Neil Semer
Neil Semer
Neil Semer, Adjunct Lecturer; Voice/Musical Theater
- Website: neilsemer.com
Neil Semer's students sing in the most important opera houses around the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Bayreuth Festival, English National Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, et al., and star in Broadway productions. He teaches voice and gives workshops internationally. His main voice studio is in New York, where he works with high-level performers in classical, musical theater, and contemporary styles of music. He also teaches in Toronto, London, Paris, Copenhagen, and throughout Germany. In July–August 2020, he will lead the 24th annual Neil Semer Summer Vocal Institutes in Switzerland and Canada.
His teaching combines principles of Bel Canto, scientific understanding of vocal function and, most importantly, emotional connection to music. Focus is on coordination of the heart, mind, and body. Semer has taught for the Canadian Opera Company, Vancouver Opera, Hawaiian Opera, and Norwegian Opera as well as for the Broadway productions of Miss Saigon and Bombay Dreams. Masterclasses given around the world include the 5th International Congress of Voice Teachers in Helsinki; the first three Annual International Classical Singer Conventions; the Royal Academy of Music and the Association of English Singers and Speakers in London; Danish Actors Association; the Icelandic Voice Teachers Association; two National Conventions of the National Association of German Singing Teachers (Hamburg and Wurzburg); the Leipzig, Hannover, and Wurzburg Hochschules; Swiss Voice Teachers Association in Zurich; Australian NATS Chapters in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, the Melba Trust, the Queensland and Newcastle Conservatoriums, two Canadian Voice Care Foundation Symposia in Toronto and Banff; NATS National Convention in Seattle; NATS Winter and Summer Workshops in Miami, Princeton, Minneapolis, and New York; NATS New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Central Regional Conferences; NATS Chapters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Wisconsin, Orlando, Salt Lake City, Michigan, and Miami; and innumerable universities. In July 2004, he was the keynote speaker and master teacher for the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Convention in Sydney.
Semer has taught on the faculties of the Canadian Opera Company, American Institute of Musical Studies in Austria, New England and Boston Conservatories, Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College, New York University, and Barnard College. He is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music.
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