Performance Singing

PERFORMANCE SINGING™ offers resources for singers: Voice Lessons, Performance & Audition Coaching, Master Classes, and Workshops.

* Voice Lessons: for singers interested in singing musical theater, standards, pop, and light rock. Lessons focus on enhancing the beauty and individuality of your true, natural voice, and on training you to use your voice with versatility, ease, and endurance, without discomfort in the throat. You will work on proper breathing technique, using your whole body as your instrument, developing the all-important "mix voice," and working through any vocal problems and/or bad habits you may have. When appropriate, voice lessons also include Performance Coaching (see below). Visit www.performancesinging.com for all the scoop!

* Performance/Audition Coaching: focuses on the art of song acting, auditioning, and performance for musical theater. The best singers are also great actors who can put words to music and captivate an audience with their story. Bring in your audition songs (and cuts) and work with a Broadway pro to take your auditions to a new level of excellence. Add new songs to your repertoire or build a new one. This work will skyrocket your confidence and your auditions and performances! Discount packages available. Visit www.performancesinging.com for all the scoop!

ABOUT PIERCE PETER BRANDT:
From regional theater to Broadway productions, chorus boy to leading man, Pierce Peter Brandt has been there. He has performed leading and featured roles throughout the USA and Canada in Cameron Mackintosh's original Broadway productions of LES MISERABLES and MARTIN GUERRE (original New York cast), the national company of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, as well as in major musical productions at many of the country's finest professional regional theaters including The Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, American Conservatory Theater, TheatreWorks, Olney Theater Center, Festival Opera, Woodminster Amphitheater, American Musical Theater of San Jose, and many others. He has been a guest soloist with San Jose's Symphony Silicon Valley and the California Pops Orchestra. He is a recipient of two DramaLogue (Backstage West) Awards and a San Francisco Critics Award, as well as numerous accolades from critics and audiences. Pierce has also worked with many of the musical theater industry’s most outstanding professionals, from producers and directors to composers, casting directors, actors, and musicians. Having started out as a child actor, and always an advocate of ongoing training, education, and practice, Pierce has studied and worked with some of the industry's best and has been performing for over 30 years. Pierce enjoys sharing his experience, knowledge, and unique insight with actors and singers of all levels of experience. He is listed in Who's Who in American Theater and is mentioned in the book, 'Letters from Backstage' by Michael Kostroff (Allworth Press).

As a teacher, in addition to giving ongoing private training and coaching, and being the founder of PERFORMANCE SINGING™, Pierce is on the faculty at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and has taught master classes and workshops for adults and teens throughout the country at: TheatreWorks (Redwood City–PaloAlto–Mtn. View, CA), Menlo School (Menlo Park, CA), El Dorado Musical Theatre (Sacramento, CA), Broadway By The Bay (Burlingame, CA), San Francisco's Theatre Bay Area Lecture Series, State University of New York Drama Department, University of Illinois Drama Department, Peninsula Youth Theater (Mountain View, CA), California Theatre Arts (Walnut Creek, CA), School of the Arts (Rochester, NY), Orpheum Theater Summer Institute (Memphis, TN), American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Actors' Academy (Los Gatos/Campbell, CA), Palo Alto High School, and Palo Alto Children's Theater Conservatory (CA). In addition, he has been a member of the Artistic Staff of the Stanford University Department of Drama, and he is a vocal director.

Pierce Peter Brandt is a member of Actors' Equity Association. the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), and Theatre Bay Area.