Whether you are a new or long-time member of VSNATS, a prospective member, or simply a singer looking for a teacher in the greater Phoenix and surrounding area, we welcome you to our website, and to this year’s events. Best wishes for a rewarding academic year, and thank you for your interest and participation in VSNATS!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

March 10-13, 2025: Matt Edwards Workshop 

Matt Edwards – Shenandoah University

Dr Kristie Janczyk, pianist

Musical Theatre and CM Workshop https://www.edwardsvoice.com/info

Matt Edwards is a vocal genius! His methods will help you improve singers from all styles:) He’s also super approachable and is happy to explain his exercises and the reasons for them. He started the legendary Shenandoah Institute for Commercial Singing, and it has been a success from its founding:) Don’t miss his event, it will reinvigorate your teaching and your own singing. -Abigail Kimball

Next Gen Recital Hall (formally My First Piano Recital Hall)

1818 E Southern Ave Suite 5, Mesa, AZ 85204

 Matt Edwards – Mapping the Larynx

Matt Edwards – Mapping the Vocal Track

NATS Teachers and their students: $140 (one parent of a teen may observe for free). 

Family rate for students of a NATS teachers $240 (2 parents and teen(s), or one parent and more than one child). 

Non NATS Teachers and Students: $240. 

NEW: Single Day Pass (attend one of the three-day workshop days) $70 NATS Teacher/Student, $80 Non-NATS Teacher/Student

Group singing for all! 

Anything Goes by Cole Porter Anything Goes, Oh, What a Beautiful Morning, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. You may bring music for the sing-a-longs, no photocopies allowed, lyric sheets will be provided. 

For additional information or details about the workshop: email

9:30-5:15 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

Ages:  High school and above

• Fee for the workshop:

NATS Teachers and their students: $140 (one parent of a teen may observe for free). Family rate (teens and their parents) or Non NATS Teachers and Students: $240.  No day rate.

• Children’s Masterclass on Monday 3:00-5:00pm – Children singing in the masterclass must be students of NATS Teachers attending the workshop. One parent must come with their child. Sign up on the Google form.

Private lessons Wednesday night and Thursday: Corinne Walker’s home, 1913 N Shelby, Mesa, AZ 85207 – $65 for 25 minutes.  To schedule lessons, sign up on the Google form. Corinne will be finalizing the schedule and collecting payment in advance for private lessons.

April 12, 2025: Honor’s Recital

Back to back recitals TBA. Teachers can submit names of students to sing on special Honor Recitals throughout the Valley.  Each teacher may recommend 2-4 students,  $25 fee, pianists will be provided (students may opt to bring their own pianists).  Teachers will help organize the recitals and find churches or other spaces to hold the concerts. Not available to Non-NATS Teachers 

Contact Corinne Walker if willing to help.

 

May 3, 2025: Melissa Solomon – The Inner Voice

9:00-11:30am

The Inner Voice Workshop will address self talk, performance anxiety, self judgment, and the way we think about and teach confidence, both for our students and for ourselves as teachers and as people. We will discuss the way we see ourselves and how that relates to singing and our interactions and connections with others.

Learn about Melissa Solomon

($10 for non-NATS teachers)