SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP FACULTY OF THE 2012 INSTITUTE
MARCIE STAPP
Marcie Stapp, author of The Singer's Guide to Languages, is a well-known vocal coach, accompanist and translator whose operatic translations are performed by leading music schools and professional companies across the country. She taught English and French at the Mangold Institute in Madrid, served as conductor/coach for the Academy of Vocal Arts, the Curtis Institute of Music, Indiana University, the Mozart Opera Studies Institute in Austria, Japan's Osaka College of Music and Sakai City Opera, the Gernot-Heindl Opera Studio of Munich, San Francisco Opera Center and Hawaii Opera Theatre among others. Ms. Stapp has accompanied the master classes of Margaret Harshaw, Renato Capecchi, Max Rudolf, Jess Thomas and Gerhard Hüsch, and has appeared in recital with members of the Metropolitan, San Francisco and New York City Opera companies. The Metropolitan Opera's renowned diction coach Nico Castel selected her as the editor of his popular Opera Libretti Series and the two collaborate annually on the Castel-Stapp Master Classes in San Francisco.
ROBERT BRITTON
Alexander Technique, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Teacher, Alexander Technique, San Francisco Conservatory since 1984; BASOTI since 2000. He maintains a private teaching practices in San Francisco as well as teaching at the Alexander Training Institute of San Francisco. Robert Britton has chaired the American Society for the Alexander Technique from 1997-1999, he is conference director of the International Association of Alexander Teachers. He has pursued studies in Buddhist meditation, Zen practice and Asian martial arts. Mr. Britton is on the Faculty Executive Committee at the Conservatory and serves on the Board of Directors at BASOTI.
WILLIAM BENNETT, The Velvet Singer
"The Business of Singing"
Velvet Singer seminars transform careers into action-oriented, goal-centered, and thriving businesses by establishing the basic habits that lead to success. We offer two seminars, both of which feature our unique seminar workbooks. The workbooks provide an efficient and practical platform for rich discussion.
Seminar A: “How To Sustain A Well-Tuned Business Plan”During this seminar each singer creates a career business plan. Singers assess strengths and weaknesses, define and prioritize goals, compose a career mission statement and much more.
For advanced young artists and emerging professionals
Seminar B: “From Dissonance To Harmony: How To Organize Your Career”Getting and staying organized is the key to being empowered, positive, and ready to move up to the next stage. In this seminar, singers establish the core administrative and technology skills that lead to success for students and young artists.
HECTOR CORREA, AUDITION TECHNIQUES
Hector Correa is a San Francisco director and actor who is widely considered one of the most inventive and groundbreaking members of his generation. Mr. Correa has acted numerous Shakespeare roles, contemporary roles in the Bay Area and L.A., and was the Artistic Director of the Pacific Alliance Repertory Theater in Santa Rosa for many years. Mr. Corriea will spend his 8th season at BASOTI this year in the dual roles of stage director and Audition Techniques specialist.
ROBERT WEINAPPLE, ACTING
ROBERT WEINAPPLE is an award winning professional actor, director, teacher and musician who has performed at most of the Bay Area's major theatres, including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, ACT, TheatreWorks, Shotgun Players, Aurora Theatre, and 42nd Street Moon. Televison and film credits include including the recent La Mission with Benjamin Bratt, and guest starring roles on Nash Bridges and Trauma. In addition to directing Plain & Fancy and Pardon My English at 42nd Street Moon, directing credits include Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest at the SF Shakespeare Festival, Twelfth Night with Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and more recently at Berkeley Opera, where he directed Donizetti’s Elisir D’Amore to critical acclaim. Robert also worked for many years with orchestras around the country hosting children's concerts entitled Where In The World of Music is Carmen SanDiego? and regularly appeared with the Marin Symphony dressed as a giant chicken named Ollie Opus. A faculty member for 8 years with the SF Conservatory of Music, he currently heads the SF branch of Seydways Acting Studios. His latest projects are assistant directing an original musical on Broadway called The Twelve; developing a new play about the life of drummer Keith Moon; directing Collected Stories at the Phoenix Theatre in SF; and playing rock guitar on weekends with his band Full On Fergus.