Teaches online

Teaches all skill levels

Age: 13+

Speaks English

Teaching since 2006

BFA

About Michelle S.

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Michelle Shuttleworth Towler is an enthusiastic and patient professional voice teacher and performer. Since 2007, Michelle's students have been cast professionally in Broadway shows, tours, parks and cruises, and film and television in NYC and regionally. Michelle's younger students have been accepted to NYC performing arts high schools including LaGuardia and Frank Sinatra and sung in high level performances ranging from the Carnegie Hall Pops Gala, musicals for the NY Gilbert and Sullivan Players to the the prestigious National Children's Chorus. Michelle's school resume includes teaching Voice at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, the Broadway Training Center, Applause Theatrical Workshops and the Pittsburgh Musical Theater Conservatory. While helping her students fine tune their musical artistry, Michelle makes vocal health a top priority. Michelle is currently in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Mentorship Program. Through this, she will study with world class musical theater voice instructors to enhance her own pedagogical skills. She spends time observing otolaryngologists, speech pathologists and singing specialists at the NYU Voice Center, attends panels at Weill Cornell and hears vocal cases presented at Columbia University Medical Center. She continues to take courses in vocal anatomy and physiology to ensure she can give her students the best vocal education possible.

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Matt

Teacher's studio

 Michelle offers a powerful combination of skills that make her an amazing voice teacher. She is a careful listener, constantly seeking to understand and integrate the nuances of my goals into our lessons. Her energy is inspiring and motivates me to take risks while I explore my own voice and artistic expression. Finally, her interest and expertise in the physiological and technical elements of sound and vocal performance provide a constructive complement to her genuine love of voice and song.

Posted Nov 25, 2018

Anthony

Teacher's studio

I had always wanted to sing, but I didn't have the confidence that I could actually sing. I remember being scared to death to go to the first lesson. The fact that Michelle was so warm and welcoming right away allowed me to relax. She made a point to stress what I was doing right. My confidence increased, and, after only the first four classes, I noticed improvement. Michelle remembers your tendencies and she can get you to correct things that may be holding you back. She knows how to get you to produce sound in a way that will further your development. Three and a half years later, after maybe 100 lessons or so, the improvement I have noticed is dramatic. I have sung for fiance, my mother, my father, complete strangers, and friends. I have developed the awareness to correct myself when I practice on my own. This is invaluable because, as Michelle has told me repeatedly, the more your practice, and practice knowledgeably, the greater your improvements will be. What it has done for my confidence and how it has changed my life is impossible to put into words, but you'll understand it after your first month of lessons.

Posted Nov 6, 2018

Megan

Student's home

Michelle is absolutely amazing! She helped me so much with singing and vocal training.

Posted Nov 1, 2018

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Experience

Singing teacher

Jul, 2019 - Present

Broadway Training Center

Instruct classes for various ages in singing technique, audition technique, music theory and musical theater ensemble performance

Singing Teacher

Feb, 2018 - Jun, 2019

Professional Performing Arts School

Instruct and design curriculum for professional and focused students at one of the leading performing arts schools in Manhattan. Responsible for teaching music theory, vocal technique and preparing and directing two concerts per year.

Education Outreach Director

Jul, 2013 - Jul, 2014

Buck Hill Sky Top Music Festival

Branch of BHSTMF, which brings performers from the Met, NY Philharmonic, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway, and more to the Pocono Mountains. As Director of the Educational Outreach program, Michelle created the curriculum and taught classes which brought quality arts education to the students of the region. Genres included dance, jazz, opera and musical theater.

Co-Owner

Mar, 2012 - Jun, 2017

Footlights Entertainment

Co-owner of and performer for Footlights Entertainment, an NYC-based company that provides live entertainment to high-end corporate and private events. Show styles range from small-scale Broadway productions to small jazz ensembles and classical instrumentals.

Voice/Musical Theater Instructor

Jan, 2008 - Jun, 2014

Applause Theatrical Workshops

Private Voice Lesson Instructor Musical Theater Class Instructor for ages 3-12 Director of musical theater-based summer day program ages 3 - 12

Voice Instructor

Sep, 2007 - Present

Michelle Shuttleworth Towler Voice Studio

Private Voice teacher for students ages 13-adult. Students include adult professionals in musical theater, dance, film/TV, pop music, singer-songwriting and casting. Also, amateur adults who take lessons for fun, to prepare for a special event or develop vocal skills, confidence, etc. Young students include those preparing for top performing arts programs such as La Guardia HS, Frank Sinatra HS, The Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Program, Interlochen Arts Camp and the National Children's Chorus.

Theater Instructor

Sep, 2005 - Nov, 2006

Pittsburgh Musical Theater Conservatory

Instructor for high school students in pre-college musical theater program Advanced Acting, Script Analysis, Monologue Techniques

Education

BFA

Sep, 2001 - May, 2005

Point Park University

Affiliations

Actors' Equity Association

Nov, 2006

Actors' Equity Association, founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 49,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.

National Association of Teachers of Singing

Oct, 2013

Founded 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.

New York Singing Teachers Association

Sep, 2013

NYSTA strives to provide voice professionals, both locally and globally, with the tools and inspiration needed for an increasingly informed and creative pedagogy. Immense advances in voice science, neurology, psychology, education theory, medicine, and mind/body healing offer new information and techniques from which voice teachers can draw. By making these resources accessible to our members, we foster twenty-first-century pedagogy, rooted in the great traditions of the past, incorporating the new knowledge of our time.