Cynthia Wunsch

Current

Voice and Piano Teacher at Cynthia K. Wunsch, M.M.
Singer and Actress (Self-employed)

Past

artiste-en-résidence at Centre Europeén de Poésie d'Avignon
Tutor at El Centro College
Founder at DA CAPO (Dallas Area Choral Arts Performing Organization)

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Education

Private Study
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Private Study

Masarykova univerzita v Brne
Janáckova akademie múzických umení v Brne
University of North Texas
W.T. White HS

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Industry

Music

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Cynthia Wunsch’s Summary

I have more than 20 years' experience in teaching and performing, a Master's degree in Music with a specialty in Baroque and pre-Baroque music, and 7 years' experience in Europe as a teacher and performer. In piano and voice, I teach exclusively classical music and my teaching is limited to 16 hours per week, so that I can give each of my students my personal attention and have time to do research to correct technical deficiencies and develop repertoire. Instruction also includes attention to music history and theory, in order that my students become well-rounded performers with a thorough grounding in the field.

Cynthia Wunsch’s Specialties:

Baroque and pre-Baroque music, in keyboard instruments and voice, vocal health for speakers, call center employees, sales people and anyone whose voice is vital to their work.

Cynthia Wunsch’s Experience

Voice and Piano Teacher

Cynthia K. Wunsch, M.M.

(Music industry)

August 1990 — Present (19 years 4 months)

I specialize in taking ordinary students and helping them realize their full potential as musicians. Students are taught to perform in a healthy, relaxed manner to avoid injury and to progress to performance level as quickly as possible. My personal sheet music collection comprises over eight million pages, and I have borrowing privileges in libraries, historical societies, and collections all over the United States and Europe. All of this music is available to students at no charge. In addition, I provide advice on auditioning, performing, and how to realize a financial return from lessons.

Piano lessons:

Sightreading and playing classical pieces by prominent composers from all eras, as well as scales and technical exercises, are incorporated into lessons from the first day. Students are accepted from age 4 depending on ability, with no upper age limit.

Voice lessons:

Students are taught to produce sound in a healthy and relaxed manner. Once that is firmly established, the applications to music and technical exercises follow very quickly, allowing the natural beauty of their voices and their range of expression to be showcased in their performances. Younger students are accepted according to their maturity, with no upper age limit.

I also work with people who use their voices in their work: call center employees, sales professionals, ministers, teachers, college professors and public speakers. Since we use the same voice for singing and speaking, the principles of healthy vocal function apply just as much to people whose professional lives depend on their speaking voice as those principles do to singers.
Singer and Actress

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Performing Arts industry)

January 1988 — Present (21 years 11 months)

A singer and actress, I have performed in the USA, Germany, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia. I am a lyric mezzo-soprano, and can sing in Czech, French, German, Italian and Latin. In addition to numerous other engagements, I performed in 1994 at Divadlo Bolka Polivky in Brno, and in 1999 and 2000 at both the Fête de la Musique in Avignon and the Festival de Musique Sacrée in Marseilles, as well as performing in 1999 at the Theatre Festival in Avignon. Most recently I worked at Middlefaire renaissance faire as a cast member, Tyesphaine d'Avignon, in October 2007.
artiste-en-résidence

Centre Europeén de Poésie d'Avignon

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Performing Arts industry)

March 1998 — June 2000 (2 years 4 months)

http://www.freewheel.com/poesieavignon/
Tutor

El Centro College

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 1988 — May 1993 (5 years 5 months)

Tutor of many college subjects, including writing, art history, and music
Founder

DA CAPO (Dallas Area Choral Arts Performing Organization)

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Performing Arts industry)

1987 — 1990 (3 years )

Madrigal performing group

Cynthia Wunsch’s Education

Private Study

Voice 1997 — 1997

Activities and Societies:

Studied with Debra Allen
Texas A&M University-Commerce

M.M. , Music , 1990 — 1996

3.96 GPA, major in Voice, minor in Piano, specialization in Early Music
Brenda Black/White Prize for Poetry

Activities and Societies:

Early Music Ensemble,
North East Texas Symphony Orchestra,
North East Texas Symphony Orchestra Board
Private Study

Music 1993 — 1995

Studied voice with Sylvia Kodetová (retired from the Janáček Opera) and piano with Hana Oherová.
Masarykova univerzita v Brne

Slavonic Studies 1994 — 1994

Summer Institute of Slavonic Studies
Janáckova akademie múzických umení v Brne

Voice 1993 — 1993

Summer Program - studied with Anna Barová
University of North Texas

B.A. , Psychology (as Pre-med) , 1976 — 1983
W.T. White HS

1972 — 1974

Activities and Societies:

Quill and Scroll, Choir

Additional Information

Cynthia Wunsch’s Websites:

Cynthia Wunsch’s Interests:

historical longsword, historical dance, historical re-enactments, fiction and non-fiction writing, herb gardening

Cynthia Wunsch’s Groups:

Centre Europeén de Poésie d'Avignon (http://www.freewheel.com/poesieavignon),
Schola Saint George (http://www.scholasaintgeorge.org),
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church (http://www.orthodox.net), (currently Tsarina of Public Relations),
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