9740 Grand Ave S., Suite B-45, Bloomington, MN 55420, US
About
HISTORY
TwinCities Vocal Arts, a private studio, began in the fall of 1986 in the West Bank Theatre District of Minneapolis. The curriculum included private lessons, coaching, group classes, recitals, small and original, musical revue student performances, engagement of other instructors and the development of Vocal Arts Players.
As time progressed the opportunity to move into Hennepin Center for the Arts began in the early nineties where the same activities continued until 2004. With changes in the downtown area, Hennepin Center and the economy, our space changed and TC Vocal Arts is now located in Bloomington MN.
Studio space for lessons and coaching.
All group classes, recitals, and other activities or performances will be held in Tcva's new space or other suitable venues when necessary. Occasionally Instructors with appropriate expertise could also be presented. The current space is in the lower level of a building with public restrooms, elevator/stairs service, with a table and table/chair lunch area on the second floor. The location is 5 minutes off 35W at the intersection of 98th and Lyndale. There is ample free parking and two Metro Bus lines close by.
Angela May - Instructor
For over thirty five years, Angela May has been an integral part of the Music and Theatre communities of the Twin Cities. Her experience includes being a singer-performer, musician, arranger, piano accompanist, Music Director, staging/choreography,Vocal Coach and Artistic Director/Instructor of TC Vocal Arts.
Her study began at the age of 5 with MacPhail School of Music, in piano and dance, 7 years of flute lessons playing as 1st chair through junior and High School. Lessons at Traficante Accordion School, led to teaching and competition playing with Oxboro Accordion School. She had always been singing from an early age and studied voice and piano at the University of Minnesota, with other theatre classes and activities.
Angela sang in the Opera Theatre, and was also the Technical Director Assistant/Costumer in the scene shop for opera performances. She performed on the original UofM Showboat serving as Music Director/Pianist for all summer performances.
While at the UofM she played accordion and piano for director one-acts, theatre classes, musicals, and participated in several theatre projects and programs, as a musician or singer.
Some Venues of varied experience were:
Seven summers as a performer, Music Director, vocal coach and 'show' pianist at the Stagecoach Opera House for more than a dozen shows of Melodrama and musical Olios, scoring and playing piano under dialogue, and teaching/arranging the cast's music.
Angela has worked in a musical capacity at the Phipps Center for the Arts, Theatre in a Nutshell, Diamond Jim's, Normandale College, Theatre in the Round and Apple Valley High School, among others.
She has taught voice at the Minneapolis Technical College, Bloomington School of Music, and her private studio TwinCities Vocal Arts for many years.
Angela's students, have sung in dance bands, folk music ensembles, opera companies, compose their own music to sing with their guitar, amateur and professional thespians who have performed here in the Twin Cities and other areas, and people who are simply on an adventure of discovering their singing voice to see where it might lead them.
Her teaching experience is eclectic and open to anyone who would like to sing, or sing better. Her teaching style is healthy, patient and inviting.
Angela May is a past member of the West Bank Business Association, Minnesota Music Academy, the local Musician's Union, Thursday Musical, MN Citizens for the Arts and a member of NATS.
