Victoria Gozzi

Style: Pop; Opera; Classical; Musical Theatre

Title: Artistic Director

Bio: Tory Gozzi holds a Masters of Music in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi. She also holds a teaching certification in contemporary commercial music styles through Shenandoah University's CCM Vocal Institute (Somatic Voicework™ - The LoVetri Method). Tory has done professional vocal work in the Connecticut/New York region for twenty years and currently serves as cantor and choir director at St. Marguerite Church in Brookfield, Connecticut as well as the artistic director of the Newtown Centre of Classical Ballet & Voice in Newtown, Connecticut. She trained in vocal pedagogy under both Dr. Christopher Shelt and Dr. Christopher Arneson. She is trained in the Bel Canto singing pedagogy as well as in choral pedagogy, music theory, composition, sight-singing, and diction, and her musical knowledge encompasses a variety of Broadway, pop/rock, and classical song styles as well as church music genres including hymns, contemporary, and high church music. While at Belhaven, she completed a two and a half year paid internship as a section leader and soloist at Briarwood Methodist Church and took part in a partnership arts program that took international music/dance ministry trips to various cultures around the world; through this partnership, she worked in the African countries of Zambia and Uganda and in the South American country of Peru. While at Westminster, she was privileged to be a member of the Symphonic Choir with whom she sang "Brahms' Requiem" at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia and "The Messiah" at Lincoln Center and "The Resurrection Symphony" at Carnegie Hall in New York. She has performed in "Tosca" with New Jersey Opera, "Alcina" with Westminster Opera, and "The Old Maid and the Thief" and "The Gondoliers" with Belhaven Opera. She was the soloist for the CD "Way of the Cross" and is featured on the CD "Connecticut Voices for Heroes" with “Heart of One” as a tribute to the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims. For more information, please visit www.nccballetandvoice.com or her personal website torygozzi.com.

Voice Type: Soprano

Music Styles Taught: Pop; Opera; Classical; Musical Theatre

Availability: I have a wait-list for private lessons; I offer lessons in a group environment

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