Christina Rovics Vocal Studio Blog

Christina Rovics Vocal Studio Blog
Mar 23
2012

Advanced Voice Training, Bethel - Duet - It's a Dangerous Game - Matt Wilcox & Dianna Waller - Danbury Music Centre

Posted by Horovi in Song , musical theater , live concert , Fairfield County , duet , ct

Dianna Waller and Matt Wilcox sing It's A Dangerous Game from Jekyll & Hyde at Winter Concert 2012.  There were two concerts sponsored by the Christina Rovics Vocal Studio on March 11th at the Danbury Music Centre. The first one presented 14 singing students presenting a diverse repertoire of classical and musical theater songs. The second concert featured only Waller and Wilcox in a  program of contemporary musical theater repertoire.  The pianist was Howard Rovics.  Ray Flanigan (BethelPhotoWorks.com) shot the video.
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Mar 20
2012

Fairfield County Singing Lessons Blog: Shalaina - Rolling in the Deep

Posted by Horovi in young singer , ridgefield , popular song , ct , belting

Shalaina, age 12 has been studying voice with Christina for six months. This is her first public performance. She is singing at our Dinnertime Songfest at Nick's Restaurant in Danbury where students sing for parents and friends to prerecorded tracks. The event took place on February 28, 2012.
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Mar 17
2012

Fairfield County Singing Lessons Blog: Ria sings Safe and Sound at Nick's.

Posted by Horovi in young singer , Song , ridgefield , legitimate voice , ct

Ria is eleven years old. She has been studying singing with Christina for six months. This is her first public performance. It took place at the studio's Dinnertime Songfest at Nick's Restaurant in Danbury, Ct. on February 28, 2012.
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Mar 16
2012

Fairfield County Singing Lessons Blog: Amber sings Tomorrow at Nick's

Posted by Horovi in young singer , Fairfield County , ct , belting
Amber (age 9) opens our Dinnertime Songfest at Nick's Restaurant with Tomorrow from Annie. She had been studying singing with Christina for about six months.

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Mar 02
2012

Voice Lessons, Danbury - Singers Young and Old Provide Dinner Entertainment

Posted by Horovi in Singing students , Karaoke style concert , Fairfield County , ct
group-feb-28-12-nicksDinnertime Songfest at Nick's Restaurant took placce on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Ten singers participated karaoke style, singing to prerecorded tracks.
Emily DeGirolamo, Melissa Jones, Matt Wilcox, Tony Bruno and Peter Gasparo are  are to the left of Christina Rovics; Amber is in the center with Ria and Shalaina in the lower right corner.
Nick's is one of Danbury's favorite Italian restaurants. We've been presenting informal occasions there like this one since 2005. The setting is casual. People arrive at 6:00 pm to order before the music begins at 6:30 pm. Each singer sang two songs before an audience of about 35 parents, relatives and friends.
Some video will be appearing this month from this particular evening. On March 11th two more Christina Rovics Vocal Studio concerts will take place at the Danbury Music Centre in which the above singers and many more will be performing accompanied by Howard Rovics at the piano. It's free and open to the public.  Program one is at 4:00 pm followed by two outstanding singers presenting a recital of their own at 6:00 pm, a concert of contemporary musical theater by Dianna Waller and Matt Wilcox.
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Feb 13
2012

Vocal Training, Bethel Ct - Performance Opportunities for Our Students

Posted by Horovi in student concert , singers , musical theater , Fairfield County , ct
Three concerts are coming up in February and March providing performance opportunities for most of our students.
  • Dinnertime Songfest at Nick’s Restaurant, February 28, 2012 from 6 to 8  pm
  • Winter Concert 2012 at the Danbury Music Centre, March 11, 4:00 to 5:30 pm
  • Dianna Waller & Matt Wilcox in Concert, March 11 at 6:00 pm

EmilyatNicksFiltered-web Dinnertime Songfest is an informal event in which people sing the songs that they prepared to prerecorded tracks using a microphone.  It’s informal in that families and friends gather to dine while our singers provide the entertainment.  Usually each singer presents two songs with a few duets thrown in. The program begins with the least experienced singers and there are many right now for whom this may be their first public performance.  Eleven new students began voice training with Christina since last August.  As the program unfolds the more advanced singers are truly impressive. It’s a great opportunity for people to meet and hear each other’s music.

3-pic-set-for-Winter-2012-webThe Winter Concert 2012 on March 11th is more formal. There is no use of amplification whatsoever.  Howard Rovics accompanies every singer at the piano. Again the less experienced begin the program. Most participants sing two contrasting songs and some do duets.

DiannaVid2ed-webMatt-dramatic-webTwo of our students who are highly accomplished singers have a program of their own at 6:00 pm, Dianna Waller and Matt Wilcox.  Their program will be about one hour in length. It’s a concert of contemporary musical theater accompanied by Howard Rovics at the piano.  They’ve been working on it for months. The music is challenging and exciting.  

Some students will appear both at the Dinnertime Songfest and the Winter Concert.

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Nov 23
2011

Fairfield County Singing Lessons Blog: Matt Wilcox-Blaze of Glory

Posted by Horovi in rock , male singer , Karaoke , Danbury , ct , Blaze of Glory

Matt Wilcox sings Blaze of Glory by Jon Bon Jovi at Dinnertime Songfest at Nick’s Restaurant in Danbury, Ct., August 15, 2011. The song Blaze of Glory hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990. Jon Bon Jovi's first solo album entitled Blaze of Glory won the Golden Globe and received Academy Award and Grammy nominations. Matt is a powerful interpreter  of this genre.
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Nov 23
2011

Fairfield County Voice Students in Summer Concert 2011: Lana Levine - Angel Eyes

Posted by Horovi in live concert , female singer , ct , Bethel

Lana Levine, Bethel, CT. sings Little Girl Blue by Rodgers and Hart at the Summer Concert 2011 of the Christina Rovics Vocal Studio, July 31, 2011.  The pianist is Howard Rovics. The concert took place at the Danbury Music Centre.  The video was taken by Ray Flanigan of Bethel PhotoWorks.

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Nov 21
2011

Fairfield County Singing Lessons Blog: Willi Wonka at the Yorktown Stage

Posted by Horovi in Untagged 
ww_logoUpcomingWe went to see our ten year old student Evan star in Willi Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at Yorktown Stage on November 20, 2011. This 1971 musical was based on a 1964 novel by Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in which five children win an opportunity to tour this strange and exotic factory. Charlie is the last of the children to win the prize and much of the show centers around him.

Yorktown Stage in Yorktown Heights, New York is one of Westchester’s leading theaters, presenting a year round schedule of shows and special performing arts events. The cast was quite large (some 32 members), a mix of children, teens and adults. There were five young leads and our Evan played the starring role of Charlie Bucket.  Evan had a major acting and singing role in this production and he did an outstanding job. 
 Yorktown Stage prides itself on providing a professional pit orchestra for its productions.  There were times when we wondered how Evan  caught onto the pitch when Bricusse and Newley’s music takes tricky and unexpected turns.

Evan began voice training with Christina at age eight, already regarded as a talented young actor,  and subsequently began to study piano with Howard.  He performed last summer as Dodger in Oliver! at Musicals at Richter having done the role of Oliver the year before in Tarrytown. Trained to both belt and sing in his legitmate boy soprano voice he was prepared to do either role. Evan was also finalist at the December 2010 Industry Showcase Night  at Random Farms Kids Theater and the Broadway Workshop.  

In the past Christina trained two other singers for their appearances at the Yorktown Stage, Carly Spaeth and Karen Sullivan. Each starred in The Wizard of Oz in the role of Dorothy, Carly about ten years ago and Karen in the 1990s.

Willi Wonka runs through November 27th. Contact Yorktown Stage for tickets and showtimes.
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Nov 15
2011

Fairfield County Voice Training Blog: Hillhouse Opera Presents La Boheme

Posted by Horovi in La Boheme. opera , Hillhouse Opera Company Community opera

LaBoheme_web2New Haven based Hillhouse Opera Company put together a very worthy production of Puccini's La Boheme under the baton of Perry Price on November 12, 2011. Why should one want to travel 40 miles to see another La Boheme? The answer in our case was because two of our friends,  conductor Perry Price and baritone Michael Trnik (both of whom joined us in 2009 to put on a concert at the Danbury music Centre called Christina Rovics and Friends) were involved in the production.   However,  what really got us excited about going was the rehearsal footage that we saw on the Hillhouse Opera website.  We knew we were in for a very special evening.

One wished for some biographical information in the program,  as this was the strongest cast we’ve seen yet at Hillhouse. In an opera as familiar as La Boheme expectations are high, and these singers really satisfied.
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