Mezzo

Monday 4:50-5:35pm, 45 min - $140 per term at Stage Door Studios

A 45 min group singing class for Intermediate aged students. 

Stage Door's Mezzo Group Singing Class offers a fun and engaging blend of singing instruction and music education.
Our aim is to establish a safe and inclusive environment for self-expression, honour student voices, and learn the basics of performance and music theory.  This class will see students dive into essential skills like sight-singing and music theory alongside learning rewarding and more challenging pieces of music. Through lively lessons, students will explore musical notation, key signatures, time signatures, intervals, and harmonies. The class will sing a variety of repertoire, taking into account the interests of the group. New and more challenging repertoire will boost vocal technique and musical expression, all while preparing singers to take their voices to the next level. 

There are many social-emotional and health benefits to group singing. Among them include fostering a sense of belonging, community, well-being, and healthy vocal tone. In addition, the creative expression and human connection inherent to group singing can promote greater engagement and result in lasting friendships. Here is a wonderful overview of the many advantages to singing with others: Benefits of Singing 

Mezzo students will rehearse towards Singing Recitals in the middle and at the end of the year. 
(See below for more information about Stage Door's 2025 Singing Recitals). 

Students are asked to bring along a bottle of water, pencil, & black folder for music.

Homework for Mezzo

Monday 18 August

A message from the tutor: 

Our focus in class this week was EXPRESSING EMOTION & STORY TELLING WHILE SINGING. 
We learnt how to formulate our own story for a song that we can understand and convey to the audience.

We talked through our current song 'Rise Up' line by line, agreeing and listing what emotions we (as the singer) are going through at each moment of the song. 
We sang through small portions of our song testing different emotions to see what fitted best.

Next week we will focus on finishing the song so we can add another song to our term 3 repetoire. 
Homework this week is to keep up the practice at home of “Something in the Water” with our percussion work, and to know all of the words off by heart for “Rise Up” by next week!

A reminder to keep bringing all your lyrics and resources to every lesson. Even once we know the lyrics we will keep referring to them and making in notes and changes.

Congrats on an amazing lesson, there was some really cool acting going on this week!
Have a great week,
Lily 

Important Notices for Mezzo

TERM THREE

Throughout the year our Mezzo Group Singing Class will work on developing their vocal technique and growing in confidence as they sing different songs. Ultimately, students perform songs at our Mid Year and End of Year Recitals (scroll down for more information about our 2025 End of Year Recital). 

At our Mid-Year Singing Recital in June Mezzo students performed Term One song 'Pepeha', together with Term Two song 'The Best Day of My Life'.

The class will be working on a number of fun new songs in Term Three. 
The first of these is 'Something in the Water', by Brooke Fraser. 

Parents and Students are asked to keep an eye on this page, where updates, practice resources and homework notes will be regularly added throughout the year. 

Song lyrics and practice tracks for all Mezzo songs can be downloaded from this webpage for practicing at home. Click on the song title listed on the right hand side of the page, under Resources (above the tutor pic) to access these.

Resources

Mezzo Class Important Dates Technique and Warm Up Exercises for Singers Term One Song Resources Term Two Song Resources Something In The Water Rise Up Dynamics

Team members

Lily Isaac

Lily Isaac

2025 Recitals

Throughout the year our Group Singing Classes take part in two public Recital Performances - one mid year, and the other at the end of the year. The Recitals will be held at Stage Door Studios and give students the chance to prepare for, and perform in front of an audience, and show whānau and friends what they have been working on during classes. 

At our 2025 Mid-Year Singing Recital on Friday 13 June our fab Mezzo students performed Term One song 'Pepeha', together with Term Two song 'The Best Day of My Life'.

SAVE THE DATE!
Stage Door's 2025 End of Year Singing Recital is scheduled for Friday, December 12, at 6pm