Wendy Betts
Share the Music began as the means for experienced students in the Wendy Betts Voice Studio to perform outside their regular recital venues, "sharing their musical gifts through costumed, staged, community projects and concerts (most often as fund-raisers for needy organizations).
Wendy has been teaching vocal students since she was in high school, through private lessons, church choirs, Montessori pre-school, elementary and middle schools throughout West Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina and Massachusetts.
Her former high school voice students have won scholarships to Philadelphia School of Performing Arts, Oberlin, and Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. One student was a Metropolitan Opera finalist in 2000 and went on to study at Curtis Institute in Philadelphia; another won a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany upon graduation; another went on to graduate from the Juilliard School in NYC and is now engaged in a full career singing opera and art song all over the world. A young soprano earned first place finish in the high school division of the annual NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) competition.
Wendy enjoys teaching all ages and believes that music is a beautiful gift from God that deserves nurturing, developing to its fullest possible potential...then sharing!
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Wendy Betts Voice Studio
WHO: students from junior high age through 70’s and even older! Motivation: Studying music adds balance and joy to our lives, gives us confidence, broadens our appreciation of different musical styles, and enhances our enjoyment of the arts.
WHY: regular voice lessons are undertaken to promote a secure, grounded technique to serve the singer in any venue. Continued study brings out the best sound of which the singer is capable and helps ensure steady, healthy vocal production.
WHAT: classical (Mozart, Handel, Bach, early and late Italian arias through Romantic (Schumann, Faure, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, etc) to contemporary American, English, and European composers and on to Opera and Musical Theatre.
REQUIREMENTS: regular study, consistent practice on your own, commitment to participation in studio and open recitals and a passion for sharing your talents with others
REWARDS: those who take regular lessons over a period of several months and have proven themselves capable of good intonation, memorization of songs, pleasing delivery, and group compatibility are invited to join Share the Music, a group which sings the wonderful tunes from American Songbook composers Berlin, Porter, Kern, Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, and others.
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