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LIVE SHOW TRAINING  Tom Jackson Productions  

AGENTS  USA  and Canadian

• American Federation of Music:  This union lists many more in North America.  Click link and select province or state. 
• Creative Artists Agency
• Dean Artists Management: Toronto, ON-- Canada's largest classical agency for singers, conductors and opera stage directors/choreographers.
• Jeff Roberts & Associates: (USA): is a Christian music booking agency celebrating over 28 years in ministry-driven artist representation
  
• Siegel Entertainment Ltd:  Vancouver, BC
• The Feldman Agency: Vancouver, BC & Toronto, ON-- Canada's leading full-service music booking agents
• United Talent Agency Group
• WME: Formed in 1898, William Morris Agency is the longest-running talent agency. In 2009, WMA merged with Endeavor to become one of the leading entertainment and media companies with an unparalleled list of artists and content creators. In 2014, WME acquired IMG, the global leader in sports, events, media and fashion, forming WME | IMG.
• Turner Music and Events: Vancouver, BC: agency that books live music, dance, comedy, spoken word, keynote speakers

AUDITIONS

• Yap Tracker:  Find and track 1000's of opera auditions and vocal competitions

COACHING THE CLASSICAL SINGER: http://www.americanacademyofteachersofsinging.org/assets/articles/finalCoachingclassicalsinger.pdf

COMPETITIONS: North America and International

The Voice - NBC:  USA Only | Audition Process | Guidelines | Video Sbumissions | Eligibility | Year Round Audtions.

Yap Tracker:  Find and track 1000's of opera auditions and vocal competitions

International -- Opera -- Art Song-- Oratorio --   

• World Federation of International Music Competitions
• BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
• Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
• Montreal International Music Competition
• Operalia

Vancouver, BC  

• The Canadian Music Competition:   supports and encourages young Canadian musicians
• Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival:  B.C.'s premier music festival, offering professional adjudication to some 10,000 students

Ontario, Canada

• CNE Rising Star Talent Competition:   

CARING FOR YOUR VOICE

• Duke Voice Care - (very thorough) https://www.uu.edu/dept/music/library/safety/VocalHealthInformation.pdf
• Sorting Fact from Fiction: UT Southwestern Medical Clinical Center for Voice: https://utswmed.org/medblog/vocal-cords-care-qa/
• National Center for Voice and Speech http://www.ncvs.org/products_tips.html
• Vocal Straw Exercise - Ingo Titze - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xYDvwvmBIM
• Vocal Cord Swelling Checks - Dr. Robert Bastian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zit6I7EPMto&t=57s
• Vocalists Guide to Throat Lozenges:  http://www.joannacazden.com/a-vocalists-guide-to-throat-lozenges/
• Why Singers Need Water - Shelagh Davies (Speech Language Pathologist) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agt9NvNCO5k

CREATIVE & ART DIRECTOR

Giovanni Amenta: to creates ads, video marketing, music videos, and visual assets that go beyond basic.  Honest marketing that builds trust and good will.

FUNDING RESOURCES  --  British Columbia, Canada, USA

Government 

• BC Arts Council
• Canada Council for the Arts
• Department of Canadian Heritage

Private Foundations -- Canada and USA --

• The Sullivan Foundation:  USA. Celebrating 60 years of support for the careers of young professional singers.
• Vancouver Opera Guild: Career Development Grant

Other Arts and Service Organizations

• Alliance for Arts and Culture (metro Vancouver)    
• Assembly of BC Arts Councils

INDUSTRY LINKS

Vancouver  and Toronto --  Labels, Managers, Presenters, Producers, Publishers

• Reliant Music Vancouver, BC-- producer management, radio promotion, music publishing
• PaulMercsConcerts: Vancouver, BC--independent concert promotion company based in Vancouver B.C
• Simkin Artist Management: Vancouver, BC--artist and producer management
• 604 Records: Vancouver, BC-- record label
• SOS Music: Vancouver, BC-- music production and song writing company

Alberta  --  Promoter  --

• Jeff Parry Promotions

LANGUAGES:  So you want to sing OPERA!!!!   ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN

• If you decide you ever want to explore more operatic singing in French, Italian, German etc. hunt down recordings produced by Walter Legge:  He produced for many extraordinary singers like Maria Callas and many others.
   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Legge

When in doubt about how to pronounce anything, consider Walter Legge's recordings by native singers of Italian as the standard.  

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_chart_for_Italian

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_chart_for_French

• NICO CASTEL of New York, has written excellent translations and pronunciations for every known opera.  You can find them at any university music library.  There are several volumes! Great resource.  http://www.leyerlepublications.com/?v=op_lib

NEWS (INDUSTRY RE-LATED SITES)

• Billboard:  From the latest music news and music reviews, to Billboard music charts, music articles, videos + more.
• Jazz Review: Where people talk about Jazz since 1997
• Jazz Times:  Features daily news, CD reviews, discussion forums, festival listings, merchandise, and contests.
• Down Beat: Jazz, Blues and Beyond
• Broadway World:  #1 site for Broadway Shows, Theatre, Live Entertainment, Tickets and more!
• Musical America:  International directory of performing arts organizations-- latest business news, careers and contacts for the performing arts
• Operagasm:  Opera news, auditions, competitions, performances, reviews and much more...
• Opera America:  National Service Organization that assists artists and opera companies
• Opera Canada:  Opera in Canada
• Opera News: Published by Metropolitan Opera Guild
• Opera Scene:  Quarterly bi-lingual magazine promoting classical music in Canada. Classical Music Daily News. Opera News.

PERFORMANCES: GREAT ONES!! 

• WILLIAM FERGUSON: GREAT CLASSICAL SINGER, GREAT ACTOR.  Watch and take notes.  A master at work, or should we say he's just having fun!  Click recital when you get to his Website

PERFORMING OPPORTUNITIES

Health Arts Society  Since 2006 over 5,000 high-quality professional Concerts in Care have brought the rich experience of performance arts to people in residential care.

Opera   --  VANCOUVER, BC  --

• Astrolab Musik Theatre:   watch for auditions
• Burnaby Lyric Opera:   watch for fall auditions
• City Opera Vancouver:    auditions
• Dragon Diva Operatic Theatre:   auditions
• Sing-along-Messiah:  Vancouver Bach Choir. Annual December event.  Soloists keep an eye out for fall audition notice.
• The Opera Project:  visit regularly for audition postings.   
• Vancouver Opera Auditions:  Chorus, Vancouver Opera in Schools, Roles for the Mainstage.
• Vancouver Concert Opera Co-Operative: watch regularly for audition notices

Plays/Popular music/Musicals --  VANCOUVER, BC --

• Arts Club Theatre
• Tuesday Night Music Club, presented by Spencer Welch Vocal Studio. 
• Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company

Pop  --   OKANAGAN, BC

• Pop Okanagan Festival    Apply to perform

Street Entertainment --  Vancouver, BC  --  busking

• General info, application forms, regulations, entertainment locations

PROMOTERS    --   TIPS  --

• Tips for anyone promoting a Christian concert. Jeff Roberts & Associates. A Contemporary Christian Artist Booking Agency. Even if you're not promoting a Christian concert, there are many good promotion suggestions on this page.

REHEARSAL SPACE

• Vancouver Rock Space  http://vancouverrockspace.com/

SOCIETIES   --  CANADIAN  --   BC and National

• CMRRA:   The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd.  It issues licenses and collects royalties for the use of music on CDs and other products. 
• Music BC Industry Association 
• SOCAN: Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. SOCAN is the Canadian copyright collective that administers the performing rights of more than 100,000 composer, author and music publisher members by licensing the use of their music in Canada. We collect licence fees on their behalf and distribute royalties to them.
• SODRAC:   Society for reproduction rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada.  SODRAC is a collective management society within the meaning of the Copyright Act. It grants licences for all reproductions of musical and artworks. SODRAC represents authors, composers, music publishers and creators and co-creators of artistic works. Its society also represents heirs of rights, titles and interests in a work following an author’s death.

STYLE Consulting 

• Giovanni Amenta: Creative Director - branding
• Sarah Danniels:  Vancouver Fashion and Wardrobe Sylist
• They Representation:  Hair Stylists, Make-up Artists

TOURING (soft-seat theatre market)

Performing Arts Service Organizations  --  CANADA --  Showcase your solo or group act
        Canada – West to East

• BC Touring Council: Pacific Contact
• Art Starts in Schools – BC
• Alberta Arts Touring Alliance – Alberta
• Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils – Saskatchewan
• Manitoba Arts Network – Manitoba
• Ontario Art Council – Ontario
• Ontario Contact / CCI
• CAPACOA – Ontario – National
• Rideau – Québec
• CINARS – Québec – International
• Contact East – Atlantic Canada

         United States -- showcase your solo or group act

• Arts Midwest
• Arts Northwest – Pacific Northwest
• Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP)
• Folk Alliance
• International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA)
• Southern Arts Federation
• Western Arts Alliance (WAA)
• Southern Arts Federation
• Western Arts Alliance (WAA)

USA Companies that Book Tours for soft-seat theatre market

• Allied Concert Services
• Live on Stage

TRAINING

Acting Classes  -- Vancouver  --

• Actorworks Vancouver:  Anastasia Bandey
• Andrew McIlroy & Associates:  

Kids and Teens: a screen acting program for kids and teens
Adults: on-camera classes for the novice to the accomplished actor

• Young Screen Actors Academy

Art Song -- Training for classical singers --  North America (Canada and USA) and Europe

• Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme: auditions for 2013 will be published in late summer 2012
• Steans Music Institute - Ravinia Festival -  Highland Park, IL, USAsummer festival    next season's info usually available late fall
• The Tanglewood Music Center (Boston, MA, USA)
• Toronto Summer Music Academy:  (Toronto, ON, Canada) this program alternates between Art Song and Opera
• Vancouver International Song Institute:  Vancouver, BC, Canada) summer programs

Ear Training: Perfect Pitch vs. Relative Pitch: How do they compare? Buy course online or buy used.

Jazz     --  Camp Guide  --   complete online form to access info

Musical Theatre   ----Young Singers -- Summer Music Camp --  Vancouver and beyond

• Gotta Sing Gotta Dance!  Vancouver, BC.  20th Year. Summer Musical Theatre Training 9-19 years of age.
• Speech-Level Singing:  Worldwide events (2011):  Summer Vocal Program 2012  Los Angeles
• Theatre Under the Stars: Vancouver, BC  2014 Musical theatre camp:   Click for Camp Poster/Registration and contact information.
• Arts Club Theatre: Vancouver, BC.  Musical Theatre Intensive: ages 12-19 

Opera -- Professional training--  North America (Canada and USA)

Canada

• L’Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal: Montreal, Quebec.  One to three year opera residency program. 
• Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio:   Canada's premier training program for young opera professionals. one to three year residency program
• Calgary Opera's Emerging Artist Development Program: apply
• Vancouver Opera: The Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program:  began 2012-2013 season
  • Click here to download applications for 2012/2013.

USA

• The Academy of Vocal Arts  (Philadelphia, PA)  4-Year resident Program
• Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program  (Washington, DC) 2 year residency program
• Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program  (Los Angeles, CA) 2-3 years paid residency for singers/pianists
• Glimmerglass Young Artist Program:  Cooperstown, NY-- Summer Festival
• Lindemann Young Artist Development Program:  (New York, NY)   Metropolitan Opera:  one year residency with annual renewal for up to three years 
• Houston Grand Opera  (Houston, TX) HGO Young Artists Vocal Academy (undergrads: one week)
• Houston Grand Opera  Houston, TX) HGO Studio 1-3 year residency.
• Merola Opera program:   San Francisco, CA-- Summer  Opera Training  (San Francisco Opera Center)
• Music Academy of the West:   Santa Barbara, CA    a classical singer summer festival
• San Francisco Adler Fellows:   a renewable year-long residency offered to selected singers and coaches who have completed the Merola Opera Program.
• The Ryan Opera Center Ensemble: (Chicago, Il) -- 12-month residency (Lyric Opera of Chicago)

Italy

• Centre for Opera Studies in Italy  Artistic Director, Darryl Edwards.  Summer Program

Popular Music    -- Speech-Level Singing  --   summer events and workshops -- all popular musical styles

• Speech-Level Singing: Worldwide events (2011):  Summer Vocal Program 2012  Los Angeles

Various Arts Discliplines --   The Banff Centre  --  Canada  --   Summer Training and ongoing residencies.

Vocal/Language Coach and Pianist-  Kinza Tyrrell  604-230-2903  Vancouver, BC  --  Vancouver Opera  --

Vocal Training Books:

• Seth Riggs: Speech-Level Singing
  • Singing for the Stars (Seth Riggs): Available online.  Includes 2 Cd's which demonstrate all of the vocal exercises.  You can use the Cd's to practice your vocal exercises whether you're a bass, baritone, tenor, counter-tenor, alto, mezzo soprano, or soprano.  Available at music stores.  Vancouver Long & McQuade for example. 
• Richard Miller:
  • The Structure of Singing: System and Art in Vocal Technique
  • Securing Baritone, Bass-Baritone, and Bass Voices
  • Training Tenor Voices
  • Training Soprano Voices

UNIONS 

American Federation of Musicians:   Canada and USA

Canadian Actors' Equity Association

The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists:   ACTRA

Union of BC Performers

VISAS -  Performing in the USA

RAZCo  Visas: Ron Zeelens, Esq. 254 West 54th Street, 14th Flr. New York, New York 10019 Phone: 212-757-1289 Fax: 212 586 5175    Issues that need to be worked out before booking a tour.  Nonimmigrant visas such as "O-1" and "P-1" visas. This route enables you to get a one-year visa where you can enter and leave the USA as many times as you wish for a whole year with your band.  Plan early, otherwise you may have to pay a fee to rush the paperwork.

American Federation of Musicians:   Find the closest Canadian Local and they will tell you how becoming a member can enable you to process paperwork to get a visa for the USA.  This option can often be cheaper especially if you have bookings every month of the year.  Plan early, otherwise you may have to pay a fee to rush the paperwork.

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