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Three one-hour private singing lessons with Bill Reed.

Bill Reed has dedicated his professional life to guiding singers in their quest to realize their potential as performing artists. Born into a show business family, Bill earned a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is a proud member of the Badger Ice Hockey Hall of Fame. He completed his studies at Columbia University, where he earned a doctorate in vocal music education. After a busy and rewarding career as a college professor and concert singer, Bill established a private voice studio in New York City, where for the past 25 years he has been privileged to work with singers from all over the world whose specialties have ranged from opera to pop and rock, and Broadway to folk and country. He has consulted on a number of Hollywood movies and commercial recordings, and his students have performed at the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera, many European opera houses, and in hundreds of Broadway shows. Bill's students have won Oscar Hammerstein, MAC, Emmy and Tony awards. Bill has also been teaching singing at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC for the past 25 years and is a founder of the acclaimed musical theater program there. In Vermont, Bill's adult students have had leading roles in numerous local community and professional musical theater productions. His college and school-aged students have performed extensively in school productions and have gone on to study singing and musical theater at many of the most prestigious colleges, universities, and conservatories in the country. The Vermont All State scholarship competition consistently features Bill's students among the winners: three of this year's finalists, including the first place singer, were Bill's students. A number of Bill's Vermont students are working professionals and have recently performed in leading roles at the New York City Opera and on Broadway. Bill is in demand nationally as a clinician and has been invited to give workshops at many colleges, universities, and meetings of professional organizations.

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Lessons must be scheduled before September 1, 2010.