Zoe Vandermeer, a prize-winning graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is a voice expert with twenty years of experience as a professional singer, voice trainer, speaker, audio/video producer, composer and music director. She works with kids' voices, singers, speakers, voiceover artists, actors, vocal rehab clients, ministers, teachers, film, t.v., and radio talent. Her students range from young aspiring talent to professional recording artists, performing a variety of musical styles from Broadway to Bossa Nova, Classical and Pop.
Ms. Vandermeer has been teaching voice and piano in California, Connecticut and New York City, was a faculty member at the Santa Barbara City College, and more recently at the Hartt School Community Division, where she was a recipient of the Faculty Development Fund, and gave a masterclass at the Summer Vocal Institute in 2007. In California, she began and ran an afterschool music program at the Beacon Day School, a private school in Oakland. She has been a music director for the Alameda Children's Musical Theatre, Dublin Children's Theatre, Danbury Methodist Church and is currently the music director at St. John's Episcopal Church in New Milford. Zoe Vandermeer is a member of the New York Singing Teachers Association(
www.nyst.org) and the Music Teachers National Association (
www.mtna.org).
Ms. Vandermeer has written several articles for Classical Singer Magazine (
www.classicalsinger.com) as well as the Swiss publication
'Harpa'. As a poet, one of her poems was published in Spain's
Flor de Card.
In her capacity as classical recording engineer and producer, she gave presentations at the annual Classical Singer Convention in 2005 (New York City) and 2006 (Philadelphia). In California, she gave a series of presentations on Vocal Health at the Rossmoor Retirement Community in Walnut Creek, several of which were aired on Channel 13 TV.
As a professional singer, Ms. Vandermeer has toured internationally, recorded for Koch International, KachinaMusiK and Voce Classics. Ms. Vandermeer was winner of the Bay Area Vocal Artists Competition, and was recipient of the Emerging Artists Fund. She was a finalist in the London Young Artists Early Music Competition and the Wilfred Laurier Concret Aria Competition in Canada. Her work
'Zoe's Musical Fairy Tale, Upon A Time' has been compared to Phantom of the Opera, Into the Woods and Secret Garden. Her solo album
'Angel's Wine', in which she accompanies her singing on baroque triple harp, won 2nd place for Best Classical Album in 2002 by JPF and was favorably reviewed by the UK Lute Society Journal.
As a composer, Ms. Vandermeer was commissioned to compose
'The Enchanted Nightingale' in which she performed with the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Oakland Symphony Chamber Chorus and the internationally recognized Sonos Handbell Ensemble (
www.sonos.org). Her work
'In Man's Heart is a Little Room' was premiered with the San Francisco Sinfonietta, in which she sang the soprano solo.
When Ms. Vandermeer is not teaching, performing, composing or recording, she spends her spare time with her two horses in northwest CT.
Ms. Vandermeer is represented by James Greening-Valenzuela.
www.zoevandermeer.com www.jgvmgmt.org
Zoe in the Media
Moray Firth Radio Scotland, KUSF, KGPR, KCSR, WFIU, KVON, KSRC, KKUP, KWMR
Channel 13 TV, Walnut Creek
Classical Singer Magazine
Litchfield County Times
New Milford News-Times
Danbury News-Times
Swiss publication
'Harpa'
Spain's
'Flor de Card'
Speech Clients
Bay Yacht and Shipping (speech training for foreign speaking customer service employee)
Ghirardelli Associates (presentations)
Port Authority Oakland (voice consultation)
Benevolent Technologies (presentations)
Alison Fenton, Author (marketing her novel)
Network for Youth Development (presentations)
Alexandria, minister UCC (preaching)
Ruth (vocal rehab after stroke)
Meridian Deployment (presentations)
Rossmoor Retirement Community
Piedmont Gardens
IRS
Harbor Bay Club
UC Berkeley
Katya Rivera, Theatre Director, Shotgun Players, Berkeley
Audio/Video ClientsClassical Singer Convention, New York City, 2005
Classical Singer Convention, Philadelphia, 2006
Jensen Foundation
Chelsea Opera
Institute for American Indian Studies
State Farm Insurance
John Birch, Consultant
New York Metro Vocal Arts Ensemble
Nicole Piccolomini, opera singer at Berlin Staatsoper
Imajica Project, Brian Kerns opera composer
