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Elise
Letourneau sings
and plays the
piano,
flute, bass
flute,
and melodica. She was selected for inclusion on the Pennsylvania
Performing Arts on Tour
artist roster.
She has an active performance schedule and has performed throughout the
Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and throughout Ontario.
Elise has taught songwriting workshops, voice
workshops, and piano classes at the college level. She enjoys a full and
diverse piano and voice
instruction practice. She is an
instructor at Alcorn Music Studios.
Her
recordings
include a CD of jazz standards and poetry called “Pas de Deux” with pianist
Harry Pickens, and a CD of original songs entitled “I Will Sing for You”, both
on the Peace Cafe Records label. Additional writing includes
published articles
about songwriting and singing, as well as a
poetry
book called To Flirt With Words.
In addition to songwriting, Elise
composes and arranges choral and piano
works, has written commercials and theme music for cable TV, and was
commissioned to compose music for an original dance production. She has worked
as a
staff
vocalist,
recording commercial jingles.
Elise has
performed and recorded with a variety
of artists including saxophonist Oliver
Lake, pianist Harry Pickens, drummer Roger Humphries, Grammy-nominated jazz
vocalist Janet Lawson, performance-poet Huang Xiang, consummate jazzman Bob
Dorough, and singer-songwriter Paula Cole.
She received her undergraduate and graduate
training at Boston's Berklee
College of Music and Lesley College in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Currently, her
creative work
includes composing for an album of solo voice works, as well as choral works
incorporating the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
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