Charlotte Surkin

Charlotte Surkin is a Professional Voice Trainer and Vocologist currently teaching at Marymount Manhattan College in New York; a private voice instructor at the CAP21 Musical Theatre program and their newly created Professional Training Program; Singing Voice Specialist and Outreach Coordinator at The Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School of Lighthouse International (for the visually impaired), coordinating their Master Class Series, administering on-line content for the music school and teaching voice; and the second alto soloist at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Ms. Surkin previously taught singing at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, Wagner College in Staten Island and Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

Ms. Surkin recently presented a vocal workshop at the Voice Foundation Symposium in Philadelphia. She has also visited Shenyang, China where she gave a Vocal Master Class to the award winning Liaoning Choir.

Charlotte Surkin successfully completed vocology internships at the Grabscheid Voice Center at Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Vox Humana Laboratory at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, both in New York City. Ms. Surkin is also certified in Levels I and II of Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method at the Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah Conservatory. She is a member of the New York Singing Teachers' Association (NYSTA) and the National Association of Singing Teachers. For NYSTA, Ms. Surkin was in the first graduating class of the Core of Knowledge Program. There she studied with master professionals in the areas of Pedagogy, Vocal Health, Anatomy, Acoustical Physics and Repertoire.

Ms. Surkin has performed the alto solos in over 30 major oratorios with orchestra in the Tri-State area, including 2 performances of the Messiah in Carnegie Hall as well as the Kennedy Center. Some of these include performances of all of the great Bach works including the St. John and St. Matthew Passion, the Magnificat; the B Minor the Christmas Oratorio and several cantatas. She has also performed the Choral Fantasy, the Mass in C and the Ninth Symphony by Beethoven, the Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Judas Maccabeus by Handel, the Mass in B Minor and Mass in Time of War by Haydn; King David by Honegger, the Elijah by Mendelssohn, the Coronation Mass; Requiem, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore by Mozart; the Stabat Mater and Messe Solennelle by Rossini, the Verdi Requiem and the Vivaldi Gloria.

Ms. Surkin's operatic repertoire is quite extensive as well, performing in regional companies as well as locally in everything from Baroque to Contemporary operas. Recently, she had the pleasure of performing the leading role of Fanny in Elie Wiesenthal's Angel Levine and the First Operator in the world premiere opera Sorry Wrong Number by Jack Beeson, with the Center for Contemporary Opera.

Charlotte Surkin's CD Uptown, Downtown on Studio 21 label features blues and jazz inspired songs that are written by contemporary American Composers: William Bolcom, John Musto, Jack Gottlieb and Lou Rodgers.

Ms. Surkin holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Temple University, an MA in music from New York University and a certificate in music from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

Visit Ms. Surkin's website at : www.charlottesurkin.com

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