<p>For the past 3 years I have mostly done musical theater songs with my vocal teachers. I was in a classial chorus from 3rd-5th grade but I haven't done much classicaly since. I am auditioning for mostly musical theater schools, but I fell in love with lawrence and am going to audition for their double degree with vocal performance. Only problem is my current teacher only does MT. She hated opera when she had to study it so she doesn't really teach it anymore. She has a couple of friends that are big in the opera world and talked to them but they said they wanted time to teach me how to do vowels correctly etc. and I dont have time for that, as the auditions are in Feb. I need one english art song and one italian aria. I have the 24 Italian Arias book but I am so lost. I was considering working with my friends voice teacher who works at a reputible music school here in NYC , but you had to have started lessons in Sept and payed for a set amount of lessons through the school . I don't know if I could get to her just do mabye 6 lessons with me and we would pay for them asccordingly. Anyway my question is does anyone know of any voice teachers in the NYC area that do classical and that I could possibly be able to arrange a few lessons with to get these peices ready for Lawrence? Thank you so much for your help. You guys are really wonderful.</p>
<p>You could try calling the Juilliard School to see if there is a student (maybe a master's student) who would be willing to work with you:</p>
<p>Vocal Arts
Brian Zeger, Artistic Director
Elizabeth G. Foreman, Administrative Director
(212) 799-5000, ext. 261</p>
<p>Perhaps your friend's voice teacher would know someone you can work with?</p>
<p>The Italian Songs book is great for audition rep. : )
I'm auditioning for Lawrence, too. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thank you Good luck to you also! when are you auditioning? Thank you so much binx.</p>
<p>You sound like you need primarily a vocal coach at this point - to get these classical pieces down pat. If you are still needy, e-mail me and I can give you the names of a fabulous coach/pedagogist duo that will whip you into shape for auditions... however, they are NOT cheap...but since you live in the city, you already know that.</p>
<p>I'm auditioning Jan. 20, so it's coming up very soon.</p>
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<li>call Juilliard or Manhattan school of music and find a voice teacher-check the pre-college programs first since the teachers deal with teens. your voice is related to your growth rate and all that.
this ear-training teacher has worked both with the pre-college kids and the older kids, including voice
<a href="http://www.juilliard.edu/asp/fsnew/faculty_details.php?FacultyId=203&School=College&Division=Music%5B/url%5D">http://www.juilliard.edu/asp/fsnew/faculty_details.php?FacultyId=203&School=College&Division=Music</a></li>
<li>if that fails, call Juilliard and find a master student to work with you
it is not usual to be asked for a pre-payment plan as if you were joining a health club.</li>
<li>if you don't find someone by friday, PM me. </li>
<li>buy the CD Cecilia Bartoli - If You Love Me (Se tu m'ami ), 18th-Century Italian Songs to sing along with? This is the basic beginning music taught to classical vocalists. listen!</li>
<li>be SURE you have a coach/vocalist work with you at least a few times to develop which songs to sing. Pick songs that accentuate your skills, nothing hard for you!!!!<br>
The audition folks want you to do well. they are looking at potential and musicality, not a star of the Met (yet). perfect vowels and a stilted performance with no musical feeling will not win out over talent and feeling.</li>
<li>google classical vocal audition advice, or even just conservatory audition advice.</li>
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<p>Thank you so much everyone! My vocal coach consulted some of her opera friends and I am going to go "Vittoria, mio core!" by Carissimi for my Italian Aria and we are stil trying to find a relitivly easy art song.</p>
<p>Find the collection: Songs by 22 Americans, comes in high and low, there are some nice, frequently performed songs at auditions, all in English, and all art songs. It is published by G.Schirmer. <a href="http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/pages.html?cart=337736453126478932&target=smp_detail.html%26sku%3DHL.50329400&s=pages-www.google.com/search&e=/sheetmusic/detail/HL.50329400.html&t=&k=&r=wwws-err5%5B/url%5D">http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/pages.html?cart=337736453126478932&target=smp_detail.html%26sku%3DHL.50329400&s=pages-www.google.com/search&e=/sheetmusic/detail/HL.50329400.html&t=&k=&r=wwws-err5</a></p>
<p>Good luck! (If you want to send me a private message telling me more about your voice, what your range is, how high you are comfortable sustaining a pitch, what kind of songs you are doing for your other pieces, I would be happy to suggest something from the collection. You can pick it up at Joseph Patelson's in NYC and lots of other places.)</p>
<p>Vittoria, mio core! is an Italian Art Song I believe...not an aria...</p>
<p>Best of luck with this and tell us how it all turns out.</p>
<p>For an incoming freshman, all of those early Italian pieces count as "songs", though they were in the very early operas and are actually arias. There ARE some early romantic songs (bel canto) in Italian, by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, but they are quite different. Tosti has some very romantic and theatrical Italian songs, too, but they are not what is expected of entering freshmen. Some of those early Italian aria/songs have been arranged (accompaniments realized) by modern composers (International Editions), and again, they have a different effect.</p>
<p>Thank you so much Loreli. I will def. send you a pm. As I said my voice teacher is more of a musical theater coach, so were are doing what we can, with what we have. Lawrence is the only school I am auditioning for VP so we shall see. I have the 24 Italian Songs and Arias and that is where I got "Vittoria" from so. My teacher thinks for my art song I should do an art song by Aaron Copeland or I wanna say George Wilder( Im not sure what but I might have gotten the name completly wrong) or something by Handel since everyone seems to know some Handel and I know I did some in my children chorus a million years ago when I was 8-10. Again you all are wonderful thank you so much. One the website it just says " 2 songs of contrasting styles one of which must be sung in English". I guess I should def. call the school, so i am going to try to do that tommorow as they are not open today b/c it is a holiday.</p>
<p>Handel or Copland would be perfect. I don't know Wilder, but John Duke also has some English songs that could work well for college auditions.</p>
<p>I'll be using Copland myself.</p>
<p>Kurt Weill perhaps - it is pronounced as a V not an American W?</p>