Vocal Career Seminar at Northwestern University

Have you wondered what it would take to have a career singing? This career seminar will help to answer these questions whether you are just venturing out into the field as a high school student, you are in college, or you are wanting to return to the business after a hiatus. Lectures, lessons, an opera production or scenes production and master classes with international opera singer Pamela Hinchman, associate professor of voice at Northwestern University and colleagues from around the world. In these classes you will learn how to audition for an agent, an opera company, and a musical theater company. The seminar will identify pieces that will make you your most marketable product and then help you to perfect them. You will learn how a singer can most effectively create a dynamic résumé and bio, get advice on the proper photo for your voice type, and provide a marketing strategy if you are at that stage in your career. Bodywork and acting classes as well as guidance from vocal health specialists will aid the singer in remain healthy throughout their career. A conductor will conduct you in scenes from operas and music theater or perhaps a full production and they will be performed on Friday evening to a full audience. Space is limited so early submission of participant applications is advisable.

A special section has been added for high school students interested in exploring what it would be like to have a career on the stage. In addition to coachings and performances, they will begin to develop skills in preparation for college auditions for both music theater and classical vocal study.

Pamela Hinchman has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Avery Fischer Hall as well as with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh, Wichita, Columbus, Harrisburg, Connecticut, Kansas City, West Virginia, Cairo (Egypt), and Calgary Symphony Orchestras. Winner of the Prix Spéciale in Belgium’s International Bel Canto Competition, she has also appeared with the Cleveland Opera, Mansfield Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera New England, Opera Company of Boston, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Belgium), Nashville Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Austin Opera, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City.