When you are at the professional level, or even a student in a prestigious conservatory, a voice teacher and a vocal coach are two separate entities.
Strictly speaking, the voice teacher teaches you vocal technique – breath management, resonance, proper alignment, articulation, phonation, and helps you with extending your range and navigating vocal registers.
The vocal coach might focus on specific elements of your performance:
Diction
Musicianship
Interpretation
Performance Practice/Style
Or a combination of all these elements
With Mezzoid Voice Studio, you’ll develop your vocal technique in one-on-one lessons (Curiously Strong Singing). But you’ll become a performer in recitals and showcases, studio classes, workshops, mini-courses, and masterclasses with internationally known clinicians with whom Christine has worked in both her performing and teaching careers (Curiously Strong Performing).
[BONUS POST – this was content on the Curiously Strong Performing webpage but I’m trying to streamline my content and redirect things.]
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To find out more about joining Mezzoid Voice Studio, contact MVS.
Christine Thomas-O'Meally, a mezzo soprano and voice teacher currently based in the Baltimore-DC area, has performed everything from the motets of J.S. Bach to the melodies of Irving Berlin to the minimalism of Philip Glass.
As an opera singer and actress, she has appeared with companies such as Charm City Players, Spotlighters Theatre, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Theater of Northern Virginia, Opera North, the Washington Savoyards, In Tandem Theatre, Windfall Theater, The Young Victorian Theater of Baltimore, and Skylight Opera Theatre. She created the role of The Woman in Red in Dominick Argento’s Dream of Valentino in its world premiere with the Washington Opera and Mary Pickersgill in O'er the Ramparts at its world premiere during the Bicentennial of Battle of Baltimore at the Community College of Baltimore County. Other roles include Mrs. Paroo in Music Man, Mother Abbess in Sound of Music, Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, both Hansel and the Witch in Hansel & Gretel, and many roles in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Her performance as the Housekeeper in Man of La Mancha was honored with a WATCH award nomination.
Ms. Thomas-O'Meally received an M.M. in vocal performance from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. She regularly attends master classes and workshops in both performance and vocal pedagogy, and is certified in all three Levels of Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method. Her students have performed on national and international tours of Broadway productions, at prestigious conservatories, and in regional theater throughout the country.
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