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Mary Saunders Barton— Musical Theatre Voice Teacher, Actress, Cabaret Performer and Workshop Leader

Musical Theatre Voice Teacher

The Voice Studio 853 7th Ave, NYC. Professor Emeritus Musical Theatre Voice and Voice Pedagogy, Penn State University.

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  • “

    Mary Saunders gives women a technique for singing that readies them to live and work in today's musical theatre. She gets results and does so with grace and clarity. This is a great teacher.

    —Craig Carnelia, Broadway composer/lyricist, renowned acting teacher

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    Mary Saunders is without doubt one of the most articulate and effective voices in this rapidly emerging and still evolving field.

    —Gregory Berg, NATS Journal of Singing

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    Wow! What an exciting couple of days! I felt like you invested your workshop for our students with as much energy and enthusiasm and focus as you had given at the national convention in front of people from all over the world.

    —Marilyn Govich, Oklahoma

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2018 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

I had the honor of presenting the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute Lifetime Achievement Award to Mary Saunders Barton at the CCM Institute 2018. Congratulations, Mary!  Matt Edwards

 

 

Cross-Training in the Voice Studio: A Balancing Act

 After years of collaboration at Penn State University,  Norman Spivey and I have written a book. It's an inside view of our applied studios and the benefits of the cross training process with classical and musical theatre students.

 

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April 2017 retirement tribute

On June 19, 2017 nearly 100 graduates of the PSU Musical Theatre BFA gathered in person and/or via video at Shapeshifter Lab in Park Slope, Brooklyn,to offer a deeply moving tribute to Mary in appreciation of her on the occasion of her retirement.They sang, they sang, they...

Shapeshifter Lab performance
 

Bel Canto Can Belto

 

 

 

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    (Reviewing "Teaching Women to Sing Musical Theatre", Gregory Berg said)...a dynamic tool designed to stimulate thinking about a tremendously exciting field and an emerging pedagogy. Mary Saunders is to be commended for her superlative work in the genre and for putting this DVD together with such evident thought and care. 

    —Gregory Berg, NATS Journal of Singing, reviewing "Teaching Women to Sing Musical Theatre"

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