Nancy Marano

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VOCAL PERFORMANCE STUDY Back to Basics! Pitch and Sound! discovering your unique voice and musicality, as you develop a real ‘command' of both the Ballad, and the Swing Styles. Repertoire: Getting your act together – and your book! Performance: Philosophy and Phobias, Performance Anxiety and Related Issues. PIANO Basic Keyboard Technique, Scales, Chords, Inversions, Voicings, Reading Skills in Two Clefs, Improvising, Self-Accompaniment Nancy Marano has been lauded as a distinctive musical talent in a New Yorker profile by Whitney Balliett. She has also been profiled by Billy Taylor and Charles Kurault on the exalted CBS Sunday Morning TV program, The Wall Street Journal, Jazz Improv Magazine, and by NPR “Crossover." She has recorded 8 CD's as a leader. And one with the 62 piece Dutch Metropole Orchestra which features the arrangements of Manny Albam. Her other CD's feature Gerry Mulligan, Michel Legrand, Dick Hyman, Roger Kellaway, Claudio Roditi.and has appeared at many international jazz festivals. She is a much sought after clinician internationally, and offers private lessons, workshops and clinics in New York. Nancy was chair of the jazz voice program at William Paterson University for 25 years and taught jazz voice and ensemble at the Manhattan School of Music for 20 years. Among her many successful students is JazzVoice director Alexis Cole. In addition to teaching, Nancy is also available to write unique individual arrangements for singers for performance and recording. She also offers a combination voice and musicianship lesson which is 90 mins for $175. Please contact alexis@jazzvoice.com to arrange this special lesson type.