Workshop

Complete Package Performer is delighted to announce the

2017 Acting for Singers Intensive Training

August 26, 27 and September 9,10 in San Francisco

+ Sharpen and enhance your acting skills

+ Stand out in auditions and performances

+ Create compelling dramatic presentations

Over two weekends: receive Acting workshops, Acting and Musicality master classes, and Scene and Aria staging culminating in a public Performance.

This intensive is for professional, emerging professional and advanced college level singers. No age limit.

So you've got all the words memorized, the notes learned, but something about your audition song is still missing? Or you simply love a certain aria and you want to make it even better? "Filling in the Gaps- Fine-Tuning Your Audition Song" will help you bring your performance to a new level. We will focus on how to use the music to inform your emotional and vocal choices. Participants should bring a song or aria that is memorized and performance ready. If in a foreign language, you must know the translation quite well.

Having trouble interpreting a song? Too wrapped up in your technique to sell your song? Feeling musically stilted to make your song come alive? Don’t know what to do with your hands, your body, or even your face? This class will touch on the matter of things to make a song become alive. From musical and technical challenges, to interpretive and physical frustrations, we will help get to the heart of what really matters…the song.

Auditions are the Job Interview of the entertainment profession, and you need good tools to show what you do best: Great monologues are a vitally important tool.

Make that 2 minutes really work for you: Use the audition process as a showcase for you and what you do best, learn to LOVE to audition, and ace your next job interview!

If you don’t have prepared pieces yet: That’s OK – everyone is welcome! We will get you started on finding something great.

What is a Patter Song? One useful definition: any song emphasizing words over music, characterized by wit, verbal agility, and (usually) humor. Although the familiar G&S Patter Songs were more often written for male performers, there are many patter songs for female performers, especially in the modern repertoire (notably, Sondheim, Harnick & Bock, and Meredith Willson.)

This class will cover both technique and interpretation.

"For over thirty years SFEMS has offered one of the most comprehensive summer early music programs in the United States, led by a faculty of international artists in residence. Instrumental and vocal master classes, lectures, coached ensembles, and recitals provide an opportunity for adult musicians and dancers at a variety of levels to improve their ensemble skills, performance techniques, and teaching abilities. Medieval & Renaissance Workshop; Baroque Workshop; Recorder Workshops on offer.

"For over thirty years SFEMS has offered one of the most comprehensive summer early music programs in the United States, led by a faculty of international artists in residence. Instrumental and vocal master classes, lectures, coached ensembles, and recitals provide an opportunity for adult musicians and dancers at a variety of levels to improve their ensemble skills, performance techniques, and teaching abilities. Medieval & Renaissance Workshop; Baroque Workshop; Recorder Workshops on offer.