ELISABETH HOWARD BIO

"Thank you for you invaluable help!" -STING “I always suspected that singing would be easier than it looks. And you have proved it!” - Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police. "Thanks for making the bird fly out of my throat." Andy Summers, guitarist for The Police

Music Connection Magazine, in Los Angeles, said in a review of her one-woman show, Opr'a to Pop'ra, “Elisabeth Howard is a talent to be reckoned with.”.
Review of the Cypress “Pops” Orchestra concert in California - “Elisabeth Howard wows the audience!"

“This training has carried me through years of professional singing,”
~ Paige O’Hara, voice of Belle in the film, "Beauty and the Beast."

“Your professionalism, depth of knowledge and commitment to NATS are truly exemplary,”
~ Scott McCoy, NATS President review of NATS/MTNA Music Theater III in Seattle, 2005.

Elisabeth Howard holds a B.S. and M.S. in voice from the Juilliard School and is on the voice faculty of Pepperdine University. She has also taught voice at Indiana University, University of Southern California and Hunter College in New York City. Elisabeth maintained a private vocal studio for twenty years in New City before moving to Los Angeles where she founded the Vocal Power Academy.

Elisabeth has trained certified Vocal Power Instructors in Los Angeles, Italy, Brazil, Germany, Texas and a Vocal Power Academy branch in Las Vegas.

Clients have appeared on American Idol, Star Search, TV series, film, recording, Broadway, Off-Broadway and National tours. Ms. Howard is the author of SING! book and 4 CDs and the ABC's of Vocal Harmony book and CD's and co-author of the Born to Sing DVD distributed by Alfred Publishing. Ms. Howard is a member of Actors Equity Association, AFTRA and is a voting member of the Grammy organization, NARAS. Elisabeth Past President of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). Elisabeth had a singer song writing contract with MCA Music.

NATS WORKSHOPS AND MASTER CLASSES
Los Angeles, San Diego, Central Coast (California), San Francisco, Houston.
NATS Western Regional Conference - San Jose, California.
NATS/MTNA National Conference Music Theater III - Seattle.
NATS National Convention - Philadelphia.

USA
Voice Foundation – Dr. Robert Sataloff – Philadelphia
Music Teachers Association of California - San Jose
California Association of Professional Music Teachers - San Mateo, California
Cal State Fullerton – Fullerton, California
Savannah Music Festival – Savannah, Georgia
LA Women in Music - Los Angeles,
Call to Arts - Los Angeles
Vocal Mecca - Los Angeles
Songsalive! - Los Angeles

ITALY
Rome - Scuola Popolare Di Musica Di Testaccio
Brescia - La scuola CAMBIOMUSICA
Brescia - Associazione Culturale CANTOSTUDIO
Florence - La scuola di musica - Il Globo
Milan - Accademia Vivaldi
Bergamo - Music Academy - Centro Didattico Produzione Musica
Padua - Susy Dal Gesso's Singin' School
Bolzano – Musica Blu
Sassari, Sardegna – Birdland School of Music

AUSTRIA
Innsbruck – Mozarteum
Salzburg – Mozarteum

SCANDINAVIA
Helsinki, Finland - Fifth Annual International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT)
Oslo, Norway - European Voice Teachers Association Conference (EVTA)

BRAZIL
Rio De Janeiro - Brazilian Voice Teachers National Conference

FRANCE
Paris - Association Francaise des Professeurs de Chant National Conference
Lyon - Université Lumière Lyon 2

AUSTRALIA
Adelaide- National Convention - Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing

SWITZERLAND
Lausanne - National Conference - Association des Professeurs de Chant de Suisse

OPERATIC ROLES
Violetta in La Traviata, Lucia in Lucia Di Lamermoor, Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Gretel in Hansel
and Gretel, Sonia in The Merry Widow and Trixie in Pet Shop (Aspen Music Festival, James Levine, conductor)

ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
Telemann Society - Carnegie Hall
Sine Nomine Singers - Carnegie Hall
Miriam’s Triumph - Long Island University Chorus and Orchestra
Lord Nelson Mass - Hunter College Chorus and Orchestra
Schubert Mass in G – Juilliard Chorus and Orchestra
Bellflower Symphony – Joseph Taylor, conductor - Bellflower, California
Cypress “Pops” Orchestra - John E. Hall III, conductor – Cypress, California

MUSIC THEATRE
Jacques Brel, Cabaret, Company, The Most Happy Fella, Finians’ Rainbow, Man of La Mancha, Wonderful
Town, Kismet. West Coast premier of “Love Song.”

OFF-BROADWAY
Pins and Needles - Roundabout Theater
Blood - Joseph Papp’s Public Theater