Faculty
GVAI’s faculty consists of a group of outstanding professionals dedicated to help you reaching your goals as an artist by serving your individual needs.
Get first hand advice from professionals working at theaters, universities and agencies in Germany and in US who know both systems and who are passionate to share their insights and their story with you.
Get first hand advice from professionals working at theaters, universities and agencies in Germany and in US who know both systems and who are passionate to share their insights and their story with you.
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"Christine has so many methods to bring confidence in a singer. And being so young, I really needed it."
Fidel Romero, Texas - Tamino, Summer Program 2016 |
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GVAI's Faculty in Seattle 2018
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Christine Menschner
Director of the German Vocal Arts Institute
German diction, language and voice coach
Performance Training
Director of the German Vocal Arts Institute
German diction, language and voice coach
Performance Training
Erich Parce
Baritone, Stage Director
Appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Greater Miami Opera, L’Opera d'Nice and L'Opera de Montreal, Seattle Opera
Baritone, Stage Director
Appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Greater Miami Opera, L’Opera d'Nice and L'Opera de Montreal, Seattle Opera
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Glenda Williams
Coach, Accompanist
Appeared as principal opera coach/accompanist at the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, Skagit Opera, Bellevue Opera, Seattle Opera's Young Artists Program, Seattle Opera Guild.
Coach, Accompanist
Appeared as principal opera coach/accompanist at the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, Skagit Opera, Bellevue Opera, Seattle Opera's Young Artists Program, Seattle Opera Guild.
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Greg Smith
Greater Seattle area accompanist. Currently a staff accompanist at Cornish College of the Arts and Seattle Opera. Experience playing for/in choirs, competitions, lessons, recording sessions, classes, orchestras, big bands, small ensembles, duos, jazz combos, rock groups, musical pits, baroque continuo, and more. Competent at sight-reading, arranging, improvising, score-reading, transposing, and orchestrating. |
Career management, business know-how
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GVAI's faculty in Germany
Ellen Rissinger
American Vocal Coach/Accompanist
Semperoper Dresden, Germany
Founder of The Diction Police
Ellen has worked with singers at the Semperoper, Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Oper Frankfurt, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera, Kentucky Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Baltimore Opera, at University of Miami's summer program in Salzburg, Austria; IPAI in Kiefersfelden, Germany; AIMS in Graz, Austria; The Hartt School, Carnegie Mellon University, Boston Conservatory, Oklahoma City University, Murray State and the Boston NATS Chapter among others.
American Vocal Coach/Accompanist
Semperoper Dresden, Germany
Founder of The Diction Police
Ellen has worked with singers at the Semperoper, Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Oper Frankfurt, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera, Kentucky Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Baltimore Opera, at University of Miami's summer program in Salzburg, Austria; IPAI in Kiefersfelden, Germany; AIMS in Graz, Austria; The Hartt School, Carnegie Mellon University, Boston Conservatory, Oklahoma City University, Murray State and the Boston NATS Chapter among others.
Opera and Concert Agency
Therese Renick, Germany
Director of the opera and concert agency
Appeared as mezzo-soprano in numerous European opera houses, including Vienna, Munich, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mannheim, Essen, also at the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals
Therese Renick, Germany
Director of the opera and concert agency
Appeared as mezzo-soprano in numerous European opera houses, including Vienna, Munich, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mannheim, Essen, also at the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals
Prof. Jeanette Favaro-Reuter
Voice faculty at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
(College of Music and Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)
Appeared as soprano at the Freiburg Opera in Germany, the State Theater in Kassel, Liceu in Barcelona, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the RoTheatre in Rotterdam, the Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg and the Munich National Opera
Voice faculty at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
(College of Music and Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)
Appeared as soprano at the Freiburg Opera in Germany, the State Theater in Kassel, Liceu in Barcelona, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the RoTheatre in Rotterdam, the Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg and the Munich National Opera
Jonathan Michie
American baritone at the Opera Leipzig/Germany
Fest contract at the Oper Leipzig/Germany
Appeared at Los Angeles Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Teatro Comunale Bolzano, Beijing Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Chautauqua Opera, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., Opera Saratoga, Ohio Light Opera, with Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhaus Orchestra and Leipzig Ballet, Slovenian Philharmonic, National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall, New World Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
American baritone at the Opera Leipzig/Germany
Fest contract at the Oper Leipzig/Germany
Appeared at Los Angeles Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Teatro Comunale Bolzano, Beijing Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Chautauqua Opera, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., Opera Saratoga, Ohio Light Opera, with Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhaus Orchestra and Leipzig Ballet, Slovenian Philharmonic, National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall, New World Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Faculty subject to change.