Vocal Worskshop with Jean Strazdes

This voice class will focus on breathing, vocal resonance, exercises and understanding of register transitions.

It  is open to all who want to explore the use of their singing voice. The session will be up to two hours long with a maximum of 10 people, a fee of  $20. Click above to purchase tickets online.

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Jean Strazdes is Seaglass' Founding Artistic Director (1993), the choral director as well as director of the Seatones.

She  earned a Bachelor of Music and Art diploma from Hartt College of Music  in Hartford, Connecticut, a Masters of Music at the Cleveland Institute  of Music and did postgraduate doctoral work in Graz, Austria.

In  her own right as a mezzo-soprano, Ms. Strazdes has performed  extensively in the United States and Europe and toured Greece in the  role of Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. In St. Petersburg, Russia, she  sang the leading role of Madam Flora in Menotti's opera, The Medium, in  celebration of Catherine the Great's theatre in the Hermitage museum.

After  teaching for a handful of years at Trinity College in Connecticut, Jean  came to Ogunquit with the intention of traveling a few days a week to  the college. Fate ruled otherwise. In 1993, she assembled a group of  choristers she later christened “The Seaglass Chorale.” Since then the  non-auditioned chorale has performed all over southern Maine as well as  in Italy, Austria, Hungary, and at the National Cathedral in Washington,  D.C. In November 2004, the chorale joined the Paul Madore Chorale and  sixty musicians from the North Shore Symphony Orchestra at Salem,  Massachusetts to perform Brahms' Requiem.

When  not immersed in Seaglass Events, Jean provides private voice lessons  and serves as adjunct faculty (voice) at Phillips-Exeter Academy in  Exeter, New Hampshire.