AUDITION

There should be a clearly developed chest voice that allows the singer to have a speech-like mix in the middle and a solid mix-belt. Ideally, the head voice is well developed (females) and there is no residual air. This will, of course, vary student to student and we get that as long as the acting and dance are top-notch. Most importantly, there should be no obvious register breaks. If you have to transition/flip to head voice from chest-mix for a high note, it is not a good song for an audition. If you can only carry heavy-chest into your belt it is also not good. We want to see you developing the ability to transition into a solid chest-dominant mix since the vast majority of modern musicals live in mix land... Equally at home in classical and Contemporary Commercial Music Styles (Musical Theatre, Pop, Rock, Country, R), Matthew Edwards has performed over thirty roles in musical theatre and opera with companies including Tri-Cities Opera, Ash Lawn Opera Festival, New Jersey Opera,..