Wendy Jones

Style: Pop; Jazz

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Title: Voice Instructor

Bio:

Wendy is a professional vocalist, arranger, songwriter, producer, and commercial voice specialist. She has appeared on stages from New York to Tokyo and has performed with artists such as NEA Jazz Master Jamey Aebersold, The New York Voices, legendary jazz guitarist Howard Alden, jazz violinist Christian Howes, the Page Brothers, Crystal Gale, and has sung backup for the alternative hip hop group Deltron 3030 and for Las Vegas Elvis Impersonator, Donnie Edwards. She has appeared at Club Bonafide in NYC, the Jazz Arts Initiative, the Mountain Oasis Music Festival, the Spartanburg Jazz Festival, Our World Festival, and the Django Reinhardt Festival in Asheville, NC

In addition to singing with her own jazz quartet, she is the featured vocalist with the Asheville Jazz Orchestra, the Ole ’74 big Band, the Russ Wilson Orchestra, the Michael Jefry Stevens Trio, the Richard Shulman Group and is often a guest vocalist with the Greenville Jazz Collective big band.

She has recorded her own projects as well as with Darmon Meader of the New York Voices, the Richard Shulman Group, Michael Jefry Stevens, and Steve Watson.

Wendy has served on the executive boards for the North Carolina Chapter and the Mid-Atlantic Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and as a mentor teacher as part of the NATS Mentored Teaching program. She a member of ASCAP, a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMY'S), Actors' Equity Association, and the Jazz Education Network.

Wendy received a B.M. and an M.M. in vocal Performance from Appalachian State University and then joined the voice faculty there where she taught for 8 years before embarking on a full time, professional singing/acting career. Having sung with Opera Carolina, Appalachian Opera Theatre, and the Brevard Music Center Opera, her favorite roles include Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore, Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief, and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte. An accomplished Equity actor as well as singer, Wendy has appeared in leading roles on stage of many professional theatres throughout the U.S. including Florida Repertory Theatre, Flat Rock Playhouse, Little Theatre on the Square, Temple Theatre, and Blowing Rock Stage Company in roles such as Miss Sandra in All Shook Up, Brenda in Smokey Joe's Cafe, Luisa in The Fantasticks, Fiona in Brigadoon, and Eliza in My Fair Lady.

Wendy has also appeared as a soloist with the The Symphony of the Mountains, the Western Piedmont Symphony, the Asheville Choral Society, and the Carolina Concert Choir in works such as Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, John Corgliano's Fern Hill, Bach's Magnificat, and Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor.

She was one of nine singers chosen after extensive auditions in North America, Europe, and Australia to appear at Tokyo Disney in the Broadway review Encore!

From 1991-2008 she was a frequent headliner and lead production singer/dancer on cruise ships and it was during this time that she wrote Everything is Rosie (a one woman show celebrating the life of Rosemary Clooney) and Ladies and Gentlemen (a cabaret show celebrating the pioneers of traditional pop music such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, and Ella Fitzgerald). Each of the shows premiered in central Florida at the Winter Park Playhouse in 2009 and 2010 respectively. In 2021 she debuted her show "Sophisticated Lady" A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald" to enthusiastic reviews. Wendy has always enjoyed working behind the scenes as much performing. She has served as director and choreographer for numerous regional theatre productions throughout the southeast as well as the director of opera while she was on the adjunct faculty at Brevard College. She also served as the director of the two Award Winning vocal jazz ensembles while an adjunct at Western Carolina University: Perfect Fifth and the Catamount Singers. She was the director of Studio 18 at University of North Carolina - Asheville and she formed and directed the high school jazz vocal ensemble, Vagabond Voices, at Flat Rock Playhouse during the fall of 2016. “The singer’s distinctive and sometimes-haunting voice proves to be very effective no matter what the mood of the piece. She gives sensitivity to each selection that she interprets and displays a complete understanding of the lyrics while swinging at every tempo.” - Scott Yanow, Jazz Journalist and Music Critic (Los Angeles, CA)

(Wendy) "possesses a rich voice and that ineffable quality that allows certain performers to glow from within. She dazzled every time she was onstage." - Nancy Stetson, Naples Daily News - Naples, Florida

Voice Type: Soprano

Music Styles Taught: Pop; Jazz

Availability: I am available as a performer; I am currently accepting private students; I am available as a clinician or presenter

Contact Information

Studio

Western Carolina University/Brevard College/Private Residence
Hendersonville, NC
USA 28739

TEL: 828-699-7171
MOBILE: 8286997171

Web: https://wljonesvoice.mymusicstaff.com

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