Sing Anything: Mastering Vocal Styles

Lisa Popeil is one of America's foremost singing experts and has an international reputation as an innovator in the technique and pedagogy of vocal styles. She holds a Master's Degree in Voice from California Institute of the Arts and has taught professionally for over 35 years. Beginning with piano lessons at age 4 and voice training at 6, Lisa has sung in every style including: opera, musical theater, jazz, pop, rock, R&B, and country and her voice has been featured on commercials, television and film. In 2006, she received the LA Music Award for 'Career Achievement in Vocal Instruction'. Lisa has appeared on 'LA Ink', 'Home & Family Show', 'Idol Tonight' and 'Starting Over', 'Biography' and Fox News, over 40 radio programs and featured in magazines including Music Connection, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Karaoke Scene, Singer & Musician and Journal of Singing. She presents workshops and research papers at prestigious voice conferences around the world as an authority on belting and commercial vocal styles. Ms. Popeil is contributing to the upcoming 'Oxford Handbook of Singing' and 'Oxford Handbook of Music Education'. Gina Latimerlo is a born teacher with a Masters in Teaching Music. She also has Bachelors degrees in the fields of Music, Theatre, and English, as well as credentials to teach in all three subjects. Always wanting to know more so that she can teach more, she has trained with the best in voice, musical theatre, opera, jazz, pop, and drama in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York. Gina has been teaching and directing all ages since 1995 with experience at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, as well as at the collegiate and local theatre level. Gina has been thoroughly enjoying instructing voice through private lessons in her Latimerlo Studio since 1998 and has a highly sucessful clientele. Her students, have, in addition to local successes, signed with agents and record labels, gone to top-notch popular music conservatories and theatre programs, and have performed on Broadway and in touring companies. Additionally, Gina's studio has voice instructors teaching in just about every corner of the San Francisco Bay Area. With teachers in the East Bay, South Bay, Napa, Marin, and the Peninsula, the Latimerlo Studio is training the next generation of singers with expertise and enthusiasm!