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Mostly Mozart Summer of Singing - May 23-June 24
Enrollment/course offerings | Tuition/fees | Instructors
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 The Summer Vocal Institute at St. Petersburg College is an intensive five-week training and performance program for aspiring college prep vocal students and college and semi-professional graduate students who need practical stage and performance coaching.
Master classes taught by vocal clinicians and resident SPC voice faculty will emphasize study and performance of Mozart’s operatic arias and art songs, Italian diction, stage deportment and dance movement.
Auditions will be held for participants in an opera workshop. These students will focus on scenes from Mozart operas and will be perform them fully-staged and costumed on June 24 in the state-of-the-art Music Center on the St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus. The institute utilizes the state-of-the-art Music Center on the St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus for classes, workshops, seminars and performances.
St. Petersburg College School of Fine Arts gratefully acknowledges the Florida Suncoast Opera Guild for its most generous support of the Summer Vocal Institute.
Enrollment/course offerings
Enrollment in applied voice is open to all aspiring vocal students. However, students must obtain signatures by Fine Arts staff in HS (Humanities building) 118 as the first step in registration and enrollment. Classes are offered for credit through SPC and enrollment is limited. Students should register early to secure a place with instructors Marilyn Michael or Jason Burke for applied voice. High school and beginning vocal students are encouraged to study art songs in English; more advanced students will focus on Mozart Lieder and operatic arias. Applied voice lessons address breathing techniques, authentic voice production, tension release, flexibility and expansion of vocal range. Workshops are included in the tuition and fee package to help with vocal performance practice, dance and movement instruction, vocal coaching, Italian language diction, audition techniques and career development.
Applied Voice – for vocal performance majors (3 credits)
MVV 1411 - Michael
MVV 2421 - Michael
Applied Voice – for music majors (2 credits)
MVV 1311 - Hyer, Michael
MVV 2321 - Hyer, Michael
Applied Voice – for enrichment (1 or 2 credits)
MVV 1011 - Burke, Hyer, Michael
MVV 2021 - Burke, Hyer, Michael
Enrollment in these sections includes one-hour private voice lesson per week in addition to the weekly performance master class and seminars. The lessons are by appointment only and must be scheduled with the instructor. Workshop/Master classes schedule tba.
Tuition/Fees
Applied Voice: $94.08 per credit hour ($188.16 for 2 credits; $282.24 for 3 credits)
Required lab fees:
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$120 (MVV 1311, 1411, 2321, 2421)
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$120 (MVV 1011 and 2021, 1 credit)
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$240 (MVV 1011 and 2021, 2 credits)
Tuition for Opera Workshop (MUO 2501): $94.08 (by audition only, counts as an elective course)
Instructors
Professional instructors include:
 Warren Jaworski, USF Chair of Voice Department/Guest clinician
Warren Jaworski has sung recitals with the Columbia Artists Management community Concert Series and numerous orchestra engagements throughout the country, including the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York. Jaworski has sung as soloist in the Bach St. John Passion under Robert Shaw with the Detroit Symphony at Meadowbrook, as well as recording with Fred Waring, and performed in the Roger Wagner Chorale with the Los Angeles Symphony. He has appeared with many professional opera and musical comedy repertoire companies, in television commercials and the national premiere broadcast of Dave Brubeck’s “A Celebration Mass: To Hope.” In addition to engagements with the Miami Opera, he has performed with the Miami, Tampa and Clearwater oratorio societies; choral Masterworks series with the Florida Orchestra; Palm Beach Masterworks Series; Clearwater Bach Festival; Bach Festival of Central Florida, Messiah Association of Winter Haven as well as performing as bass soloist in Verdi’s “Requiem” under the direction of Daniel Moe and the Key Chorale in Sarasota. In summer 1989, he studied and performed at the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart, Germany.
Jaworski has directed professional opera productions and conducted opera, vocal, and choral workshops, and clinics, as well as judged vocal competitions throughout Florida, Michigan, Indiana, California, Ohio, Oregon, and Delaware. He is past director, general manager, and producer of the Northern Indiana Opera Association and has published articles in The National Association of Teachers of Singing Journal.
He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from the University of Michigan and a doctorate from Indiana University. He studied with Jean Deis, Elizabeth Mannion and Richard Miller and coached with Carl Fuerstner, Elmar Burrows and Walter Bricht. He is a member of Actor’s Equity, National Association of Teachers of Singing, National Opera Association, and Florida Vocal Association. He is Associate Professor of Music and department chairman at the University of South Florida, teaching voice and song literature. He has been creating a video course on the Art Song in English-Speaking Countries by researching on location in Canada, England and Australia. In 2006, Jaworski was awarded “The Hispanic Pathways Award” for his work in developing a DVD course in Latin American art song with Patricia Caicedo of Barcelona, Spain and promoting Spanish and Latin American art song at USF.
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 Joseph Mechavich, Conductor/coach
Joseph Mechavich is extolled for the exceptional artistry and infectious energy and joy he brings to every performance. He serves as Principal Conductor and Music Director for Kentucky Opera and has presided over performances of “Il barbiere di Siviglia” at The Washington National Opera, “Porgy and Bess”at Deutsche Oper Berlin, “Madama Butterfly”at New York City Opera, and “Cendrillon” at Aspen Music Festival. This season he will conduct “L’elisir d’amore” and “Madama Butterfly for Kentucky Opera,” a concert with the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, concerts with The Florida Orchestra and make his debut with Calgary Opera conducting “Aida.” He has presided over opera productions across the country including Des Moines Metro Opera, Utah Opera, Tulsa Opera, Pine Mountain Music Festival and Spokane Opera and has collaborated with other companies including Austin Lyric Opera, New Orleans Opera, Mobile Opera, Nevada Opera and Berkshire Opera.
Mechavich has appeared with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, Waterbury Symphony, Virginia Symphony and the Sarasota Orchestra and has collaborated on ballet productions with the Orlando Ballet, Nutmeg Ballet (CT), and Sarasota Ballet. A frequent recitalist, he also has worked as a pianist in partnership with members of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Virginia Symphony and the Orlando Philharmonic.
From 2004-10, Mechavich held the position of Principal Conductor for Opera Birmingham, conducting the company’s productions of “Turandot,” “Madama Butterfly,” “La Boheme,” “La Traviata,” “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “L’elisir d’amore,” “Aida, La Cenerentola,” and “Il barbiere di Siviglia.” Mechavich completed his studies at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and The Yale University School of Music. He has held the positions of Assistant Conductor, Chorus Master, and Coach for Minnesota Opera for five seasons, Director of Music for Orlando Opera for two years and Cover Conductor for four seasons with The Santa Fe Opera.
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 Cornelius White, tenor
Cornelius White has performed a variety of genres ranging from classical and opera to musical theater and jazz. A graduate of the Hartt College of Music, he began his performance career 25 years ago with the Broadway revival of “Porgy and Bess” at Radio City Music Hall (directed by Tony Award winners Jack O'Brien and Choreographer, George Faison), followed by the very first production of the work at the Metropolitan Opera Company with opera legends soprano Grace Bumbry, bass-baritone Simon Estes and artistic director/conductor James Levine.
It was a performance of the role of Sportin' Life in “Porgy and Bess” at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, which initiated 175 critically acclaimed performances of the role throughout the U.S. and Canada. White toured internationally with performances at the Theatre de Chatelet in Paris, Prince Albert Hall in London, Deutsche Oper in Munich and Theatre Des Westens in Berlin. He debuted at New York City Opera, which followed with the Grammy nominated recording of Anthony Davis' “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” and Linda Twine's retrospective revue “Harlem Symphony” for MBS Television in Japan.
He relocated to Tampa in 2002, and taught music at Ruth Eckerd Hall's Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute, as well as a performance consultant for young artists. He returned to performing in 2005, joining a cast of "Broadway's Finest" for Encores! production of “Purlie” at City Center in New York City in honor of the late Ossie Davis. In 2006, he received the Individual Artist Enhancement Grant for the Tampa Arts Council and the Florida State Department of Cultural Affairs. White also founded the Creative Mind Company for artist promotion, development and booking.
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.jpg) John Hyer, Baritone and SPC Applied Voice Instructor
John Hyer has taught applied voice and humanities at SPC for more than 12 years. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in voice from Wilkes University and a Master’s Degree in vocal performance from the Juilliard School.
Hyer has had a very extensive performance career as a concert and operatic baritone soloist. Among his credits include soloist in Handel’s “Messiah,” Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis,” Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” and Mozart’s “Requiem.”
Hyer has performed concerts abroad in Paris, Florence, Rome, Assisi, Vienna, as well as in Scotland and England.
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 Jason Burke, Opera Scene Director/Instructor
As a performer, Jason has appeared across the country in the national tour of “The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber” as a principal vocalist. Other theatrical highlights include productions of “Phantom of the Opera,”“Moon Over Buffalo,” “Tommy,” “My Fair Lady,” “Damn Yankees,” “She Loves Me,” “The Music Man,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,”
I Shall Not Be Moved,”the opera “McTeague,” “Rose-Marie”and “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” at the Kennedy Center. Additionally, Jason has performed with the New York City Opera in “Acis & Galatea” and “I Capuletti e I Montecchi” and the musical “Sweeney Todd” with the New York Philharmonic.
Burke has had the opportunity to sing with several orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, The Cincinnati Pops, the Indianapolis Pops, the Detroit Pops, the Florida Orchestra and the Bloomington Pops. Special concerts included the premiere of “Fantasia 2000” at Carnegie Hall and Beethoven's Symphony No.9 on the eve of the millennium. A frequent soloist throughout the Bay, he has performed in “The Messiah,” Rutter's “Mass for the Children” and Schubert's “Mass in G.”
Recordings include: “Sweeney Todd: LIVE,” “Die Liebe Der Danae,” “Rose-Marie,” “Puttin' On the Ritz,” “The Magical Music of Disney,” “The Music Man,” “The Stephen Paulus Christmas Album” and “American Voices vol. 1-3.”
In March 2010, Jason was a finalist in the American Traditions Vocal Competition in Savannah, GA. He also is active as a Music Director and is currently developing the USF Vocal Ambassadors, a vocal outreach group. Burke serves as Artistic Administrator for the Richard Zielinski Singers, the Project Manager for the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, and also functions as Festival Coordinator for the USF Festival of Voices. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Voice from Indiana University School of Music.
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 Marilyn Michael, Vocal Institute Director
Marilyn Michael is coordinator of SPC vocal studies and has served as a full-time instructor/facilitator in voice, opera workshop and Honors Western Humanities II since 1994.
Michael's career launched when she was guest alto soloist at the Bachakadamie Summer Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, and performed four German Lieder recitals at Toynbee Hall in London, England. Subsequent seasons produced solo engagements ranging from Bach to Mahler, including the “St. John Passion” and “St. Matthew Passion” by Bach, more than 24 performances of Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”in Germany, Honniger's “King David” in Duisburg and Dortmund, Germany; Handel's “Messiah” and “Dixit Dominus” at Royal Albert Hall, London, and “Das Lied von der Erde” at the Mahler Sommerfest in Kassel, Germany. Other highlights of her career include Mahler's Symphony No. 2 and the NPR broadcast performance and tour of Mozart’s “Requiem” with the London Bach Choir.
In December 2009, Dr. Michael was invited by the Philharmonic Society of Orenburg, Russia to perform as soloist with the Divertissment Ensemble singing repertoire from Richard Strauss Op. 10 and duets in Russian of César Cui and from the opera “The Queen of Spades” by Tchaikovsky. In addition, she gave a vocal master class at the student center in coordination with Orenburg State University. She recently debuted at Carnegie Hall as alto soloist in the “Messiah.” She also debuted the first solo vocal album on the Erasmus label (Netherlands) entitled “Von ewiger Liebe,” songs of Johannes Brahms with famed Dutch pianist Robert Moeling.
In October 2006, she was invited to be a soloist in concerts at L’Église de la Madeleine and the American Cathedral in Paris. Michael studied with Dalton Baldwin, Inci Bashar and Norman Paige. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal performance from the University of Kansas and a doctorate in education from the University of Sarasota. In 2007, she earned yet another master’s degree in education with a concentration in postsecondary and adult education from Capella University.
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 Nancy Smith, Dance Instructor and Academic Chair, Humanities/Fine Arts
Nancy Smith has been the Academic Chair for the Humanities/Fine Arts Department at SPC since July 2008. She is founder, director and choreographer for CoMotion Dance Theatre, the resident dance company of the college. CoMotion Dance Theatre is in its 25th season. With CoMotion, she has approached many styles of modern dance, including aerial dance, working primarily with trapeze. In addition to her work with dance performance, she has been a professor of Humanities since 2002.
Her educational background includes a BFA in Dance, an MS in Heath Education and extensive graduate work in Humanities. Recent publications include “Tampa Bay Arts Guide: a Guide to the Visual and Performing Arts” published by McGraw-Hill and co-authored with Marilyn Michael
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Contact us
For more information contact Dr. Marilyn Michael, Summer Vocal Institute Director, 727-341-4679. |
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