Gina Latimerlo's love of teaching began early when her older brother would trick her into doing his homework by pretending to need her to tutor him, and then it continued to grow as she corrected her first grade teacher's spelling on the board (which we're sure her teacher enjoyed). Her desire to sing emerged recognizably at age 4 when she often drew herself in front of a microphone.
After practicing for many years in the shower, Gina began performing in 1992 in youth musicals. She then went on to achieve a Bachelors degree in the fields of Music, Theatre, and English, and was soon credentialed to teach in all three subjects. Gina's educational pursuits have currently culminated in a Masters in Teaching Music.
Always wanting to know more so that she can teach more, she has additionally trained with the best in voice, musical theatre, opera, jazz, pop, and drama in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York through numerous professional training programs, as well as private lessons.
Gina has been teaching and directing all ages since 1995 with experience at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, as well as at the collegiate and local theatre level - at San Francisco Bay Area locations such as the Young Actors Theatre Camp, Broadway by the Bay, Hillbarn Theatre, Notre Dame de Namur University, and more. She and her husband, Eli, have also written and produced shows through their non-profit production company designed to showcase SF Bay Area writers and talent. As a writer, Gina's plays have been produced locally as both staged readings and fully produced plays at a number of locations.
Gina has been thoroughly enjoying instructing voice and acting through private lessons in her Latimerlo Studio since 1998 and has a highly successful clientele. Her students, have, in addition to local successes, signed with national talent agents and record labels, toured across the nation, and are routinely accepted into top-notch commercial music conservatories and theatre/musical theatre programs across the country. They can be seen performing in touring companies and on cruise ships, as well as, joyfully, on Broadway.
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Lisa Popeil is one of America's foremost singing experts and has an international reputation as an innovator in the technique and pedagogy of vocal styles.
She holds a Master's Degree in Voice from California Institute of the Arts and has taught professionally for over 35 years.
Creator of the Voiceworks® Method and "The Total Singer" instructional DVD, Lisa brings her enthusiasm and long experience to the training of singers around the world. Her Voiceworks Studio is located in Sherman Oaks, (Los Angeles) California.
Beginning with piano lessons at age 4 and voice training at 6, Lisa has sung in every style including: opera, musical theater, jazz, pop, rock, R&B, and country and her voice has been featured on commercials, television and film. In the 1980's, her self-titled album "Lisa Popeil" was a Billboard Top Album Pick. She has also recorded and performed with Frank Zappa and 'Weird Al' Yankovic. In 2006, she received the LA Music Award for 'Career Achievement in Vocal Instruction'.
Lisa has appeared on 'LA Ink', 'Home & Family Show', 'Idol Tonight' and 'Starting Over', 'Biography' and Fox News, over 40 radio programs and featured in magazines including Music Connection, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Karaoke Scene, Singer & Musician and Journal of Singing.
She presents workshops and research papers at prestigious voice conferences around the world as an authority on belting and commercial vocal styles. In addition to many publications, Ms. Popeil is also contributing to the 'Oxford Handbook of Singing' and 'Oxford Handbook of Music Education,.”
Lisa is a member of NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing), is on the Advisory Board for the the Voice Foundation, AFTRA (American Federation of TV and Radio Artists), and is a writer-publisher member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers & Publishers) and a voting member of NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences). She is an invited member of the Iberoamerican Foundation of Singing & Speaking Voice and also the British Voice Association (BVA).
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