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The Singer's Theatre
The Singer's Theatre was started as a means for young talent in this community to have an opportunity to perform extraordinary music and theatre in a semi-professional learning environment. We value safe and healthy singing and optimum involvement of all participants in performances.
You can contact us at 519.496.6347 or amanda@thesingerstheatre.ca. .
Producer/Resident Music Director - Amanda Brunk An active musical director and voice instructor, Ms. Brunk earned a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and remains a student of the constantly evolving field of Vocology, having recently been published in the esteemed Journal of Singing. She maintains memberships with The National Association of Teachers of Singing and The Voice Foundation and has completed several courses over the years, including The Voice Foundation 3rd Annual Voice Symposium: Voice Evaluation and Treatment - Medical and Therapeutic Considerations (Voice & Swallowing Center of Maine), NATS Vocology Seminar (Princeton, NJ) and The Institute of Voice Performance Pedagogy (Oberlin, OH), and has completed the Kodaly course on Teaching Music Literacy (Wilfrid Laurier University).
She has adjudicated voice competitions in Canada and the United States, and has attended courses and sessions in voice disorders and rehabilitation in New York, Philidelphia and Hamilton, ON. Her students have performed as members of the company at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada, Drayton Festival Theatre and Theatre and Company, and have starred in T.V.'s Degrassi: The Next Generation and My Life as a Dog. Others have gone on to study performance at Sheridan College, The University of Western Ontario, the Randolph Academy and Wilfrid Laurier University, among others. Amanda now maintains a voice studio where she coaches singers of all ages in technique, interpretation and expression through private lessons and masterclasses, and is the founder of the Kitchener-Waterloo based production company The Singer's Theatre. Amanda is the vocal director for LMC Productions cruise line shows as well as the annual Hope Benefit at the Centre in the Square. Favorite musical direction credits include My Fair Lady (RCMPI), Parade, Les Miserables and Candide (The Singer's Theatre).She continues to produce, direct and perform, with the intent to promote and maintain the integrity of dramatic vocal music.
Resident Director - Gordon Davis Gordon Davis graduated with a degree in Mathematics and English from the University of Western Ontario and later earned his Theatre Arts Specialist at the University of Toronto. He has been a major figure in Drama Education for almost 40 years. For 34 years, he was the theatre Arts teacher at Elmira District Secondary School.
Mr. Davis started the drama program at EDSS in 1971 with 2 classes. Under his direction, the program grew to be one of the most high profile and high quality programs in Ontario. The plays that Mr. Davis entered in the Sears Ontario Drama Festival garnered hundreds of awards and frequent trips to the Ontario Showcase, and have provided models of excellence for students and teachers across the province.
In addition to the honours that his productions have earned, Mr. Davis was named recipient of the Stewart Award for Teacher Excellence in 1990, and was the winner of the 1998 Waterloo Arts Council Award in the performance category for Directing. In 2008 he received the Michael Spence Award from Theatre Ontario for his contribution to young people's theatre, through the Sears Ontario Drama Festival.
Gordon retired from teaching in 2001 to concentrate on a freelance directing career. He is thrilled to be the resident director of The Singers Theatre, to further nurture young singers, providing them with an intense exposure to live theatre with innovative productions of challenging musical works.
Voice Teacher (Tier 1)- Angela Burns Angela Burns, originally from Bruce County, is a recent graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University in Honours Voice Performance. She will be continuing her studies in the Opera Diploma program this fall under the guidance of Kimberly Barber. Summer instructional programs include Queen of Puddings: Songs and Scenes in Toronto, as well as the Casalmaggiore International Festival in Casalmaggiore, Italy. At Laurier, Angela performed as soprano soloist with WLU’s orchestra and choir in their presentation of Poulenc’s Gloria. Some of Angela’s operatic roles with WLU include Despina in excerpts of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Harry in Britten’s Albert Herring, Sophie in excerpts of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, L’enfant in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges. Her musical theatre roles include Kim in Bye, Bye, Birdie, and Laurey in Oklahoma!. Angela has taught Music for Young People at the Kincardine Summer Music Festival with a focus on Orff technique, and has assisted in the choral program at Southampton Summer Music. Angela is thrilled to be beginning her vocal studio at Singer’s Theatre in Waterloo.
Voice Teacher (Tier 1)- Angela Shea Angela Shea developed her love of singing with the international award-winning Hastings and Prince Edward Children`s Chorus while growing up in Prince Edward County. She recently graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Music specializing in Voice Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University and will be completing an Opera Diploma in 2009. This past winter she had the pleasure of playing Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. Her other roles with Opera Laurier have included Cendrillon in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Barbarina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Adina in Donizetti`s L’Elisir D’Amore, Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen, Second Woman in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, La Sorella Infermiera in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and Louise in Charpentier’s Louise. Angela has a strong knowledge of French, Italian and German pronunciation and is continuing her studies in French this spring at the University of Waterloo. Angela is delighted to be joining the faculty at The Singer’s Theatre and is looking forward to working with the Junior Ensemble.
Voice Teacher (Tier 2) - Sandra Tucker Described as posessing a voice that is "meltingly lyrical", Sandra Tucker received a Bachelor of Musicand a Diploma in Opera from Wilfrid Laurier University under the direction of Victor Martens.
She then went on to study with acclaimed soprano, Edith Wiens, at the Hochschule für Musik
in Augsburg, Germany, for which she was the recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Emerging Professional Artists and the York Celebration of the Arts Professional Artist Bursary.
While in Germany she received an Artists Diploma and Post Graduate Certificate and had the opportunity to work with such greats as Rudolph Jansen, Brigitte Fassbaender, Rudolph Piernay, Sena Jurinac,Sarah Walker, Ian Burnside, and others.
Her concert credits include appearances with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra London,
the Barrie-Huronia Symphony, the WLU orchestra, the Hochschule für Musik Augsburg Orchester,
Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Guelph Chamber Choir, University of Guelph Choir,and Hart House Orchestra, Dvorak's Te Deum and Rutter's Mass of the Children with the Cellar Singers,Elijah with the Menno Singers as well as the London Philharmonic Choir, Messiah with the Mennonite Mass Choir and at the Basilika in Ulm, Germany, and as a soloist in the European Musik Festival at the Bach-Akademie in Stuttgart where she sang the soprano soloist for Beethoven's Missa Solemnis under the baton of Sir Helmuth Rilling.
Her opera credits include Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte,Carolina in Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, Both Susanna and the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Anna Maurrant in Street Scene,
Manon in Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief,as well as major roles in Die Zauberflöte,Hansel and Gretel, and others.
Sandra has sung for the heads of the Russian embassy at the home of Glazunov in Munich
and has been invited to represent Canada at the International Festival of the Conservatories in
St. Petersburg. Her upcoming engagements include Richard Strauss's Vier Letzte Lieder with the
Wellington Winds, Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute with Opera Kitchener, and Rutter's Mass of the Children with the Grand River Chorus. Sandra is also a 2007 Laureate of Les Jeunes Ambassaduers Lyriques
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