Wake Up Your Ears

4 Tuesdays starting July 11, 7:30-9PM ET $120

Join Michelle and a small group of students every week for a month to work on the aural skills from Michelle's Wake Up Your Ears Curriculum!! Practice and Own it! $120 for four 90 min sessions.

If you’re a jazz singer who is ready to take it to the next level of “hearing the changes” this class is for you! Work on improvisation and scat singing in an easy fun Ear based environment. Michelle utilizes fun and creative vocal exercises that you sing with her live. Learn more about:

· 2-5-1’s

· The Blues

· Modal Jazz

· Rhythm Changes

· Rhythmic articulation

· Scat syllables

· Chord analysis

· Song Form

· Transcriptions

For over 25 years Michelle Mailhot has been one of the most sought-after Jazz singers around. During her celebrated career, she has shared the stage with such jazz greats as Mel Torme, Max Roach, Sheila Jordan, Billy Stritch, Sandy Patti, Liza Minnelli, Dr. Billy Taylor, and more. In 2004 she won a Drama Desk Award for her work in the Off-Broadway show Toxic Audio: Loudmouth.

Michelle is also a highly-regarded session singer for radio and television commercials. Her acclaimed solo CD “Happy Madness” is available on iTunes and major music streaming services.

In addition to her extraordinary performance career as a jazz vocalist, Michelle Mailhot is a distinguished music educator. With both a bachelor’s and master’s degree, Michelle has been a professor of music at both Valencia and Rollins colleges for the better part of a decade. There she has taught music theory, sight-singing, ear training, private vocal instruction and directs a jazz choir.