Patrick Mooney will be performing the Big Bad Wolf in Shrek, the Musical and John Proctor in The Crucible at the Fairmont Performing Arts Center in Cleveland, Ohio in June and Cousin Kevin in Broadway Fights Aids on July 28th.
Sarah Biggs will be performing the role of Serena in Legally Blonde in the Way Off Broadway Dinner Theater in Frederick, Maryland from June 14th through August 24th.
Frank Senior completed his recording Let Me Be Frank which is currently available online at CDBaby.com. You can check out Frank’s website here.
Charlotte will be teaching vocal technique classes at CAP21 this summer for the Pre College and Professional Programs.
Sarah Biggs will be performing the role of Serena in Legally Blonde in the Way Off Broadway Dinner Theater in Frederick, Maryland from June 14th through August 24th.
Dr. Leslie Jones, Director, The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School
at Lighthouse International, had these glowing words following Charlotte’s Grand Rounds presentation on teaching singing to students who are blind and have low vision on February 2, 2012:
“I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you and congratulate you on a superb job this morning at Grand Rounds. You made the Music School proud! I love the fact that you have the ability to speak clinically about music and at the same time, bring humanity and beauty to our art form! When I’ve spoken to a few of my Lighthouse colleagues, they have exclaimed about your knowledge and presentation. Thank you and know how valued you are.”
Congratulations, Charlotte!
Friday, December 16, Ms. Surkin will be singing the alto solo in Bach Cantata’s #122 with a quartet from the St. Lukes Orchestra and Lighthouse International Vocal Ensemble at
The Unitarian Church of All Souls
1157 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
Friday, December 16, 2011 – 7:30 pm.
I presented a vocal workshop at the Voice Foundation Symposium in Philadelphia June 3, 2011, at the Academy of Vocal Arts.
I recently taught a 4 week seminar in Keeping Your Voice Healthy at Lighthouse International Music School.
A performance called Sorry, Wrong Number by Jack Beeson, in which I played one of the leading roles of the First Operator, has been made into a CD available on the Albany Records label.
Sorry, Wrong Number is a conversational one act opera by Jack Beeson with the libretto by the composer adapted from the play by Lucille Fletcher, performed with the Center for Contemporary Opera (Richard Marshall, General Director and conductor).
Charlotte Surkin is teaching vocal technique classes for the Pre-College Program at Collaborative Arts Project (CAP21) as well as “Keeping Your Voice Healthy” Classes at the Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School at Lighthouse International in the summer of 2012.
Maria Rios and Lynnette Tatum will be singing at Don’t Tell Mama on Friday, April 20th at 7pm.
Don’t Tell Mama
343 West 46th Street
New York, NY
Please call 212-757-0788 for reservations.
Madison Eastman and Sara Merner will be performing in Stephen Schwartz’s Children of Eden May 3 and 4, 2012.
CAP21
18 West 18th Street
New York, NY
Students of Ms. Surkin from The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School will be performing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at 1000 Fifth Avenue in New York City on Friday, May 11, 2012 at 7:00 pm.
Admission is free with donation to the museum.
Alyssa Jones will be singing the soprano solo in Franz Schubert’s Staenchen and Layrssa Schoeck will be singing the part of the child in Franz Schubert’s Erlkoenig in a Mark Morris dance concert called Bedtime at
Marymount Manhattan College
221 East 71st Street
New York, New York 10021
Performances dates are:
May 3, 4 and 5 (matinee and evening) &
May 10, 11 and 12 (matinee and evening)
Sara Glancy will be Ceclia in a workshop of a world premiere show called Misunderstood the Musical, which features the music of Pink.
Emerging Artist Theater at the TADA Theater
May 2012
Robert Torres will be singing the role of Saul and Alyssa Jones will be singing in the ensemble of Charles Strouse’s Rags, March 7-11, 2012 at
Marymount Manhattan College
221 East 71st Street
New York, New York 10021
Hillary Pusak will be performing this summer with the Ocean City Theater Company as Gretel in The Fabulous Factory.
Performances are August 6-11, 2012.
Aubrey Adams will be singing in the ensemble in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard and as an angel in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes this summer at the Tulane Lyric Summer Theater in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Ms. Surkin will be giving a demonstration lecture for the doctors and staff at Lighthouse International (111 East 59th Street, New York, NY) on February 2, 2012 at 8:30 am. The topic will be teaching singing to students who are blind and have low vision.
Sara Glancy plays the role of The Young Wife in the Tisch CAP21 third year musical production of Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello Again, a musical based on the 1897 play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler, which focuses on a series of love affairs among ten characters during the ten different decades of the 20th century.
December 7th at 8 PM
December 8th at 8 PM
December 9th at 8 PM
December 10th at 2 PM and 8 PM
All performances are at
Theater 104
113 2nd Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets
Rebecca Schoffer performs in the Atlantic Theatre Company’s The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs as part of the Atlantic For Kids programming. Performances are through October 30.
Performances are held at Classic Stage Company, 136 E. 13th Street in NYC.
Click here for tickets, call 212-279-4200, or purchase tickets in person at the Atlantic Stage 2 Box Office (330 W 16th Street, Mon-Fri, 12-6).
Meryl Williams from NYU CAP21 plays the role of the Gospel Soloist in the Tisch School of the Arts production of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Violet.
Performances are November 10 – 19, 2011 at the
Abe Burrows Theatre
721 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10003
Charlotte Surkin taught vocal technique classes for the Professional and Pre-College Programs at Collaborative Arts Project (CAP21) as well as “Keeping Your Voice Healthy” Classes at the Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School at Lighthouse International in the summer of 2011.
Kim Wilpon will be playing the role of Marty in Grease at the Booth Theater in Ogunquit, Maine during the month of July.
Alexandrea Tocco will be playing Maureen in Jonathan Larson’s Rent at the TriArts Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, Connecticut, July 15-24, 2011.
Alyssa Jones will be Annie in Dress Up and Dance this summer in Lake George, New York.
Amanda Brantley will be performing with the Texas Family Musicals this summer from June 26th through August 14th.
In May 2011 Ashley Foley will lead the company as Peggy Sawyer in a production of 42nd Street at the Narrows Community Theater in Brooklyn.
Performances dates are May 13, 14, 20, 21 @ 8pm & May 15 & 22 @ 3pm.
All performances are held at:
Fort Hamilton Army Base
101st St. and Fort Hamilton Parkway
Brooklyn, NY
Alexandrea Tocca will perform in a production of Sweet Charity March 25, 26 & 27 at 8 pm, and March 29 – April 2 at 8 pm.
Directed by Kenneth Noel Mitchell, with Music Supervision by Michael McElroy and Choreography by Barry McNabb, Sweet Charity is a musical workshop presented by the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Department of Drama featuring the students currently studying at CAP21. The performances will be held at 113 Second Avenue, Theatre 104.
Tickets are $7 for Students and Faculty (with ID), $14 for General Admission, and are reserved on a first come, first served basis.
Brooke L. Molitor performs in the American Premiere of Ivor Novello and Jerome Kern’s Theodore & Co., March 15-27, 2011. Presented by Musicals Tonight at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre (2162 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY - between 76th & 77th Streets).
The performance schedule is as follows:
March 15-27, 2011 (Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri/Sat @ 7:30; Wed/Fri @ 2:00; Sun @ 3:00)
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the box office: 212-579-4230 or http://www.iseats.net/
NYU/CAP21 student Shannon McFarland will be playing SoppySue/Caldwell Secretary in the NYU-GAP Production of Urinetown: The Musical, March 8-12, 2011 at 8pm.
Urinetown: The Musical will be performed in the Shop Theater at 721 Broadway, New York, New York.
My students from The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School at Lighthouse International will be performing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:00 pm in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
This 15th Annual Lighthouse at the Met Concert will be titled “Musical Postcards from the Met: Travels through the Permanent Collection”. Music, art, and performers of all ages are featured in a program that transports the audience to all corners and cultures of the globe.
The concert is free with Museum admission. For further information, call (212) 650-2010.
I will be performing in a Faculty Benefit Concert for the Lighthouse Music School on Wednesday, February 9th at 7:30 pm in the Lighthouse Theater, 111 East 59th street, New York, New York.
Courtney White recently sang Woman One in the quartet song cycle Edges by Ben Pasek and Justine Paul, and Kimberly Wilpon recently sang the Green Girl in Shout by Phillip George and Peter Morris. Both shows were presented in the Theresa Lang Theater at Marymount College at 221 East 71st Street in Manhattan on Saturday, January 29, 2011.
Robert Torres played “Chip” in a production of the musical Spelling Bee for the month of January 2011 with the INN ONE THEATRICS in Rutland, Vermont. In addition, his song cycle entitled “Pipedream” was mounted at Merchants Hall in Rutland, Vermont during a week in January.
Alexandrea Tocca played Karessa in Tick, Tick, Boom and the Geisha, the Wife and the Actress in Michael John LaChuisa’s See What I Want to See at NYU in November and December 2010.
Tenor Michael Abelson sang the tenor solos in Ramirez’s Missa Criolla at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Friday, December 10, 2010.
Rebecca Schoffer starred in Reckless by Craig Lucas at the Atlantic Theater Stage 2, December 8-11, 2010.
I recently returned from Shenyang, China where I gave a Master Class to the award-winning Liaoning Choir. Pictures are featured below; click any image for a larger photo:
On Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 7:00 p.m., Lighthouse Music School students, Yeong Nam Chun (Mezzo Soprano), Lynnette Tatum (Soprano), Maria Rios (Soprano) and Frank Senior (Baritone) performed in a recital to benefit the Lighthouse Music School. Repertoire included Italian and German Art Songs, Spirituals, Korean Songs, Jazz Songs and world premiere songs by Ms. Tatum. The concert was performed at the Korea Village Opencenter at 150-24 Northern Boulevard in Flushing, New York.
Ashley Foley played Pee-bo in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado with the Brooklyn Heights Players through October 24, 2010.
I taught a Vocal Technique Class in the Pre-College Division of CAP21 this summer.
Voice Students of the The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School at Lighthouse International performed in the Grace, Rainey, Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7 pm.
Michal Chorny and Shanna Richey performed the roles of Bernarda Alba and Maria Josepha in Michael John LaChiusa’s Bernada Alba in the CAP21 Production at the Gene Frankel Theater in Manhattan April 17-24, 2010.
Lauren Norris performed the role of the Mother and Lauren Orlando was in the ensemble of Bright Lights, Big City at Marymount Manhattan College, 221 East 71st street in Manhattan March 10-14, 2010.
Brittany Cheek from Marymount College will be taking a leave of absence in 2010 to sing Ariel in Disney’s Little Mermaid in Orlando, Florida.
On April 17, 2009, the Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School performed music in celebration of the New American Period Rooms at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I taught a Master Class at Columbia University through the New York Singing Association’s Master Teacher of Pedagogy Program. My theme was “Teaching Singing to People with Vision Loss.” This course was video taped via Webinar through the NYSTA web site and can be taken for credit through Westminster Choir College.
I taught a vocal technique classes at CAP21 during the month of July 2009.
