specialties ***
Musical Theatre (Broadway/London), Operetta, Jazz, Pop/Rock
Sightreading for singers/solfegge method
Instructor details
Location:
Teacher's Studio
Hillside
Teacher's Studio
Randolph St.
Teaches Online
Teaching Hours
Friday
1 PM-4:30 PM
Saturday
7 AM-10 AM
Times are shown in your local timezone (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Pricing
60 minutes
$100
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4 Reviews
Ilana
Teacher's studio
Deanne really helped me grow as not only a singer, but as a performer! I saw great improvement over my three years working with her and she the most caring and supportive teacher!
Posted Apr 26, 2020
Maya
Online
Deanne has been so wonderful with this shift to online teaching. Deanne is talented, patient, intelligent, and really makes any student improve tremendously. Any student is lucky to learn from Deanne.
Posted Apr 26, 2020
Franc Nikolla
Teacher's studio
I agree with everything the other reviewer and student said. Deanne is very knowledgeable, positive and enthusiastic. And she makes voice lessons really enjoyable. I was on the fence with taking voice lessons and I am extremely glad I went with it, and Deanne is a big part of this reason.
Posted Mar 4, 2015
Experience
Voice competition judge
Jan, 2010 - Apr, 2020National Association of Teachers of Singing
Coming up! The Chicago chapter high school and college musical theatre voice competition.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Speech
Sep, 1977Northwestern University
Master of Business Administration
Sep, 1982Loyola University
Affiliations
National Association of Teachers of Singing
Jan, 2010Founded in 1944, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc. (NATS) is the largest professional association of teachers of singing in the world with more than 7,000 members worldwide.
Languages
Latin for singing
Professional Proficiency
Italian
Professional Proficiency
French
Professional Proficiency
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Instructor details
Location:
Teacher's Studio
Hillside
Teacher's Studio
Randolph St.
Teaches Online
Teaching Hours
Friday
1 PM-4:30 PM
Saturday
7 AM-10 AM
Times are shown in your local timezone (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Pricing
60 minutes
$100
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