Marcie Ley
Categories: Voice
Profile
Singer and Voice Instructor with experience in varied performing genres. Promotes safe and effective vocal techniques and encourages artistic growth and musical literacy. Committed to ongoing professional training and growth in the craft. Devoted to encouraging creative expression and confidence in students of all ages.
Experience
Private Vocal Instructor - 2007- Present
Teaching private vocal students from age 6 to adult.
Thurman White Academy Of The Performing Arts vocal workshop - masterclass 2020
Repertoire class preparing Art Songs for their Solo and Ensemble Festival.
Vegas city opera summer opera academy - masterclass - 2019
Worked with singers of varying levels on operatic repertoire, including diction, vocal technique, and stage presence.
Sin City Opera Camp instructor - 2017
Private vocal lessons and preparing solo and ensemble repertoire for performance.
Palm Springs Opera Outreach — 2016
Opera in the Schools is a two-week program that impacts more than 25,000 kids in grades K-12. Students participate in 45 minute, interactive, light-hearted outreach assemblies. Students learn classical music terms, vocabulary, about the different languages that opera incorporates, and how opera impacts the world of music today!
Sin City Opera international Children\'s Concert & Masterclass - 2015
International Vocal Workshop for The Colorado Springs Children\'s Chorale, and Talent Advancement Program (TAP) performers from Sister City, Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia and local Las Vegas Students.
Education
West Virginia University Bachelor of Music in Opera Performance 1993
Performance Experience
Soprano Marcie Ley has received critical acclaim for her performances across the United States and Europe.
Notable roles performed include Violetta in La Traviata, Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Mimi in La Boheme, Liu in Turandot, Marguerite in Faust, and Nedda in Pagliacci, with numerous regional opera companies in the USA, and also in Europe at The Arena di Verona in Italy, Opera National de Montpellier in France, and in Germany with Theater Dortmund, Oper Leipzig, and the Musiktheater im Revier.
Skills
30 years of professional stage experience
Proficiency in foreign languages including German, Italian, French and Latin.
Knowledge of Alexander Technique
Passion for research, learning, and self-improvement, and passing that knowledge on to my students