<span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:18px"><p><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Master Class with Joan Ellison: The Musical Theatre Vocal Audition</span></b></p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">To register, call 440-338-3171. Spaces are limited so make sure you reserve your spot now!</span></span><br>
<br>This course will be offered twice this summer, and is open to current FPAC Summer '09 students or alumni from our previous seasons.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Joan Ellison, adjunct Professor of Voice with Baldwin-Wallace’s nationally-renowned musical theatre program, will work with students on fine-tuning their musical theatre audition, addressing such issues as developing an athletic-yet-efficient vocal technique, choosing appropriate audition material, acting the song, singing different styles of musical theatre, reducing performance anxiety, and physical presentation in an audition setting. Participants are asked to bring sheet music for at least two songs from the musical theatre repertoire that they already know and for which they would like to receive coaching.</span></p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Two Sessions: Saturdays, June 13 and June 20, 10:30am - 11:30am at Mayfield Village Civic Center.<br>
Fee: $40 (maximum of 12 students)<br><br></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">OR<br>
Three Sessions: Tuesdays, July 14, 21 & 28 from 4:35pm - 5:35pm at Hathaway Brown School.<br></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Fee:$60 (maximum of 12 students)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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</span><b><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Joan Ellison - Teaching Bio (‘09)</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Joan Ellison is adjunct Professor of Voice at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, working exclusively with musical theatre majors in B-W’s nationally-renowned program. She holds an M.M.T. and a B.Mus. in voice performance from Oberlin Conservatory; while serving as an adjunct faculty member at Oberlin, she wrote the curriculum for the course, “Teaching Children to Sing.” Further studies in belted and popular vocal styles and pedagogy were with Leon Thurman, author of</span></span><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BodyMind & Voice</span></span></i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and piano study with Robert McDonald, accompanist of Midori and Isaac Stern. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style=""></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ms. Ellison’s students have performed principal and ensemble roles in numerous Broadway musicals, national tours, feature films, and with top regional theatres, as well as at the Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Playhouse Square, Opera Cleveland, and every other major Cleveland-area venue. All five members of her ‘09 graduating class at B-W signed (or are still considering multiple offers) with NYC agents, several are currently in callbacks for Broadway shows, and one already has been cast in</span></span><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Memphis</span></span></i><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(opening on B’way in October). Her students have also been admitted to college or graduate-level theatre/musical theatre programs at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, University of Michigan, Baldwin-Wallace, Case (MFA), Otterbein, Boston University, Carnegie-Mellon, NYU, The Guildford School of Acting (U.K.) and many others. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style=""></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In 2005, Ms. Ellison made her Severance Hall debut as a featured soloist with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, opposite Broadway baritone William Michals, and returned as their headliner on New Year’s Eve. Recent theatrical roles include Julie in</span></span><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Carousel</span></span></i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, Lizzie in</span></span><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">110 in the Shade</span></span></i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, Nellie in</span></span><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">South Pacific</span></span></i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and Claudia in</span></span><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nine</span></span></i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, as well as the revues</span></span><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A Grand Night for Singing</span></span></i><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and</span></span><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Music of Jacques Brel</span></span></i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. She co-created/arranged the cabaret show,</span></span><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gershwin ‘29</span></span></i><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, performing multiple engagements at Stages at the Cleveland Play House, Nighttown, Cain Park, and on numerous concert/cabaret series’ (</span></span><a href="http://www.circa1939.com/" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)" target="_blank"><span style="color:black"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.circa1939.com</span></span></span></a><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">). </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style=""></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A member of Actors’ Equity Association and the International Voice Care Network, Ms. Ellison has music-directed over 25 theatrical productions and maintains a select home studi</span></span><span style="font-size:small">o. </span></span></p>
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