Singers Symposium Application Deadline Extended

Due to the current world situation the deadline for applications for the Singers Symposium in Siena has been extended. Applications will be accepted through April 10th. Due to many requests the Symposium will also be able to accomodate those who might wish to stay at the villa and attend the concerts but not participate in the classes. We have arranged an all inclusive price of $750 which includes meals and lodging for the duration of the Symposium.

The Singers Symposium is a vocal performance workshop for singers focusing on Concert, Cabaret, Jazz, Saloon and Pop. It will take place in Siena, Italy from June 23rd through the 30th. Taking part as Master Teachers are Ellie Ellsworth, Mike Greensill, Andrea Marcovicci, Shelly Markham, Christopher Denny, Amanda McBroom, Margaret Whiting, Jack Wrangler more to be announced. Many on this list had been part of the now-discontinued Cabaret Symposium at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

Attendees will spend eight days in Siena, Italy studying and enhancing their performance skills in the American Classic Popular Song and Broadway tradition including jazz, cabaret, saloon etc. A maximum of 30 attendees will work with the award winning staff of master teachers.

Some of the topics covered in sessions will be:

* choosing material: -songs, stories,and set-ups
* acting the song-interpretation
* connecting with the audience: personalization and interaction
* song writing: looking at lyric structure, musical form and context
* comedy: the importance and function of humor in the act
* arranging the songs: keys, tempos, feel, groove, and color.
* developing, routining and framing the act * presentation: clothes, accessories, shoes, colors
* marketing: relations with press, publicity, flyers and the internet
* relations with club, concert and other venues owners and bookers
* recording
* mic technique work will be done in small & large groups as well as one on one sessions.

Students will stay and work at a beautifully refurbished 17th century villa owned by the Baronessa Sergardi. Located a short distance from the ancient city of Siena. The "Villa di Catignano" was built at the end of 17th century by the ancestor of the currents proprietors, Quinto Settano, pseudonym of Monsignor Lodovico Sergardi, a writer and a lover of the arts. The Villa, overlooking a beautiful Italian garden, is decorated with statues representing the four seasons, and the medieval towers of Siena can be seen in the distance. The large entrance hall is dominated by the coat of arms of the Sergardi family and their motto "Expertus fidelem." Guests will appreciate lemon trees, vases of geraniums all around the Villa and the Arcadian atmosphere which has been for centuries a frame to the tradition of a family of notaries and lovers of letters and arts.

Siena is the home of Palio, one of the most exciting spectacles in the world: twice a year (July 2nd and August 16th) the city's contrade, or neighborhoods, hold a bareback horse race around the town square in honor of the Virgin Mary.

For more information and an application form, see http://www.singermanwayne.com/.

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