Italian-American soprano Dr. Stacey Mastrian has three decades of experience as a much-lauded educator. She is the owner of Mastroianni Musica™ and founder of Compagnia degli Eloquenti™, Mindful Vocal Engineering™, Singing with Ease™, Sounding the Voice Within™, and Vocal Freedom for Life™.
Sourcing from a multitude of modalities, Dr. Mastrian focuses on vocal health and the connections to the mind and the body; her work is rooted in systems thinking. She facilitates holistic, client-centered learning through a process she calls Endogenous Education™. She is also a certified Franklin Method® Level III Movement Educator and Franklin Method® Lower Back and Pelvic Floor Trainer, who combines functional anatomy and Dynamic Neurocognitive Imagery™ with voice education, and she is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator.
Dr. Mastrian enables her clients to access the complete package: across styles and genres, they all make significant technical progress and are known for their expressive interpretive skills. They deepen the understanding of their own breathing mechanisms and overall vocal instruments, and those who teach or direct hone their ability to convey their knowledge with clarity and efficiency.
Her students have a phenomenal success rate for casting and for college acceptances at multiple schools. They are successful as soloists and in leading roles, as educators and conductors, on tour and in the recording studio, when applying for entrance to training programs, in gaining acceptance to summer programs, in winning competitions, in obtaining scholarship funding, and in terms of personal development. Her roster has included such talented artists as GRAMMY nominee Maggie Rose, Tina Muñoz Pandya, Alec Lai, and Gale Cecelia.
Dr. Mastrian has been a Fulbright fellow to Italy and has sung in over two dozen languages and around the world at venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in NY, the Kennedy Center in DC, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. As a teacher, she has been Assistant Professor of Voice and Coordinator of Voice/Opera at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College, as well as a professor American University, Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Preparatory, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and University of Maryland College Park. She is also the Resident Vocal Technician at Keystone Opera's Summer Intensive program.
A firm believer in lifelong learning, Dr. Mastrian is deeply committed to ongoing self-education and to sharing knowledge as both a teacher and a performer. Compassion and structure are cornerstones of her work. She currently maintains a select private voice studio online and in person, coaches Italian diction and audition and presentation preparation, teaches functional anatomy, and gives performances, masterclasses, lectures, and workshops worldwide.
Sourcing from a multitude of modalities, Dr. Mastrian focuses on vocal health and the connections to the mind and the body; her work is rooted in systems thinking. She facilitates holistic, client-centered learning through a process she calls Endogenous Education™. She is also a certified Franklin Method® Level III Movement Educator and Franklin Method® Lower Back and Pelvic Floor Trainer, who combines functional anatomy and Dynamic Neurocognitive Imagery™ with voice education, and she is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator.
Dr. Mastrian enables her clients to access the complete package: across styles and genres, they all make significant technical progress and are known for their expressive interpretive skills. They deepen the understanding of their own breathing mechanisms and overall vocal instruments, and those who teach or direct hone their ability to convey their knowledge with clarity and efficiency.
Her students have a phenomenal success rate for casting and for college acceptances at multiple schools. They are successful as soloists and in leading roles, as educators and conductors, on tour and in the recording studio, when applying for entrance to training programs, in gaining acceptance to summer programs, in winning competitions, in obtaining scholarship funding, and in terms of personal development. Her roster has included such talented artists as GRAMMY nominee Maggie Rose, Tina Muñoz Pandya, Alec Lai, and Gale Cecelia.
Dr. Mastrian has been a Fulbright fellow to Italy and has sung in over two dozen languages and around the world at venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in NY, the Kennedy Center in DC, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. As a teacher, she has been Assistant Professor of Voice and Coordinator of Voice/Opera at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College, as well as a professor American University, Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Preparatory, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and University of Maryland College Park. She is also the Resident Vocal Technician at Keystone Opera's Summer Intensive program.
A firm believer in lifelong learning, Dr. Mastrian is deeply committed to ongoing self-education and to sharing knowledge as both a teacher and a performer. Compassion and structure are cornerstones of her work. She currently maintains a select private voice studio online and in person, coaches Italian diction and audition and presentation preparation, teaches functional anatomy, and gives performances, masterclasses, lectures, and workshops worldwide.
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D.M.A. voice performance, University of Maryland College Park M.M. opera performance, Maryland Opera Studio, University of Maryland College Park B.M. vocal performance, summa cum laude, The Catholic University of America TRAINING PROGRAMS The Alba Method/Alba Emoting (acting teaching apprenticeship in progress) The Franklin Method®
Italian language study at numerous universities and schools (CEFR Level C2) Middlebury College German for Singers Program National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program SongFest at Pepperdine University AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Art song with a particular focus on 20th-century Italian song Diction with an extensive emphasis on Italian diction Repertoire & Interpretation with the ability to teach acting skills and guide singers and other humans to clear, natural communication Twentieth-century and experimental music with years of research and training on Italian and American works and compositions from around the world that utilize electronics Vocal health and pedagogy with in-depth knowledge of embodied anatomy, mindfulness, self-compassion, trauma/resiliency, and voice science For a list of Dr. Mastrian's previous engagements, click here. For additional information about Dr. Mastrian, please visit www.staceymastrian.com. |
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“…as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
The purpose of education…is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions….
To ask questions of the universe.”
- James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers,” 1963