Jane Edgren

Teaching Resumé

Teaching Experience

Private Voice Teacher and Vocal Coach

2000-present

Jane Edgren Voice Studio – Vocal Fitness Training Method

  
Charlotte and Matthews, NC and online via Skype or FaceTime
Teach private voice lessons and vocal coaching to singers of many styles including classical, opera, music theater, jazz,  blues, rock and popular music.  Students follow a 14 unit progressive curriculum of vocal exercises and song integration.  Vocal coaching for musical theater auditions, and song choice assistance for national talent search television shows.

Music Ministry Associate, Christ Lutheran Church, Charlotte, NC

 2000-2012
Responsible for music programming for children ages newborn through middle school for a 2,800 member church.   Oversaw planning and implementation of children’s choir programs, directed choirs, Orff ensembles, vocal coaching of soloists of all ages, supervised volunteer staff and managed children’s music library.  Music director for all elementary, middle school  and high school musicals during the school year and for summer camps.   Used Finale software for creating arrangements for children’s choirs.

Voice Faculty, music.4.life Music Studio,  Charlotte, NC                              

 2009-2011

Voice Faculty, Academy of Fine Arts, Charlotte, NC                                    

 2003-2009
Taught private voice lessons and vocal coaching, and a “Keyboard for Singers” course.

Adjunct Voice Faculty, Charlotte Latin Upper School,  Charlotte, NC

  
Vocal coaching and lessons for young   men adjusting to their changing voices.

KINDERMUSIK® Educator                                                                       

 1997-2004
Kindermusik® by Jane Edgren, Maplewood & Summit, NJ and Charlotte, NC
Family Music Studio of Dilworth, Charlotte, NC
Licensed educator,  director and owner of a large Kindermusik program of over 90 families in New Jersey and in North Carolina.Taught all four curricula of Kindermusik for children ages newborn through age seven.

 Private Voice Students, New York, NY

 1983-1993

Voice Faculty, Detroit Community Music School, Detroit, MI                       

 1982-1983
Taught and maintained a studio of 20 private voice students.

Professional Development

Boston Conservatory at Berklee – Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy Workshop, 2020

Ken Bozeman, Ian Howell, Chadley Ballantyne, Bodo Maas

New England Conservatory of Music – Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop, 2020

Professional Certificate

Ken Bozeman, Tara Stadelman-Cohen, Lynn Helding, Ian Howell, Jared Trudeau, Mary Saunders-Barton, Michael Hanley, Patty Thom, Kevin Wilson

National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
Summer Workshop, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC  2015
Matthew Edwards, Trineice Robinson-Martin, W. Stephen Smith, Wendy LeBorgne, and Marci Daniels Rosenberg

Choristers Guild Workshop, Charlotte, NC Chapter
The Evolving Adolescent Singer, Anton Armstrong, 2008
The  Evolving Adult Singer, Eric Nelson, 2008
Working with Adolescent  Voices, John M. Cooksey, 2003

Choristers Guild Workshop, Atlanta, GA Chapter
Composing for Children’s Choirs, Becky Mayo and Madeline Bridges, 2010
Adult Choral Workshop, Paul Oakley, 2006
Children’s Vocal Workshop, John Feierabend, 2006
Children’s Choral Conducting, Helen Kemp, 2006

Music Week at Lutheridge Conference Center, Arden, NC 
Adult Choral Workshop, Bradley Ellingboe

Charlotte Children’s Choir Camp, Charlotte, NC
Conductor’s Training, Sandy Holland

American Orff-Schulwerk Association Workshop, Charlotte, NC
A Journey Through Orff, Konnie Saliba

Music Director/Production Credits

CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH, CHARLOTTE, NC

Production Assistance and Vocal Coach, 2001-2011

     The Wizard of Oz, The Music Man, Faith on Broadway (revue), Children of Eden

Music Director, Week-long Summer Arts Camps of Broadway Style Musicals  2005-2012

Youth Musicals – Middle and High School

     Willy Wonka, Jr., July 2012

     Seussical, Jr., June 2011

     Into the Woods, Jr., July 2010

     Bravo Broadway (revue), June 2009

     You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, July  2009

     Godspell, Jr., July 2008

     Nowhere to Run, July 2007 & July  2010

Elementary–3rd through 6th Grade – Music, Art & Drama Days

      Acorns to Oaks, July 2010

      Camp Wise-n-Up, July 2008, 2011

      Good Kings Come in Small Packages, July 2007

      American Ideal, July 2006

      Fish Tales, July 2005

Broadway Style Annual Christmas Musical Productions  2000-2009

Elementary & Middle School productions of 40-85 minute long musicals.    

Lutheridge Conference Center & Camp, Arden, NC

     Music Director, Music and Drama Summer Camps of Broadway Style Musicals, 2009-2014

     Guest Clinician, Orff and Movement  Seminar for Elementary, 2004