Teaches online

Teaches all skill levels

Age: 7+

Speaks Spanish

Teaching since 2006

Certificate

Learn the Art of Musical Theatre Songwriting from an Off-Broadway Composer, BMI Alumni

I'm a working songwriter and musical theater composer/lyricist with over 15 years of experience crafting songs and 12 years experience teaching. My work has been performed in New York Off-Broadway, Nashville, and L.A. I have a Master of Music in Music Theory and Composition from NYU where I studied with the same private teacher as Joe Iconis (Broadway's "Be More Chill"). I'm also an alumnus famed BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, which boasts of alumni such as Edward Kleban (A Chorus Line), Alan Menken (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast), Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime), and Robert Lopez, (Avenue Q, Book of Mormon). Songwriting lessons are in some ways similar to Composition Lessons (see "Composition") with a focus on popular songwriting, including musical theater and commercial music. You will learn about harmony and form, but lyric writing and also how to tell a story through song. You will also work on how to create a catchy hook, how to keep your song focused and clear, how to create a "turn" at the end, and how to grab and keep the listener's attention. I love helping songwriters find their voice. Can't wait to work with you!

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Teaches Online

Teaching Hours

Monday

2 PM-3:30 PM

4 PM-4:30 PM

5 PM-5:30 PM

Tuesday

2:45 PM-3 PM

4 PM-5:30 PM

Thursday

3 PM-3:30 PM

4:30 PM-5 PM

Times are shown in your local timezone (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Pricing

30 minutes

$35

45 minutes

$53

60 minutes

$70

90 minutes

$105

About Natalie L.

4.8

(29)

Natalie is a NYU and BMI Workshop trained composer of songs, musicals, and concert music who has helped many songwriters find their voice and fine-tune their skills. She is particularly adept at identifying what is keeping a song from working (whether it be music, lyrics or both) and helping writers get to the heart of what they want to say. Natalie is also a classically trained pianist, currently on the piano faculty at Music and Arts. Natalie's work has been heard in New York at Lincoln Center, 54 Below, The Duplex, Laurie Beechman Theatre, The Flea Theatre, and Greenwhich Music House, as well as in San Diego, LA, and Nashville. She wrote the music, book and lyrics to HOME/FRONT which was produced in 2014 to sold-out audiences, and was a semi-finalist in the New York New Work Festival. She most recently wrote the music and lyrics for an episode in New Musical Inc's webseries SO PROUDLY WE HAILED. Other musicals include: A Morning in New York, 1974 (reading 356 Studios, New York, NY), Hall Pass ("Flyers and Fryers," produced by Blindspot Collective), Club Meds (reading, Mad Horse Theatre), and "Performance Anxiety" (music/lyrics, The Flea Theatre, Raw Impressions Musical Theatre Marathon). She is listed in The Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers at Contemporary Musical Theater. Natalie holds a Masters in Music Composition and Theory from New York University where she studied songwriter and concert composition with Dr. Steven Rosenhaus. Natalie is an alumnus of the famed BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop in New York whose other alumni include Alan Menken, Robert Lopez (Avenue Q, Frozen), Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), Tom Kitt (next to normal), and Flaherty & Ahrens (Ragtime). She also studied songwriting through the Johnny Mercer Workshop at Northwestern University with Craig Carnelia, and Andrew Lippa, Nashville songwriter Lari White, and Amanda McBroom ("The Rose"). Natalie loves working with composers and songwriters of all ages and ability levels. Please click on individual lessons to learn more. "I took composition lessons with Natalie and looking back on my work before starting with her, it was scattered, lacked structure, needed honing. She is already a crazy talented composer herself and it translates to her teaching. Natalie is really great at asking the right questions. Why did you write this? What are you trying to say with this piece? What feeling are you trying to tap into with those chords? I can attest to writing with much more confidence and just as important, REWRITING with much more confidence. If the song doesn't work she will let you know but subsequently, she will let you know what DOES work and what to build on. Very supportive, as well as very critical, in the best possible way. It means she cares about the work you're creating. So much so that after running several rounds of rewrites by her, I completely trust the product I am putting out there. I will continue to come back to Natalie to hone my craft." -- Tristan S, composition student, New York, NY

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29 Reviews

Kayla

Online

My daughter is really enjoying the lessons with Natalie!

Posted Mar 2, 2021

Anthony Novak

Online

Great instruction! Have Natalie be your teacher!

Posted Feb 23, 2021

Nicole

Online

She’s really amazing

Posted Feb 8, 2021

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Experience

Composer/Performer

Mar, 2022 - Present

Piano Love (album)

Piano Love is Natalie Rebecca Lovejoy's debut studio album of original, modern piano solos. Inspired by the works of Bach, Chopin, Debussy, George Gershwin, Aaron Copeland, Floyd Cramer, Vince Guaraldi, and others, the album consists of 10 tracks infused with classical, pop, rock, romantic, and jazz elements that takes the classic piano solo into the twenty first century.

Composer/Lyricist

Mar, 2022 - Present

New Musicals, Inc

Natalie wrote the music and lyrics for the musical episode "Still Standing Proud" for New Musicals Inc's webseries SO PROUDLY WE HAILED, which honors veterans in their own words.

Composer

Oct, 2018 - Nov, 2018

Tennesse State University's Meistersingers Choir

Natalie's choral piece "By Night when Others Soundly Slept" was performed on two separate concerts by Tennesse State University's Meistersingers Choir.

Private Songwriting, Piano and Voice Teacher

Aug, 2017 - Present

Music & Arts

Composer/Lyricist/Librettist

Oct, 2016 - Present

Blind Spot Collective

Natalie wrote the music, book, and lyrics to the short musical "Flyers and Fryers" as part of the musical HALL PASS, an immersive musical set and performed inside a high school, offering a glimpse of the world young people navigate everyday. "Flyers and Fryers" premiered at Grace Church School in the East Village, Manhattan, in October 2016 and continues to be performed around the country.

Composer/Lyricist

Jan, 2016 - Apr, 2017

Muse Match: A Musical Theater Blind Date

MuseMatch is a Musical Theater Blind Date Collaboration, where composers are paired with singers they don’t know and are asked to share their deepest, personal joys and fears; and make a song together. Natalie has been asked to write for Muse Match twice, once for Ally Bonino ("Put on a Smile") and another for Lucy Horton ("How to Read a Room") who is currently on the national tour of "Anastasia."

Composer/Lyricist

Apr, 2014 - Present

Contemporary Musical Theatre

Natalie is listed in the writers' directory of contemporarymusicaltheatre.com where her sheet music is available for purchse.

Private Voice and Piano Teacher

Sep, 2013 - Jun, 2016

The Bergen Academy of Music and Art

Composer - "Movement to Contact"

Sep, 2013 - Sep, 2013

Veteran Artist Program

Composer the score for the Veteran's Artist Program's PSA "Movement to Contact" which has played in Times Square and various TV networks.

Composer/Lyricist/Librettist

May, 2013 - Present

Home/Front

A new musical about the conflict between those who deploy and those who stay home. Premiered Off-Off Broadway at the Abingdon Theater in NYC in 2013.

Private Piano Teacher

Mar, 2010 - Sep, 2011

Finger Power Music

Private Songwriting, Piano and Voice Teacher

Jan, 2009 - Present

Private company

General Music Teacher

Sep, 2006 - Jun, 2007

Corkan Middle School

Education

Private Study

Sep, 1989 - May, 2002

Classical Piano

Certificate

Sep, 2010 - Jun, 2012

The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop

Master of Music

Sep, 2009 - May, 2011

New York University

Master of Music in Music Theory and Composition

Sep, 2009 - May, 2011

New York University

Bachelor of Music

Sep, 2001 - May, 2005

The Catholic University of American

Certificate

Sep, 1998 - Jun, 2001

The Peabody Preperatory

Affiliations

Pi Kappa Lambda

Sep, 2002

An American honor society for undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors of music. There are currently 205 active chapters and approximately 64,500 individual members.

Dramatists Guild, The

Feb, 2014

The Dramatists Guild of America was established over eighty years ago, and is the only professional association which advances the interests of playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists writing for the living stage. The Guild has over 6,000 members nationwide, from beginning writers to the most prominent authors represented on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in regional theaters.

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

May, 2005

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a membership association of more than 480,000 US composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers. The ASCAP is committed to nurturing music makers throughout their careers.