Music Lessons at NESPA!
We offer in-person and virtual lessons for children and adults. Sign up for a trial lesson today! Email Kelly Walsh at nespa@comcast.net for more information. Our Music Center offers lessons in voice, piano, guitar, cello and clarinet.
We offer in-person and virtual lessons for children and adults. Sign up for a trial lesson today! Email Kelly Walsh at nespa@comcast.net for more information. Our Music Center offers lessons in voice, piano, guitar, cello and clarinet.
Sarah Mitchell, soprano, has been an active performer throughout the greater Boston area for the past nine years. A lover of musical theater, she has also music directed several shows, including 42nd Street, Peter Pan, In the Heights, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Little Mermaid, as well as directed high school choirs, madrigal groups, and Christmas programs. Sarah is a certified music educator in the state of Massachusetts, grades K-12, and has six years of experience as a high school and middle school choir director, as well as multiple years as a private voice and piano instructor. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Education from Western Michigan University, where she studied classical singing, early music, choral methods, opera, musical theater singing techniques, piano, cabaret, and pedagogy. Sarah enjoys exploring a variety of singing styles for her students and varied approaches to music education rooted in a strong tecchnical foundation. She most recently performed with the award winning choir the Tallis Scholars in a Carnegie Hall masterclass Venetian Voices. Opera and baroque singing experiences include The International Rameau Ensemble in London, The Fairy Queen and Le Carnaval Masquerade at the Madison Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, and the Baroque Festival at Queens College, lead performances with the Harvard Early Music Society and Lowell House Opera in Cambridge, and performing in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria as the Boston Early Music Festival soprano young artist in 2015, as well as weddings, funerals, and other church events.
Andrea Loretz-Frey, Andrea received her Masters of Music in Opera Performance from Boston Conservatory of Music and a BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She has performed for over 35 years throughout the East Coast, US and Europe. Andrea continues performing, which includes her greatest passion for 'crossover improvisation'.
Andrea specializes in teaching private lessons to youngsters, teens and adult students at all vocal levels and performing experiences.
Andrea’s private lessons and group workshops for singers are always unique, preparing singers for both conventional and non-traditional, innovative performance routes. She has taught for over 25 years in the Boston area, throughout Massachusetts and New York,
(www.AndreaLoretz-Frey.com)
Andrea has been teaching voice and music directing with NESPA since 2017.
Andrea is the Founder, Co-Director, and Performance Artist with Improvelocity
(www.improvelocity.com) and has studied with Robert Honeysucker and Elizabeth Vrenios.
Andrea is ,additionally, a Reiki practitioner- having spent over five years involved with hospice care, and greatly enjoys Beekeeping.
Andrea specializes in teaching private lessons to youngsters, teens and adult students at all vocal levels and performing experiences.
Andrea’s private lessons and group workshops for singers are always unique, preparing singers for both conventional and non-traditional, innovative performance routes. She has taught for over 25 years in the Boston area, throughout Massachusetts and New York,
(www.AndreaLoretz-Frey.com)
Andrea has been teaching voice and music directing with NESPA since 2017.
Andrea is the Founder, Co-Director, and Performance Artist with Improvelocity
(www.improvelocity.com) and has studied with Robert Honeysucker and Elizabeth Vrenios.
Andrea is ,additionally, a Reiki practitioner- having spent over five years involved with hospice care, and greatly enjoys Beekeeping.
Jess Chann, Jess Chann is currently enrolled in a dual-degree program at the esteemed Berklee College of Music to earn her B.A. in Music Education and Vocal Performance. Although she specializes in voice, she has nine years (and counting) of experience performing live on Bb and bass clarinet, alto and tenor saxophone, and piano in various ensembles.
Born and raised in the Greater Boston area, Jess has had ample opportunities to learn and perform a diverse array of genres and styles ranging from classical soprano pieces to soulful R&B, pop, and rock songs. She performed as both vocalist and instrumentalist throughout her years in the Lynnfield Music Program, participating in Chorus, Concert Band, Pit Orchestra for the annual musical theater productions, Funk Band, Jazz Band, Rock Ensemble, and most notably: as an auditioned member of the 2019 All-State MMEA Festival chorus at the famed Boston Symphony Hall.
As a self-taught pianist and multi-instrumentalist, Jess greatly encourages versatility in musicianship—any type of music her students could possibly wish to learn, she will always enthusiastically give them the technical and emotional guidance to make it happen.
She has always looked up to her various music educators—They all played a huge part in shaping her overall development as a human being; and the things they taught her—both music and life-related—gave her purpose and inspiration to work towards doing the same for generations after her.