The McClosky Institute of Voice

 

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Member of the Voice Faculty, The Boston Conservatory.

Teacher of singing and speech, and voice therapist since 1972.

Former Staff Voice Therapist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Former instructor in singing at Salve Regina University, The National Center of Afro-American Artists.

Students and former voice therapy clients have performed leading roles in Broadway, National, and International touring companies of 42nd Street, Fiddler, Les Misérables, Nunsense, Forbidden Broadway, Annie, Brigadoon, Sesame Street, and numerous New England Equity productions. They have had solo performances with the Boston Pops and have recorded for CBS, RCA, Arista, Atlantic, and many smaller labels.

Conducted seminars and workshops in singing, speech, and voice rehabilitation for choruses, school systems, music educator conventions, theater groups, and corporations throughout New England and the Pacific Northwest.

Founder and music director of the Mozart at Newport Music Festival, Newport, RI; conductor of the North Shore Light Opera, the M.I.T. Summer orchestral program, the Orpheus Wind Ensemble, the Cambridge Madrigal Singers, numerous university and community theater productions of operetta and musical theater. Assistant conductor for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerts Series, “What is Light Opera?”

Past President of The McClosky Institute of Voice.

Address:
56 Brown Street St, Brookline MA 02446
Telephone: (617) 277-7351
E-mail: msshea@aol.com

 

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